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Automation and Flexibility Counter Inflation at BI-MU 2022

Automation headlined BI-MU 2022, while flexibility underscored exhibitors’ products. These twin benefits may be shops’ greatest assets against inflation.

Hardinge Inc. Receives Metalworking Reshoring Award

The National Metalworking Reshoring Award honors companies that have effectively reshored products, parts or tooling made primarily by metal forming, fabricating, casting or machining, including additive manufacturing.

A Show That Bucks the Status Quo

IMTS 2022 - The International Manufacturing Technology Show will feature more than the latest metalworking technologies. It will provide a strong case to American manufacturers that now is the time to bring production back home to the United States.

Vertical Machining Center Designed for Flexibility

IMTS22: Hardinge’s Bridgeport XR1000 VMC is said to be ideal for machining everything from simple workpieces and quality molds/dies to complex prismatic parts.

Hardinge Inc. Acquires Ohio Tool Works

As part of the acquisition, Hardinge adds Ohio Tool Works’ platform of high-precision honing machines, tooling and abrasives to its machine tool and workholding portfolio.

August 2021 Manufacturing News Highlights

Acquisitions made for a busy month of news at Modern Machine Shop. Here are the top five news stories of August.

Hardinge to Acquire J.G. Weisser GmbH & Co.

Frank Hornberger, CEO of Weisser, said the acquisition opens up immediate expansion potential for Weisser.

Forkardt's FNC+ Chuck Extends Compatible Weights and RPM

Forkardt’s revisions to the FNC+ Quick Jaw Change Power Chuck increase its versatility, expanding the compatible range of RPMs and workpiece weights.

Hardinge Expands Management Team

Hardinge expands its management team, with Chandra Urs as COO, Tina Mashiko as CFO, Brent Bruggeman as CIO and Stephen Nunn as VP of Corporate Development.

Hardinge's Voumard 1000 Internal Grinder Features Hydrostatic Ways

The Voumard 1000 universal internal grinding machine, available from Hardinge, offers five CNC-controlled axes with positioning accuracy in the nanometer range.

Bridgeport V1320's Dual Y-Axis Bearings Increase Surface Quality

Hardinge has added the V1320 to Bridgeport’s V series of vertical machining centers.

September 2019 Product Spotlight: EMO Hannover

Catch a preview of some of the metalworking technologies to be on display at EMO Hannover next week in this special product spotlight.

Universal Grinder Offers 10 Wheelhead Options

Hardinge offers the Kellenberger 100, a high-performance, economical grinder for universal grinding.

Establishing an Effective Hard-Turning Process

In devising its hard-turning strategy, this die/mold shop has been able to speed the production of its new deep-draw round tooling offerings by turning them instead of grinding them after heat treating.

Catch Up on PMTS 2017’s Live Demonstrations with This Video Playlist

Covering workholding, Swiss-type turning, multitasking machines and more, the seven talks in the YouTube playlist are a good recap of the latest in production machining technology.

ID, OD, Face, Taper, Radius, Contour Grinding in Single Chucking

Eastec 2017: Hardinge Grinding Group, a subsidiary of Hardinge Inc., will showcase its USACH 100‐T4 machine for ID/OD precision cylindrical grinding in a variety of industries.

Five-Axis VMC Offers Power and Precision

Hardinge offers its next-generation Bridgeport XT 630 five-axis VMC designed to achieve maximum capacity and performance in the aerospace, die/mold, medical and automotive industries.

Turning Center Series Features Collet-Ready Spindle

Hardinge’s Talent series of CNC turning centers, including the 42 and 51 models, is designed for accuracy, flexibility and durability in a compact machine.

Compact VMCs Benefit Job Shops, OEMs

The Bridgeport V480 and V710 vertical machining centers from Hardinge are suitable for applications ranging from job shop work to high-production manufacturing with fast rapid traverse rates, high axis and spindle acceleration/deceleration, and a powerful control.

VMC’s Improved Automatic Pallet Changer Handles Heavier Loads

Hardinge offers Bridgeport’s fully digital Conquest V480 APC E series vertical machining center with Mitsubishi M70 CNC.

Aztalan Aims for Rapid Adjustment

Aztalan Engineering shortened its lead times by switching to a short-run cell model for its prototype jobs and implementing a company-wide QRM strategy.

