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Whereas his predecessor had left Big Kaiser’s Unilock pallets in the corner, Charlie Mitchell of Andretti Autosport saw that they could help him reduce setup time on his milling machines in an environment where quick turnaround is essential. 

Edge Technologies offers its Scout 320 as an economical magazine bar feeder for feeding round, square and hexagonal barstock to CNC lathes in diameters ranging from 3 to 20 mm and in lengths ranging to 12 ft.

Schunk's Tribos-Mini directly clamps small tool shanks consistently along the entire axis for challenging applications including medical, dental and micro-level parts.

Dynabrade’s air-powered, variable-speed pencil grinder adjusts from 35,000 to 60,000 rpm to suit a variety of precision grinding applications, including deburring, finishing and engraving.

Optimized roughing, also called high-efficiency milling, is an effective way to improve material removal rates and tool life for titanium and hard-to-machine alloys, but knowing when to use it is as important as knowing how.

This shop has developed various time-saving tool components by creating them internally, including one tooling solution now being used by other shops as well.

Trunnion tables offer an effective way to get the most out of a rotary indexer especially when used in conjunction with quick-change subplates.

The pros and cons of each process have been covered before, but at least one supplier’s technology bucks the trend.

Digital technology that enables tool changes to be triggered by data-driven predictions of tool wear rather than part counts also is opening the door to other opportunities for optimizing production. A look at in-the-field applications shows that advanced tool monitoring is a step toward plant-wide digitalization.

Laser cutting and welding capability can make Swiss-type lathes an ideal complement to equipment that hasn’t traditionally shared space with production machinery.