Machines
When Automating a Task Beats Automating the Process
A medical manufacturer proves why a high mix of complex work need not deter any manufacturer from automation, whether via robot or pallet system.
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Compact Machining Center for Small Workpieces
IMTS22: Chiron Group’s Micro5 maximizes precision for small, micro-technical workpieces such as medical, watchmaking, jewelry and small electronics.
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View From My Shop Episode 5: Inside a Full Five-Axis Shop With KCS Advanced Machining
In this episode of our shop tour series, KCS Advanced Machining takes us inside their shop and breaks down why they decided to invest completely in five-axis machining centers.
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United Grinding, Titans of CNC Launch Grinding Academy
The Grinding Academy offers free online courses to teach and train the next generation of machinists.
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Mazak's Syncrex Swiss-Style Lathe Provides Flexible, Versatile Operation
Mazak's Syncrex Swiss-Style series is designed for higher volume, small precision-machined parts.
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Heavy Engineering: The Complex Logistics of Moving Large Machine Tools
One of our fascinations with large-format machine tools has little to do with their capabilities, but everything to do with the logistics involved with getting them up and running. Here’s how one of the world’s oldest builders of giant machine tools tackles the challenge.
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Introducing the Next Generation of Turning Machines
IMTS 22: Index will debut the next generations of its G220 turn mill center, MS32-6 CNC multispindle and TNL12 sliding headstock lathe.
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Grinding Wheel Safety: Respect The Maximum Speed
One potential source of serious injury in grinding comes from an oversight that is easy to make: operating the wheel in an over-speed condition.
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Watchmaking: A Machinist’s View
Old-world craftsmanship combines with precision machining on a vertical machining center and Swiss-type lathe to produce some of the only U.S.-made mechanical wristwatch movements.
Read MorePortable, Flexible Fiber Laser Marker Circumvents Conventional Process Constraints
See Rocklin Manufacturing’s MobiLase portal laser marking unit in action, in addition to other maintenance and repair solutions, at IMTS 2022.
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