Workholding
Quick-Change Chucks Boost Turn-Mill Benefits
At this Chicago-area manufacturer, quick-change chucks from Kitagawa added to the benefits of moving from multiple setups on multiple machines to producing parts in a single setup on Mazak turn-mills.
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Workholding Tools Enable Faster Job Change-Overs
Kurt’s HD and HDL vises and towers are designed for faster setups, larger workholding capacity, and greater flexibility and precision to handle a variety of part configurations.
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Steady Rests Designed for Longer Life
New features of the Atling AX series from LMC Workholding are designed to extend the life of the self-centering steady rests and their parts.
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Catalog Features Variety of Workholding Products
Lang Technovation’s 2010/2011 catalog, which will also serve for most of 2012, features a profile clamping system for profile parts; Makro Grip, a center vise for five-axis machining; Quick Point, a zero-point clamping system; and Grip Fix, which is said to provide maximum clamping force.
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Rigid Collet Chucks for High-Speed Applications
Techniks' TE ER collet chucks are suited for CAT40, CAT50 and BT40 collets.
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Air Chuck Uses Three Jaws for Gripping
Northfield Precision Instrument’s Model 700 air chuck features a 7" diameter and three jaws that grip the automotive “hub” to drill and chamfer the holes.
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Rotary Table Positions Heavy Loads
Fibro’s Fibromat heavy-load positioning table is designed to position large and heavy parts or equipment quickly and precisely, and is especially suited for car body assembly applications in the automobile industry.
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Air-Bearing Grinding Fixtures Enable Cutter Sharpening
Rush Machinery’s air-bearing end mill grinding fixtures enable precision sharpening of end mills, reamers, shell mills and other cutters.
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Rotary Table Compliments High-Speed Machines
The HRT160SS “super-speed” rotary table from Haas Automation provides indexing speeds as fast as 570 degrees per second to take advantage of the increased speeds and feeds of high-speed machining centers.
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Making Lean Connections
When Nilpeter embarked on a lean initiative 14 months ago, no one at the printing press manufacturer had any inkling that they had already taken an important first step.
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