Machines
Diamond Wheels Produce Carbide Flutes and Periphery Edges
Norton, a Saint-Gobain brand, has introduced its Paradigm diamond wheels, which feature a new bond designed to deliver high grinding performance on carbide round tools, and periphery grinding on carbide and cermet inserts.
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Gundrill Grinder Enables Concurrent Grinding, Measuring
Unisig’s Gundrill Grinder enables concurrent grinding and measuring operations to help ensure process repeatability and accuracy while speeding the gundrill grinding process.
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Grinding Products Can Be Equipped with Automation
Heartland Machine and Engineering offers a selection of high-performance grinding and finishing machines that can be optionally equipped with automation using gantry or robots.
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Honing Stones Offer Alternative to Superabrasives
Sunnen’s 60-grit red aluminum-oxide honing stones are designed to provide an alternative to superabrasives for heavy stock removal.
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The Foundry's Way Forward
An established supplier of short-run castings just opened and staffed a new, fully equipped, in-house CNC machine shop. Taking ownership of machining will improve the company’s range of services to customers as well as its quality control.
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Video of Interesting Turbine Blade Workholding System
This clamping system is an automated steady rest with measuring capability that stabilizes the five-axis machining process of very long turbine blades.
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Integrated Machine Tools Process Oil and Gas Products
Weingärtner Maschinenbau offers machines for the oil and gas downhole and artificial lift industries.
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Robot-Tended VMC Cell Changes Multiple Workpieces Simultaneously
Available from Methods Machine Tools, the Twin RoboDrill JobShop Cell features two FANUC D21 RoboDrill vertical machining centers serviced by a single articulating FANUC LR Mate 200iD robot.
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Plasma Cutting on a Waterjet
While waterjets are known for cutting accuracy, they can be slower and more costly to operate than other machines. Equipping waterjets with other capabilities—such as plasma cutting—can save time and boost productivity.
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How Important Is Oil Filtration for Grinding?
Oil filtration is pretty important for grinding, especially when you’re trying to “dust” a few microns off a part.
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