Workforce Development
Modular Tooling Meets Requirements Of Job Shop Specizliaing In Off-Load Mach
Because quick response to customer needs is important, Ultimate Precision relies on agile production equipment, including CNC machining centers and flexible tooling. In producing 10-inch by 8-inch parts from raw castings for a builder of special machine tools, two ID bores and one OD surface, ranging from 3.3 inches to 5 inches in diameter, had to be finish-machined to exacting tolerances and fine surface finishes. Each of these cuts, and several other finishing operations, was performed on a 40 hp Niigata SPN-63 CNC horizontal machining center.
Read MoreJob Shop Provides Machine Operators With Job-Related Data In Real-Time
This shop, which specializes in large parts for power generation, aerospace and defense, decided it wanted to provide machine operators with every piece of information for the job at hand, in one place, at one time and in real-time.
Read MoreUser Interface Helps Solve EDM Skills Crunch
Many shops would like to do more electrical discharge machining (EDMing) but don't have the skilled EDM operators to run the machines. Mitsubishi EDM (MC Machinery Systems, Inc. , Wood Dale, Illinois) recently introduced several new models, and the ones equipped with a new generation of control unit will appeal to shops in this situation.
Read MoreJob Shop Triples Bandsaw Productivity By Substituting Carbide For Bi-Metal Blade
York Machine Shop Ltd. (Campbel1 River, British Columbia) cuts aluminum-bronze tube for a specialized paper industry application.
Read MoreJob 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.
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Not Your Typical Job Shop
This family-owned job shop has developed an integrated fabrication and machine shop in order to satisfy customers' changing needs. In doing so it has become an example that other shops might want to imitate.
Read MoreShort Bar Loader Helps Job Shop Meet Tolerance Specs And Throughput Goals
Maintaining high accuracy and repeatability in production parts requires precision workholding systems as well as precision machine tools. To help machine a particularly complex, high volume part, the company has installed magazine short bar load systems to complement production lathes.
Read MoreJob Shop Looks To Future With Advanced Multi-Pallet HMC
By adding an advanced multi-pallet HMC to their equipment, this company now has the ability to pursue work that it would never have been able to bid on before because of the machine's unmanned manufacturing capabilities and high productivity.
Read MoreSolving Coolant Problems Cuts Costs In Half For Alabama Job Shop
This manufacturer is impressed with this semi-synthetic coolant since it found that over the course of a few weeks, no bacteria grew, no odor developed, and no excessive coolant evaporation occurred.
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Do-It-Yourself Training
Training and recruitment of good manufacturing people is like the weather, in that everyone talks about it. But unlike our ability to influence the weather, there are things a shop can do about training and recruitment. This story describes one shop's innovative and successful approach to this vexing problem.
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