Grinding
Toolmaker Boosts Productivity With Grinder
Given the vitality of the auto market and the growing trend towards aluminum as a weight-saving aid, the demand for this manufacturer's tools has been consistently strong. More than half of the business is regrinding existing tools for customers, with the short lead times necessary to minimize the customer's investment in expensive tooling.
Read MoreGrinding Cell Yields Automatic Rewards
Sheffield, United Kingdom-based tool manufacturer Universal Drilling and Cutting Equipment (UDCE) manufactures a wide range of products for the engineering, fabrication and construction industries, including electro-magnetic drilling systems, broaching cutters, tungsten carbide cutters, industrial cutters and specialized engineering tools.
Read MoreCenterless Grinding: Not Magic!
Achieving consistent and quality results from the centerless grinding process requires an understanding of the basic fundamentals. Most application problems associated with centerless grinding derive from a misunderstanding of the basics. This article explains why the centerless process works and how to use it most effectively in your shop.
Read MoreEvolving The Surface Grinder
A creep feed/surface grinder proves a winning combination for airfoil machining cells.
Read MoreUniversal Grinder Takes The Heat Out Of Brake Servo Production
Dunlop Aviation Braking Systems was looking to replace outdated machinery and to gearup the match grind cell of its brake system manufacturing module.
Read MoreHigher Quality, Reduced Defects Via Remanufactured Grinders
This off-highway vehicle manufacturer's grinders were difficult and time consuming to set up, and holding tight tolerances had increasingly become a 'hit or miss' proposition.
Read MoreFloating Plate Takes The Run . . . Out
Understanding the critical role of the grinding operation in the shop's manufacturing process, grinding machine makers continuously apply the best technical knowledge available to their machines. Often these are little innovations that help reduce the opportunities for inaccuracy to seep into the process. A typical example of such innovation is found in this manufacturer's line of grinding machine tools.
Read MoreThe Right Tool, Right Away
In-house custom tool grinding extends the reach of CNC machining.
Read MoreThe New Face Of Creep Feed Grinding
Creep feed grinding allows a hardened workpiece to be machined from the solid in a single pass, replacing milling, broaching or other types of grinding. Compact, more affordable creep feed grinding machines now make this process attractive in a wider range of applications.
Read MoreShop Adds CNC Grinding To Its Mix
Of all the metalworking processes, grinding is probably the most application specific. In a job shop environment, however, flexibility is the key to successful grinding. Here's a look at how one captive job shop successfully transitioned from manual to CNC grinding while standardizing its grinding process parameters to accommodate the demands of low volume, high mix production requirements.
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