Grinding

Cutter Grinder

Dressing Well: The Key To Grinding Quality

Because the nature of the interface between wheel and workpiece largely defines grinding quality and efficiency, it's essential to maintain optimum conditions within this critical zone. Therein lies the key to sustaining grinding as a competitive process.

Pushing The Profile

A collaborative effort by three grinding companies has resulted in a process for creating profiles in diamond grinding wheels. It solved a knotty manufacturing problem for one Connecticut manufacturer and holds promise for others.

Flexible Grinding, No Grinder Required

At the heart of this process for lean manufacturing of nickel alloy turbine blades are CNC machining centers equipped with grinding wheels.

Getting In Gear With An Automated Cell

This production cell embodies several unusual but very effective concepts for keeping process variables under control with little operator intervention.

Internal Grinding Spindle Listens To See

This company has taken the use of acoustical technology for grinding machines in a different direction. It has placed a wide frequency acoustic sensor directly into the high frequency spindle of an internal grinder.

When Does Hard Turn/Grind Make Sense?

Combining different operations on a single machine tool platform is an attractive and increasingly popular idea. It is in practice, however, not always a plug and play substitution. Optimizing distinct metalcutting operations into a single cycle takes planning and a good understanding of the pluses and minuses of each.

Machine Boosts Productivity Of Aerospace Component Manufacturer

The purchase of this CNC grinding center to replace a number of large and unreliable reciprocating-type grinders has boosted production and proved invaluable for machining blades, turbine nozzle guide vanes and rotor blades for air- and land-based gas turbine engines at this British aerospace manufacturer.

Getting A Grinding Bonus

When this company traded its vintage ID grinders for CNC machines, it got more grinding capacity/capability than it expected.

Gearing Up With CNC Grinding

By adding a CNC OD/ID grinder, this California gear manufacturer brought a lot of farmed-out work in house, improved quality, slashed lead times—and saved money.