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A Surplus Of Rationalization
Remember when "envy" used to be a bad thing? This goes way back. but it may surprise you to learn that envy was once taken so seriously, it was listed as one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Plunge Roughing Right Now
This mold shop makes plunge roughing work using the kind of machine and the kind of tooling it’s been using all along. In other words, this shop achieved a faster metal removal rate just by changing direction.
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Where Dry Milling Makes Sense
Liquid coolant offers advantages unrelated to temperature. Forced air is the fluid of choice in this shop...but even so, conventional coolant can't be eliminated entirely.
Read MoreBig Picture (TV And Otherwise)
Back when the average person wasn't guaranteed enough to eat, to be visibly well-fed was a sign of wealth. We still tend to think of "fat" and "wealthy" as synonyms, in fact.
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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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