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Basic Math For Ballnose Tools
The ballnose end mill is a special sort of tool. Its ability to mill up and down the contours of complex surfaces makes it invaluable to mold shops and other makers of 3D forms. And yet, the tool is lacking in a capability one might take for granted in other cutters: the ability to machine a flat surface.
Read MoreCutting Costs With Cutting Tools: Instead Of Life Or Price, Look To Capability
A shop that wants to win cost savings from its cutting tool purchases is likely to take two factors into account: tool life and tool price. But that approach might be flawed.
Read MoreYou Can Automate More Than You Think
This shop expedites 3D milling work by reducing its dependence on employees for all of the information-related tasks that occur before the machining center can start to cut.
Read MoreCosts And Consequences
How good is your shop at connecting its purchasing decisions to the operations that those decisions affect? An article this month (Cutting Costs With Cutting Tools: Instead Of Life Or Price, Look To Capability) offers some representative cost figures to illustrate a straightforward point. Namely, tool life and tool price generally do not have a large impact on the cost of machining, but tool capability does.
Read MoreBuying American And The U.S. Military
One argument put forward in favor of direct federal intervention on behalf of U. S.
Read MoreSurpassing The Speed Limit In CGI
Advancing rotary-insert machining may have implications for other difficult materials as well.
Read MoreUnderstanding Surface Location Error
Change your speed by a few hundred rpm and the tool’s effective cutting radius may change.
Read MoreLending A Hand To The Handbook
A software calculator offers speed, feed and depth of cut values that recognize the distinctive characteristics of a high speed cut.
Read MoreHigh Speed Machining = Automation
Strategic use of labor, not the speed itself, is the point of HSM.
Read MoreMicro Milling At 1/2 Million RPM
Researchers aim to develop a spindle that accounts for the differences between macro and micro machining.
Read MoreThinking Outside The Cut
A Silicon Valley manufacturer's survival strategy involves closer relationships with customers, and high speed machining is crucial to this. The shop pays particular attention to the process factors that affect high speed machining before the cut takes place.
Read MoreHow Important Is Technology?
The first year we devoted a special issue to high speed machining was 1997. The climate could not be more different today.
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