Workholding
Jaw-Forming Ring Provides Uniform Grip on Workpieces
The Dillon jaw-forming ring is designed to be an easy-to-use tool providing a more uniform grip on the workpiece, maximizing jaw life for cutting and forming operations.
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Buying an HMC: Tooling and Workholding Considerations
Is it time to move up to an HMC? Let’s look at tooling- and workholding-related concerns that those interested in acquiring an HMC will want to keep in mind.
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Meeting the Machining Challenges of Additive Manufacturing
You can 3D print the part, but can you finish it? Here is how to overcome the challenge of part deflection in the machining of lightweight, complex AM parts.
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Taking the Drag out of Automotive Machining Setups
Paired with the right cutting tools, workholding and software, multi-tasking and multi-axis equipment enables this race team to also bill itself as a full-fledged parts supplier.
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Establishing an Effective Hard-Turning Process
In devising its hard-turning strategy, this die/mold shop has been able to speed the production of its new deep-draw round tooling offerings by turning them instead of grinding them after heat treating.
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Multi-Axis Rotary Tables Can Be Assembled in 240 Configurations
The PL Lehmann 500 series of modular multi-axis rotary tables, available in North America through Exsys, can upgrade a VMC to increase productivity without the expense of a new machine.
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Rotary Tables Offer Torque in a Small, Light Design
Destaco offers its family of GTB-series servo-positioning rotary tables, which are the first products to be launched as part of the company’s technical partnership with Techno Dynamics Inc.
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Self-Contained Power Chuck Speeds Clamping Process, Prevents Contaminants
Schunk’s Rota TB2 pneumatic self-contained power chuck features a new design to reduce maintenance costs and ensure process reliability.
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Schunk USA Breaks Ground on Headquarters Expansion
The two phases of the project will add some 19,000 square feet of manufacturing space and 22,000 square feet of tech center, training and office space by the end of 2018, expanding what is already the company’s largest facility outside of Germany.
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Pole Plates Enable Quick Workpiece Changes
Schunk Magnos parallel pole, square pole and radial pole plates are designed to ensure reliable workpiece clamping, quick workpiece changes and efficient grinding.
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