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Easy Does It
This shop specializing in small-scale parts says successfully machining tiny features into tiny workpieces is less about technology and more about technique.
Read MoreWhy Not Ask Why?
Manufacturing can be downright instructive. The more useful concepts in manufacturing can be applied directly to our own lives. Take the distinction between roughing and finishing, for example. In manufacturing and in life, the key to effectiveness is not necessarily finesse, but knowing where the fine
Read MoreHow To Make Manufacturing Succeed
A machine shop owner turned to me for reassurance that U.S. manufacturing would remain strong. I didn’t know what to tell him. I do have confidence in U.S. manufacturing—plenty of confidence. However, that is not what he really wanted. He was concerned about his own fortunes. The problem was, the specialty machini
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Economies Of Scale
Medical implant work is not just small in terms of workpiece sizes. Lot sizes and lead times can also be small when the product is still under development. To compete for implant work, this shop aims to offer cost savings in the face of all of this smallness.
Read MoreAppreciating 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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