Machines
VMC Increases Productivity For Machining And Forging Shop
Bourdon Forge had been using machining systems that had a number of breakdowns, limiting productivity and machining quality. Both Kerry Nowak, CNC supervisor, and Clark Bourdon, president, would not settle for just any replacement system to machine their forged alloy steel products. The machine they wanted had to be durable, tough, U.S. made, and have an attractive price.
Read MoreFlexible Unattended Machining Helps Improve Part Quality And More
In its desire to use new methods, the shop looked for a product that would increase tool life, improve part quality and decrease changeover time. It found the One-Touch flexible manufacturing system (FMS) from Okuma and became the first to own one.
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Five-Axis Machining For The Masses
Control technology continues to make five-axis machining easier to use. Many special considerations - particularly qualified tools for pivoting-spindle machines - are no longer essential to the process.
Read MoreHMC Helps Optimize Engine Performance And Reduce Time To Track
The precision craftsmanship that goes into building an engine will usually separate the winners from the also-rans at NASCAR's highest levels. This certainly applies to cylinder head development, because so much power from the engine is produced in and around these chunks of aluminum. Cylinder heads are horsepower, and horsepower delivers speed. When an engine builder gets a new cylinder head in at the shop, there's a lot of work that needs to be done to get it into racing condition.
Read MoreECD Grinding - A Super Solution
Add ECD to the alphabet soup of metalworking abbreviations becauseelectrochemical dressing may indeed be coming to a superabrasive grinding machine near you.
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A Shop's View Of Vertical Turning
Every metalworking application is different. The challenge for shops is matching the appropriate level of technology to the job at hand. Here's how one job shop uses its vertical turning machines to produce large, heavy and tough workpieces for gas turbine engine applications.
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This Job Shop Found Success with Swiss-Type Turning
This northern Ohio job shop is very good at making parts on Swiss-type machines. It's evolved the business from manual engine lathes to lights-out manufacturing. Success didn't come easily, but it has indeed come to this shop.
Read MoreEndworking Turret Cuts Cycle Time
Standard procedure for shaft work at job shop Grand Haven Steel Products was historically to soft turn, send the parts out for hardening, and then grind to the final tolerance.
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Fine Wire Is Just Fine
As parts get smaller and smaller, using EDM wire as small as 0.001 inch in diameter to cut these workpieces becomes an attractive option—actually, the only option.
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Banking On A Swiss-Type
To shops used to conventional turning, the CNC Swiss-type is a strange sort of lathe. But for the right jobs, the machine is worth both the price and the learning curve.
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