Workholding

Five-Axis

Applying A High Speed Machining Discipline Without The Speed

In this shop, high speed machining makes sense at 4,000 rpm. While the disciplines the shop put in place made a new 15,000-rpm profiler dramatically more productive, high speed machining would have remained valuable even if the new machine never came. Acoording to a co-owner of this shop, high speed machining has no need for speed.

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Workholding

Chuck Helps Restore Thin-Walled, Hardened Parts To Roundness

Heat treating can distort parts, especially round, thin-walled workpieces. During finish-turning, such components can conform to the shape of the chuck, only to spring back to an out-of-round state after clamping. Hardinge has developed a chuck with multiple gripping fingers to avoid this problem.

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Aerospace

Get Better Before You Get Bigger

Rather than making a major new machine tool purchase just yet, this shop is finding additional capacity on the equipment it already has. What once was a vertical machining center will become a flexible automated production center for unattended machining.

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Mate Workholding - Accuracy and Repeatability
Metal Forming Complex Parts
World Machine Tool Survey
SolidCAM
Paperless Parts machine shop software
JTEKT
IMTS+
Techspex
Mate Workholding - No Interruptions or Surprises