Matt Danford Former Senior Editor
Lean Manufacturing Begins With Layout, Commitment
Sustainably streamlining production of a varied mix of low-volume work depends not only on a strategy tailored for job shops, but also on human drive and enthusiasm.
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Skills Training Strengthens Shops, Communities
A poverty-fighting nonprofit serves regional manufacturers as both a pipeline of fresh recruits and an incubator of existing talent.
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Closing the Loop on Data-Driven Manufacturing
Hexagon’s annual conference highlighted strides in expanding beyond metrology to smart factory connectivity.
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New Tech, New Talent at GF Machining
This year’s annual open house marked the debut of not only a new series of wire EDMs, but also an apprenticeship program designed to serve as a pipeline of application and service engineers for years to come.
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Cutting Edge Control Speeds Cross-Hole Deburring
As opposed to springs or other mechanical means of driving tool inserts into hole intersections, leveraging pneumatic or hydraulic pressure provides a means of process control beyond feed and speed adjustments.
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Making Connections at Innovation Days
Among other highlights, this year’s iteration of DMG MORI’s annual open house event showcased the company’s latest efforts to connect traditionally disparate machining operations, both in the physical sense and the virtual sense.
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From Universal Tool Clamping to Automated Presetting
The opening of Rego-Fix's new U.S. headquarters caps a long series of developments in precision tool clamping technology.
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One Setup Unrolls Six Linear Errors
Consisting of only two components, this linear axis calibration device measures error in all six degrees of freedom—including roll—directly and in real time.
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Coolant’s Impact on Face Milling Aluminum
Testing shows that understanding the interplay among cutting speed, tool wear and cutting power can lead to more informed evaluation of metalworking fluids and more predictable machining.
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Video: Pez Dispensers and Porcupines
Automation takes work. In this case, the challenge was ensuring zero-defect production without slowing the two-part-per-second through-feed grinding process.
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Adding Context to Advanced Milling
For all its focus on machines, cutters, parameters and tool paths, an expo hosted by Methods Machine Tools demonstrated that competitive hard milling increasingly requires looking beyond the workzone and even beyond traditional machining.
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Putting the “Feed” in Zero-Defect Through-Feed Grinding
An automated grinding, inspection and packaging cell churns out two fragile automotive parts per second with zero defects.
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