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Showing 311 – 320 of 352 resultsWith its in-house R&D program, this aerospace shop seeks to be a leader, not a follower, on the path to innovation in advanced manufacturing. Finding and embracing a better way to generate tool paths for highly efficient and economical metal removal is a prime example of the value of this program.
One of this aerospace shop’s many specialties is producing ring-shaped parts that are thin-walled, complex, tightly toleranced and made of difficult-to-machine materials such as Inconel, titanium or high-temperature alloys. Turning jet engine parts doesn’t get much tougher than this.
This shop has made incremental changes to its manufacturing processes to meet the changing needs of its medical customers.
This series of turn/mill machines combines the full turning capability of a pure turning center and the full millig capability of a machining center. Design features address critical issues of vibration and heat.
This shop doesn’t know what parts it will machine tomorrow, but it has a good idea who its customers will be well into the future.
Examining this shop's healthy medical machining business shows that both medical components and medical customers require special care.
By eliminating extra steps, a multi-process machine enables a medical manufacturer to streamline its production time and conserve shop space.
Thousands of contract manufacturing shops across North America that produce commodity parts such as shafts, arbors, bearing races, gear splines, and so on, have one problem in common: how to do it faster and less expensively.
A New Hampshire manufacturer spurs growth by expanding the medical segment of its business.
Classic lean manufacturing principles are practically taken as gospel, but benefits can be elusive for manufacturers that produce a variety of parts in low volumes. This shop took a different approach to lean—one aided by software that helped identify a more efficient machine layout based patterns in part routings.
