Five-Axis

Partners in THINC Winter Showcase to Demonstrate Five-Axis Setup

The demonstration is intended to benefit shops that need to do five-axis work but don’t want to or need to incur the price of a dedicated five-axis machine tool.

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Michigan High School to Celebrate Manufacturer Involvement in CTE Programs

After DMG MORI’s contribution of a five-axis CNC machining center, other manufacturers pitched in with donations of equipment and services.

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Automation

Manufacturing News of Note: October 2017

Industry technology partnerships, a management buyout, and other industry news.

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Five-Axis

Five-Axis HMCs Perform Complex Prismatic Machining

Heller Machine Tools introduces its HF series of five-axis horizontal machining centers for complex prismatic parts.

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Automation

Handtmann Group Sells A-Punkt Automation to Managing Director

The five-axis machining center manufacturer will focus on its core business going forward.

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Using Hybrid Additive Manufacturing, GE Leverages Turbine Blade Repair into Efficiency Improvement

An engineering modification that would have been impractical or cost-prohibitive in the past is realized on a machine tool performing metal 3D printing and machining in the same cycle.

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Applying Automotive Machining Lessons to Aerospace

Although motorsports are a natural focus for a shop owned by a former NASCAR driver, five-axis machining and an emphasis on process planning have opened the door to new aerospace work.

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Optimized Milling Strategy for Five-Axis Titanium Blisk Machining

A new finishing strategy using specially designed barrel cutters is said to reduce five-axis titanium blisk machining times by 50 percent.

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Automation

VMCs Can be Connected to Form Smart Production Line

EMO 2017: Okuma will demonstrate its MU-S600V five-axis vertical machining center, which enables five-face machining of workpieces as large as 600 mm in diameter.

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Turn/Mill

DMG MORI Opens New Tech Center and Showroom in Southwest Ohio

Site to provide customer support and training for technologies such as five-axis machining and multifunction turning centers.

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