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Showing 141 – 150 of 170 resultsAnyone who has experiences applying lean practices realizes that the focus of lean is on the elimination of waste, which can reside in any process in any company or industry.
Fermer Precision machines a variety of precision parts from aluminum, cast iron, powdered metal, carbon steel and low-carbon steel for automobiles, firearms, medical products and train brake systems. The company relies on a Mori Seiki SV-500 and two OKK KVC 600 vertical machining centers for drilling, reaming and chamfering operations.
A machine shop in a new cancer treatment center produces components to precisely guide proton radiation to eliminate its target—cancerous tumors.
A laser edge finder offers a direct method for locating workpiece edges that can save setup time.
Bill Gibbs gratefully attributes the origins of GibbsCAM CNC programming software to the late Steve Jobs and the Apple Macintosh computer. The Mac’s graphical user interface was inspirational for Bill.
This shop finds the process practical, productive and predictable, an indispensable technology that supports all of its manufacturing capability.
Adopting the latest machining technologies is key for shops to accurately and repeatably create medical components. Swiss-style lathes offer a good combination of precision and repeatability for these applications thanks in part to their guide-bushing design, which provides support for the workpieces very close to the cut.
This mold maker benefits from a 3D CAD/CAM package this mold maker uses pays off by speeding the design of new dies and molds, as well as other ways.
There is something different about the molds this shop builds. This puts EDM in a whole new light. These molds are not designed to produce plastic parts, like the typical injection mold. Rather, these molds produce parts in metals such as stainless steel and other alloys.
