Machines

Find Your Speed Outside of Machining

This short-lead-time mold shop achieves its most significant time savings by looking outside the machining cycle. However, one of those elements outside the cycle—palletized setup—ultimately led to cycle time savings via five-axis machining.

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Video: Minimizing Mistakes with Laser Scanning CMM

Die Tech & Engineering uses its scanning to CMM to avoid errors by inspecting electrodes prior to EDM.

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Grinding

Video: What is Double Disc Grinding?

This footage shows grinding of opposite surfaces at the same time.

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Startup Leverages Machine Tool Builder Expertise

To improve competitiveness, Sakana, a gray and ductile iron casting firm, decided to take responsibility for more steps in the wind turbine manufacturing process. With no experience in machining, partnering with machine tool builder Soraluce was key to the success of a new facility dedicated to machining frames and hubs.

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Five-Axis

Video: Two-Spindle Machine Turns and Mills Turbo Housings

This five-axis, two-spindle machining center shows how multitasking machines can be used for production applications.

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Advanced CNC Milling and Drilling Quiz

A provider of machine shop training offers these questions for benchmarking metalworking knowledge.

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Hard Milling Reduces Lead Time, Manual Labor

Investing in a hard milling machine from Makino has enabled this fineblanking manufacturer to reduce lead time by 55 percent, reduce manual labor and improve part quality.

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Holemaking

Video: Modulation Assisted Machining

This footage shows the effect of a techology that speeds and simplifies center drilling by oscillating the drill through many pecks per second.

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Turn/Mill

What It Takes for Oilfield Success

Hunt and Hunt’s president says adopting turn/mill machines was one of the most challenging endeavors his 55-year-old shop ever undertook. He also says it’s the best thing the shop could have done to become more efficient at contract work.

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Aerospace

Taking on Titanium

The challenge for the aerospace machine shop is to produce titanium parts productively and profitably. The challenge for the machine tool builder is to help such shops meet this challenge.

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