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Appreciating Depreciation
Congress and the president got it right with this year’s changed depreciation rules.
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Turning Is Optional
The part requires only milling and drilling, but it is still run on a lathe. Except for the cutoff tool, all of the turret positions on this lathe hold rotating tools. In other words, turning is not essential for using a lathe effectively. This application illustrates the productive possibilities of a modern turn-mill machine.
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Lending A Hand To The Machining Center
This coolant-operated gripper loads in the spindle like a toolholder, allowing the machining center to lift and move its own workpieces.
Read MoreMachining Megatrends
Here is a question that is as fundamental as the name of this magazine: Just what does a “modern machine shop” look like today?It seems like the right time to ask. Manufacturers were transformed earlier in this decade. Business was lean, and many shops went lean in response.
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Molding Personnel
This mold shop has a full-time employee devoted to nothing but training.
Read MoreAsk The Teacher
I’d like you to contact Ryan Pohl. He is a part of this month’s cover story on Commercial Tool and Die, and he will serve briefly as one of our “experts” accessible through MMS Online.
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Hard Milling By The Numbers
Here are some speeds, feed rates and depths of cut for a productive hard milling process.
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Applying A High Speed Machining Discipline Without The Speed
In this shop, high speed machining makes sense at 4,000 rpm. While the disciplines the shop put in place made a new 15,000-rpm profiler dramatically more productive, high speed machining would have remained valuable even if the new machine never came. Acoording to a co-owner of this shop, high speed machining has no need for speed.
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The Returns On Automation
Machine tool automation, particularly grinding machine automation, offers various returns on investment. Different shops notice different advantages, and sometimes shops overlook important benefits when they are deciding whether to automate.
Read MoreGo To The Source
The concept of “shop rate” is interesting, because you make the most money off of your shop rate when you beat it. A job shop machining a particular part may try a new tool, machine or procedure that lets the shop make the part more efficiently.
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Get Better Before You Get Bigger
Rather than making a major new machine tool purchase just yet, this shop is finding additional capacity on the equipment it already has. What once was a vertical machining center will become a flexible automated production center for unattended machining.
Read MoreThe Parts We Play
Making parts is as much of a people business as any other business is. This may seem counterintuitive.
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