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Seeing More For CNC Multi-Spindles
Motor technology, machine design and software possibilities all improve the economies of these sophisticated high-volume machines.
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Hard Milling With Tandem Toolholding
A combination of toolholding choices lets this die shop get the most performance from its small-diameter tools.
Read MoreTechnology Makes People More Significant
The staff of this magazine struggles with something basic: what to call people who work directly with CNC machining technology. We tend to default to what the shop in question calls them.
Read MoreLights-Out With A Lighter Commitment
For this integrated flexible pallet cell, the machines and the pallet system came from different suppliers. The shop is not locked into any supplier for adding machining centers later.
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Rotational Motion Lets Turning Compete With Grinding
Rotational turning provides machined surfaces smooth enough to let turning compete with grinding and polishing.
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Virtual Machining In The Real World
Using software that models machining passes, a Cessna plant unlocks real capacity by finding better parameters for its existing NC programs.
Read MoreWe Are The People; Companies Are Machines
Companies are not nice. No doubt many will readily agree.
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A Subscription To Spindle Speeds
A peculiar characteristic of machine tools is that they can't be put to use until the user performs a critical final assembly step-installing the cutting tool in the machine.
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Everything Changes
Through a sweeping transition to high speed machining, a Maryland contract shop realizes its goal of same-day, "in by 9, out by 5" turnaround.
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Cutting Tools For High Speed Milling Of Aluminum
Go with the flow—chip flow, that is. The uninterrupted flow of the soft aluminum chip determines the design of the end mills that Metlfab uses.
Read MoreHigh Speed Machining: The Next Decade
About 10 years ago, Modern Machine Shop published a special issue on high speed machining—the first of what would become a succession of special issues on this topic. Machining centers with higher spindle speeds were becoming broadly accessible then, and something seemed to be happening.
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Move The Program Instead Of The Part
A complex five-axis part with hard-to-reach datums is machined in two setups instead of eight, thanks to a process that rewrites the tool paths to match the part's position.
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