Collets and Guide Bushings for Swiss Workholding

Hardinge Workholding has expanded its range of products for workholding in Swiss-type machining with additional collets and guide bushings.

Tidy Machining Cell

A compact cell designed by Gosiger Automation demonstrates the advantages of automated turning and inspection for long stretches of unattended operation.

Four CNC Turning Centers for Small- to Medium-Sized Workpieces

Hardinge has added four turning centers in its GS series: the GS 42MS, GS 51MS, GS 150MS and GS 200MS.

Worth the Trip

The Hardinge Machine Tool Show (HMTS) welcomed more than 750 visitors this year. Along with a vast lineup of Hardinge machines, more than 40 of its industry partners rounded out the trade-show atmosphere.

Manufacturer Turns Inward for New Machine

The Hardinge Workholding Group needed a heavy-duty machine with a rigid structural design that could perform multiple operations. After scouring the market, the group found the right model closer to home than it expected.

Collets Support Swiss-Turning Applications

Hardinge’s Swiss-style collets are designed for precision machining of small parts suitable for the medical and aerospace industries.

Classic Knee Mill is Anniversary Gift

To honor the 70th anniversary of the founding of The Robert E. Morris Company, Hardinge Inc. presented a Bridgeport knee mill to Lee Morris and the Morris Group Inc. The connection between the two companies is even longer standing.

Turning Center Aids Transition To Production Work

To migrate from prototyping and one-off work to higher-volume jobs, Elmira, New York-based IDM needed more capability than its manual machines and older CNCs could provide. With the ability to complete parts in one setup and perform work that previously required multiple machines, the Hardinge SR-MSY multi-axis turning center was key to the shop’s competitiveness.

A Tool Turret Tailored For The Task (Of Multitasking)

When Hardinge Inc. (Elmira, New York) designed its new "flagship" line of multitasking CNC turning centers, it paid particular attention to the turret tooling top plate.

Tightening Inventory And Setups

Producing three models of spray guns with differing machining requirements translated to 2 1/2 -day-long setups, not to mention the additional stress of not being able to keep up with production. All of that changed for the better, however, when a Columbus, Ohio industrial equipment manufacturer investigated alternate workholding products. Using a twin-station vise with machinable soft jaws, Rimrock Corporation eliminated continual refixturing while improving cycle times by 60 percent and reducing actual manned labor hours-to the tune of 50 percent.

PC-Based Surface Grinders Make Their Mark

A more effective approach to grinding complex profiles enables this shop to help its U.S. customers compete globally.

Alternate Gripping Methods For Grinding Machines

Are you using your grinding machine to its full job capacity? Machine operators don't often think past centers, arbors, fixtures and magnetic chucks. Many shops are still doing second operation work when they could be set up to finish parts complete with an alternate workholding method. Here are several suggestions for additional or improved gripping solutions.

Cryogenic Hard Turning

Liquid nitrogen insert cooling extends insert life and allows greater use of low-cost ceramic inserts for hard turning operations.

Hard Turning Might Not Be As Hard As You Think

Turning hardened materials to grinding-like accuracies takes the right combination of part, machine and process parameters.

New 'Ways' For Hard Turning

This company went to work to improve the surface finish and tool life in hard turning applications.

Machine Shop Hikes Productivity By 'Turning Lathe On End'

Midwest Screw Products is a contract manufacturing operation for the aerospace, computer, medical, electronics, energy, telecommunications and fluid process industries.

Dynamic Thermal Comp Keeps Things Cool

All materials are affected by temperature deviations. While the rate and degree of change varies from material to material, demand for tighter tolerances means that thermal compensation is increasingly finding its way into general manufacturing.

Turning Turned On End

Inverted-spindle vertical turning machines take on horizontal chuckers for turning cell applications.

For Unattended Machining, Attend To Pre-Process

Efficient use of labor is a primary goal of unattended machining. To successfully reduce process intervention, all of the manufacturing disciplines must participate. Accomplishing this requires detailed pre-process planning, which is the key to optimizing machine, material and manpower resources.

Banking On A Swiss-Type

To shops used to conventional turning, the CNC Swiss-type is a strange sort of lathe. But for the right jobs, the machine is worth both the price and the learning curve.