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Air-Powered High Speed Spindle
Two different designs for this spindle allow it to be mounted on a lathe's turret or slide (like an add-on live-tool spindle) or mounted in a machining center's toolholder. In either case, the spindle is capable of 30,000 rpm. When driven by an 80-psig shop air supply, the spindle can deliver 75 W of cutting power.
Read MoreAn Odyssey Right Here
Next year will be 2001. That year also appears in the title of a famous movie.
Read MoreKeep Your People Producing
As you look at any of the machine tools on display at IMTS, you may ask yourself, Does my shop have the work it will take to keep this machine cutting? Don't answer yet. Instead, pause to consider whether that's the right question.
Read MoreEDM vs. Milling In Die/Mold Machining
In many die and mold shops, the choice between ram EDM and CNC milling is far less clear than it used to be. Changing technology is changing the rules.
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Production Without Paper
Giving operators electronic access to job information was the first step. Letting operators electronically refine that information came next.
Read MoreWhat The Machine Tool Means
All of our "careers" result from some combination of aspiration and accident. The aspiration part, for me, was to make my living as a writer.
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CNC Hole Making Without A Programmer
With NC programs created automatically, this shop goes straight from the designer to the machine tool.
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Cutting The Cost Of Custom Machines
There is a gap between the price of one of this builder's custom machines and the maximum price that even many large contract shops can afford to pay for capital equipment. But that gap is getting smaller.
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Machining The Majority Of Job Shop Parts
This builder has introduced a compact vertical machining center and a compact lathe, both with the same full CNC functionality as larger machines.
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Agile Or Lean?
Either way, machining centers may make sense. When CNC machines are used for high-volume work, this question comes first.
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What's Possible At 10,000 RPM
High-value work doesn’t have to demand a high-cost machine tool.
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Electrode Machining Set Free
These two shops used to mill EDM electrodes on their metal cutting machines, but they have now shifted the work to graphite machining centers. Both shops say the advantage isn’t just in the cycle time savings, it’s in the inefficiencies they can now overcome.
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