Turn/Mill

Medical 15 Dec 2001

Merging Functions For Better Efficiency

By eliminating extra steps, a multi-process machine enables a medical manufacturer to streamline its production time and conserve shop space.

Turn/Mill 15 Sep 2001

Prototypes . . . And Then Some

Turn-mill machines have made this prototype shop competitive for large-volume orders too.

Turn/Mill 15 Apr 2001

Making Short Work Of Small Lots

Multi-tasking is a word typically associated with the consequences of ever-changing human job descriptions. For the people at Mazak Corporation, however, the word applies equally to metalworking machines.

Turn/Mill 15 Feb 2001

Small Shop, Mighty Machines

Multitasking machines capable of completely machining complex, milled and turned parts in a single setup are powering this Chicago-area job shop's growth.

Automotive 15 Nov 2000

Three Steps To Succeed As A Minority Automotive Supplier

When Gary Malloy and Reggie Ball formed Sturgis Machining in February 1998, it was with the intent of becoming a premier minority machine shop to General Motors.

Automation 15 May 2000

Manufacturer Takes Innovative Approach To Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Thousands of contract manufacturing shops across North America that produce commodity parts such as shafts, arbors, bearing races, gear splines, and so on, have one problem in common: how to do it faster and less expensively.

Automation 15 Apr 2000

Unique's Approach To Mold Making

This Canadian mold making shop, Unique Mould Makers, is aptly named. Virtually every multi-cavity injection mold set made for the manufacture of caps, closures, vials and other packaging applications is indeed unique. One might think that automation and standardization would not be of interest to such a shop. Think again!

Workholding 15 Sep 1999

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.

Turn/Mill 15 Sep 1999

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.

Holemaking 1 Mar 1999

Job Shop Cuts Processing Time 60 Percent

Innovative Manufacturing used to spend ten minutes per part machining cast iron differential housings for golf carts, but now total machining time is down to three minutes, 45 seconds. According to Innovative owner and president Rob Sander, the productivity leap came when the company consolidated turning, milling, drilling and reaming into a single machine tool.