Turning Tools

Making A Flexible Machine Tool More Flexible

Multitasking cutting tools can maximize the flexibility of multitasking machines.

Fifty-Five Degree Triangular Insert

Upgrade Your Cutting Tool Mindset

A handful of timely observations may boost the productivity of your thinking about cutting tools.

Parting And Grooving Tools

Machining Under The Microscope

Sandia National Laboratories experiments with turning and milling tools just 10 and 20 microns in size.

Lathe Toolholders For Turning Away

Think 'unattended machining,' and the image in your mind is probably complex - that is, some machining process that relies on automation more than the typical machining process does. But does going unattended have to involve this complexity? Instead of requiring automation, allowing the operator to step away from the machine tool might just be a matter of addressing the sources of worry that keep that operator engaged.

Applying Turn-Milling

Combining a rotating tool with rotating work produces a machining operation that is distinct from standard turning or milling.

Hard Turning Might Not Be As Hard As You Think

Turning hardened materials to grinding-like accuracies takes the right combination of part, machine and process parameters.

The Technology Of Lean Machining

This plant makes different choices for its machining cells depending on whether the parts to be machined there are known or unknown.

Adapters For Turning Center Tooling