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Showing 321 – 330 of 352 resultsLeading machine shops share signature traits. This year’s Top Shops benchmarking survey reveals what some of those traits are.
Thread milling and tapping are two methods for machining threads in a hole. Tapping is more popular, but thread milling has several advantages that might be important in your application.
To guarantee that components for a new helicopter could be readily produced, the company looked at the capabilities of available machine tools in the market first, and then finalized the design of the components accordingly. It created a Precision Components Technology Center to embody this concept as a process for R&D prototype work. What has emerged is a flexible production model that can be duplicated at its other facilities.
Few manufacturing companies rely on ballbar testing to maintain machine tool accuracy as thoroughly as Silfex. Now, advanced training and a move to a Renishaw QC20-W wireless system have enabled the company to take the benefits of ballbar testing to a higher level.
Advanced grinding equipment gives this shop the flexibility and automation it needs to serve customers with either rapid-response or high-volume jobs.
CNC may bring trunnion systems to a generation of contract manufacturers unfamiliar with this type of machine.
Turn-mill machines have made this prototype shop competitive for large-volume orders too.
A grinding machine is not a machining center, but it can sometimes take on milling and drilling (or even turning) to make the overall process more efficient.
This shop’s attention to process improvement led it to recognize and appreciate the largest source of unrealized potential in the company: the employees. Now, employee improvement is a priority in the plant manager’s role, and training has become a systemized part of the process.
Toronto aerospace shops improve productivity with faster five-axis machining centers.
