Workholding
Direct-Drive Rotary Tables for Contouring, Positioning
The company’s direct-drive rotary tables have zero backlash, permitting rapid bi-directional movement without lost time compensating for position over-travel.
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Customizable Precision Tombstones
Stevens Engineering offers a variety of tombstones in sizes ranging to 40" square by 60" overall height.
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Workholding, Workhandling and More
The company offers bar feeders, chip conveyors, coolant management systems, automatic workholding devices and oil mist collectors.
Read MoreBar Feeder for Swiss Lathes
The Elite 220 bar feeder for Swiss-type lathes features two barstock magazine types with basic bar feeder configuration: a standard linear/gravity magazine for barstock ranging from 0.25" to 0.787" and a “walking beam” type for barstock ranging from 0.080" to 0.25".
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Cell Works the Night Shift
At this aerospace and medical component manufacturer, a Doosan HMC paired with a flexible pallet magazine and cell controller from Fastems has increased production and part quality while eliminating variation throughout the production chain.
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Large-Diameter, Full-Grip Jaws
Dillon Manufacturing offers cast aluminum (356-T6) full-grip jaws eith diameters ranging to 24". The wrap-around top jaws apply minimum force for thin-walled parts, and they distribute the gripping pressure over the workpiece surface to maintain repetitive accuracy.
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Incremental Automation
This machine tool supplier sees shops searching for just a little bit of unattended capacity. Many shops are closer to obtaining this extra capacity than they realize.
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Vulcanized Collet Systems
The FlexC collet systems are flexible, sealed collet heads that can interchange in seconds.
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Vise Rigidity Boosts Robot Cell Output
To automate the fixturing of round machining center components, Haas uses a custom, robot-tended setup incorporating MoveLock vises from Kurt manufacturing. Thanks to these vises’ rigidity, the machine tool builder has doubled the output of its robot cells compared to previous setups.
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Quick-Change Fixturing Locks in Time, Cost Savings
When a routine process-improvement exercise revealed significant savings could be gleaned from reducing setup time and speeding change-overs, this manufacturer turned to the Ball Lock quick-change system from Jergens, Inc. As a result, the company reduced setup time by 20 to 50 percent, depending on the job.
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