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Turning Center Handles 4,500-mm Shafts Requiring Longitudinal Bores
WFL has redesigned its M40 Millturn for turning parts ranging to 520 mm in diameter, featuring an optional 4,500-mm center distance to enable efficient machining of longer, thinner shaft-type parts that require deep, longitudinal bores.
Read MoreManufacturing News of Note: December 2016
The U.S. Department of Labor chooses NIMS to develop more apprenticeships, Siemens and Stratasys form a partnership to promote additive manufacturing, and other industry news.
Read MoreVertical Lathe Precisely Machines Large, Heavy Parts
Okuma’s V920EX single-saddle vertical lathe features a powerful turning spindle and a larger work envelope, making it ideal for cutting a variety of large, heavy parts.
Read MoreSandvik Coromant Becomes DMG MORI Premium Partner
The company is the only tooling maker in DMG MORI’s Premium Partner program.
Read MoreRigid Turning Center’s Y Axis Travel Extends to 150 mm
Methods Machine Tools has expanded its Feeler FT-series high performance CNC turning centers with the FT-250SY.
Read MoreTom Paine Group Represents Fives Cutting Tools, Abrasives
The group represents these Fives products in several Southern states.
Read MoreVideo: The Impact of a Horizontal Machining Center
A small shop describes the efficiency gains it is seeing now that it has a horizontal machining center instead of solely verticals. One of the shop’s leaders talks through processing of parts then and now.
WatchWhen Grinding Is Like Turning
This shop leverages a high-speed peel-grinding process that resembles turning to effectively grind challenging materials such as carbide. Inherently low grinding forces mean high material-removal rates are possible.
Read MoreNew Workholding Setup Enable Lights-Out Production
For Idex Health and Science, manufacturing glass components was time-consuming on a VMC. Switching to an HMC with a Cluster Tower vise with DoveLock jaws from Kurt Manufacturing enabled more stable, lights-out machining.
Read MoreONA Electroerosion Acquires U.S. EDM Manufacturer
AAEDM is a smaller OEM that makes machines for micro hole machining.
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