Grinding

Grinding 15 Dec 2002

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.

Grinding 15 Dec 2002

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.

Grinding 15 Oct 2002

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.

Grinding 15 Oct 2002

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.

Turn/Mill 15 Apr 2002

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.

Grinding 15 Jan 2002

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.

Grinding 15 Dec 2001

Getting A Grinding Bonus

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

Grinding 15 Dec 2001

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.

Grinding 15 Dec 2001

One Stop Milling, Drilling, Turning And Grinding

Many shops, in an effort to reduce the handling of workpieces and get takt times (time spent in the cut) as low as possible, are looking to streamline this traditional hurry-up-and-wait process scheme.

15 Nov 2001

Between Centers And Centerless Grinding In One Setup

It sounds like a contradiction in terms-between centers and centerless grinding on one machine. But for some categories of workpieces, it's a viable production process that can yield machining time reductions of 45 percent over separate grinding operations.

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