Peter Zelinski

Peter Zelinski Editorial Director

Aerospace

Video: Milling Titanium 6-4 Efficiently Without a Heavy Machine

This video of machining titanium at a fast metal removal rate shows the effect of constant-engagement-angle milling.

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The Part as Art

A display case of sample parts is typical for contract shops. D1 Mold & Tool goes much further.

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Basics

When to Mill Keeps Changing

Technology improvements steadily expand the range of tool and die parts that justify high speed machining.

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Stimulus, One Year Later

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been tried. Now try happiness.

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The Factory Fallacy

What's in a word?

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Saving Labor Also Safeguards Labor

A manufacturer that aims to expand its workforce, without a high risk of layoffs later, sees pallet cells that can run through the night as being key to this goal.

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Turn/Mill

High-Volume Alternative To Machining Centers

Transfer machines that are flexible rather than dedicated can run large quantities without dedicating labor or floorspace. (Includes video.)

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Five-Axis

Tool Certainty

For GKN Aerospace to overcome tool-related variations on its largest milling machines, it had to confront error sources that go unnoticed in many shops.

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The Responsiveness Robot

For this lean shop dedicated to low-inventory kanban relationships with customers, the most critical measure of efficiency revealed the value of robotic loading.

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A JIT Generation?

The Millennial mini-boom bodes well for U.S. manufacturing.

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Die/Mold

What’s Ahead For The North American Auto Industry

Here are highlights from a presentation by an auto-industry observer at Makino’s recent technology expo.

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Straight to Sand

Through direct CNC machining of molds and cores, this supplier of cast and machined parts skips the pattern-making step that would otherwise be fundamental to casting. The result is weeks of lead-time savings for complex parts that are needed in a hurry.

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SGS H-Carb
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IMTS 2024
Schunk
Mastercam
Methods