Automation

EDM 15 Feb 2000

Methods' Revamped Lineup Features Advanced Technology

“Smart” machine tools. Spindles reaching 60,000 rpm. Affordable robots for load/unload.

Workholding 15 Dec 1999

Stepping Out Of The Comfort Zone

Taking the BIG step that radically changes the way you do things is not for the faint of heart. It requires more than just a leap of faith. It requires hard work, thorough research and selecting technology that works so well you needn't think about that step once taken.

Shop Management Software 15 Nov 1999

Gradual Software Implementation Allows Users To Find Comfort Zone

Big shops may have the financial resources and personnel to change the way they do business almost overnight when they make changes in their information systems. However, at this small shop, that was not the approach shop management took to automation.

Workholding 15 Oct 1999

Flexible Unattended Machining Helps Improve Part Quality And More

In its desire to use new methods, the shop looked for a product that would increase tool life, improve part quality and decrease changeover time. It found the One-Touch flexible manufacturing system (FMS) from Okuma and became the first to own one.

Turn/Mill 15 Sep 1999

This Job Shop Found Success with Swiss-Type Turning

This northern Ohio job shop is very good at making parts on Swiss-type machines. It's evolved the business from manual engine lathes to lights-out manufacturing. Success didn't come easily, but it has indeed come to this shop.

Automation 1 Jul 1999

Profibus

Profibus is an international vendor-independent, open fieldbus standard based on the European fieldbus standard EN 50 170. Although applicable to CNC machine I/O, it was created for a much broader segment of industry that includes building automation, industrial automation and process control.

CAD/CAM 15 Jun 1999

The Right CAM Program Helps Machine Maker Meet Mandate

Mueller Tool and Machine's main focus is designing and building machinery that forms and finishes copper-tubing fittings for the plumbing and heating marketplace. Not available commercially, its custom machinery includes machines for facing copper fittings, and hydraulic presses with closed-loop programmable ram-control--which automate the push-forming of copper elbows.