Basics

3 Ways to Help New Engineers Understand Manufacturing

Priorities, processes and personnel are three things new engineers must understand about the shop floor.

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Why Was CNC Machining on Display at the Biggest Show for Additive Manufacturing?

Machining is a complement to AM as a means of finishing metal 3D printed parts. The increasing adoption of AM for production means more need for postprocessing, particularly machining.

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Basics

Carr Lane's Hoist Eye 360 Rotates Fully When Pulling at Any Angle

Carr Lane’s Hoist Eye 360 is a forged lifting eye that can be rotated 360 degrees after installation in order to align with the pulling direction.

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Parts Cleaning

Automated Part Deburring, Cleaning in One System

Palletized parts are transferred from a five-axis, high-pressure waterjet station to a cleaning station via linear motor to enable fast, automated finishing.

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Additive Manufacturing Standards

There are gaps in published additive manufacturing standards. Here are some resources and standards to help make sense of the growing technology.

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Grinding

Keeping Blanchard Grinding Current

What do you do when a large portion of your business depends on machine tools that are more than 30 years old? You roll up your sleeves and perform some of the maintenance of your machines yourself, even if you are the company’s VP, because that maintenance is crucial to the shop’s success. 

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Measurement

Is It a Gaging Display or a Computer?

Sometimes, it’s hard to tell the difference.

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Basics

10 Steps to a More Organized Work Area

Workplace organization can be overwhelming. Break it into smaller steps to make it more manageable.

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5 Mistakes We Find in Most CNC Machine Programs

While the mistakes listed here will not sound an alarm or cause a program to fail, they will cause confusion, wasted time and scrap parts.

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Holemaking

How to Improve Peck Drilling Canned Cycles

Most CNCs don’t have a canned cycle for machining deep holes into malleable materials. Here’s what you do.

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