Machines

Takumi's H12 Provides Rigidity for High-Speed Machining

The Takumi H12 CNC double-column machining center is designed for parts that require speed, accuracy and surface finish in the die/mold, aerospace and other high-speed applications.

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Tackling the Aerospace Supplier’s Dilemma: Scalability

Automation and robotics can go a long way toward increasing capacity and growing a business dedicated to aerospace manufacturing. But Trinity Precision has learned that refining the indirect and unseen aspects of its operations can be just as valuable.

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Aerospace

Center of Excellence Is New Twist on Old Manufacturing Department Structure

The new Spirit AeroSystems facility for five-axis machining allows a small team to oversee a significant amount of machining capability. Is this the way of the future as machining systems become more automated?

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Laser & Waterjet

AgieCharmilles Laser S Texturing Machine Reduces Quality Deviations

The AgieCharmilles Laser S series, available from GF Machining Solutions, provides a solution to what the company sees as the limitations of conventional and manual surface texturing methods.

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EDM

Relationships at the Heart of Manufacturing Move

Once again under the leadership of Ed Beaumont, fast-hole EDM supplier Beaumont Machine recently moved to a new facility. Relationships with customers, employees and the aerospace industry as a whole were cited as the reasons for this change.

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Grinding

Vollmer Breaks Ground on Pennsylvania Facility

Vollmer’s new building will include doubled warehouse space, a larger showroom and an in-house gym for employees. 

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Five-Axis

3 Mindset Changes for Lights-Out CNC Machining

Expanding capacity into the unattended hours calls for counterintuitive new ways of thinking about the work.

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Grinding

Weiler Abrasives Celebrates 75th Anniversary

The company now has 1,300 employees across eight different countries, but it still does business with its first 1944 customer. 

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Grinding

Weldcote C-Prime Flap Discs Avoid Discoloration, Workpiece Deformation

Weldcote Metals, a division of Zika Group, has introduced its line of C-Prime and C-Prime Plus ceramic flap discs.

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Grinding

Studer S131R Grinds Hard Materials Typical of Dies

United Grinding’s Studer S131R, a radius internal cylindrical grinding machine, is well-suited for making dies out of hard materials such as tungsten carbide and ceramics.

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