Machining Centers

Quill-Spindle HMC Delivers Large Work Envelope

Toyoda offers the FH1250SW, a quill-spindle version of the FH1250SX, which combines the original HMC’s speed with the capabilities of a boring mill.

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Five-Axis

Video of a Really Cool Bar (-Fed Machining Center)

See a five-axis, bar-fed machining center creating a complex sample part complete from barstock.

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Video: Big Boring Operations on a Marine Prop Housing

East Texas Machine Works focuses on large-scale work. Here’s a video showing impressive boring operations on a marine component.

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From Image to Implant

Demo shows custom implant made on commodity-level machine.

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Milling Tools

The Many Ways Ford Benefits from MQL

Clean machining using minimum quantity lubrication has allowed Ford’s Van Dyke transmission plant to become fundamentally more efficient and effective at manufacturing six-speed automatic transmissions.

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Taking Spindle Health Seriously

Minimizing machine downtime became all the more important as this shop began targeting higher-production automotive work. To that end, it is in the early stages of implementing predictive spindle monitoring technology to head off problems that could take out key machines for extended periods of time.

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Horizontal Boring and Milling Machine

Mighty Viper offers the PBM-135 precision CNC horizontal boring and milling machine with a rotary table.

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VMCs Designed for Performance and Value

Methods Machine Tools is the exclusive N.A. importer of Fair Friend Group’s range of Feeler machines, which are designed for performance and value.

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How is Large-Part Machining Different?

A shop serving the wind-power industry illustrates some of the challenges particular to machining massive workpieces.

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Aerospace

Composites Machining for the F-35

Lockheed Martin’s precision machining of composite skin sections for the F-35 provides part of the reason why this plane saves money for U.S. taxpayers. That machining makes the plane compelling in ways that have led other countries to take up some of the cost. Here is a look at a high-value, highly engineered machining process for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.

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