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High 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.
Read MoreMoving Parts, Moving Data, Keeping People
This Plant's labor-saving automation includes hardware for updating CNC offsets to adjust for gradual process changes. When the plant adopted its automated system, management thought carefully about the impact on staffing.
Read MoreRoom To Maneuver
An article this month (Moving Parts, Moving People, Keeping People) took me to a region of the country I had never visited before. I knew what to expect, however—a straight shot by interstate from the airport to my destination, chain hotels and restaurants all along the way, and congenial, helpful people practically anywhere I stopped.
Read MoreDeep Thinking
A job shop that specializes in gundrilling points out the special requirements of machining deep holes.
Read MoreAddition Through Subtraction
The American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont, has historic machine tools on display. So does the Cincinnati History Museum.
Read MoreAutomation's Extended Reach
The experience of a Windsor mold shop offers an object lesson in machine shop automation. In an interconnected process, automating one aspect of the process offered benefits beyond what the initial planning had led the shop to expect.
Read MoreAdding Value In America's Future
Shop owners worried about manufacturing in America often express two concerns. One is personal: Will my own shop survive? The other is broader: Can America still thrive with so much manufacturing being sent to other countries? The concerns are linked.
Read MoreSix Advantages Of Horizontal High Speed Machining
Large monolithic aircraft parts may be machined more productively one at a time instead of three at once.
Read MoreCash For Quality
A small change in the process can dramatically affect the performance of an expensive piece of equipment. Shops that know this look for ways to refine their process variables.
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