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High-Speed Machining
The Starting Point
Speed is just the first step. Using that speed effectively may require changes to your assumptions about machining.
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The Efficiency Effect
Using machining centers that might otherwise mill electrodes, this Minnesota mold shop does its cutting directly in steel. The streamlined process has exceeded expectations and yielded a striking increase in sales.
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Processing The Process
The high speed horizontal machining centers in this manufacturing cell represent a very efficient process for machining cast iron transmission cases. How the crew runs and maintains this cell represents a very efficient process for making this cell ever more productive and cost effective.
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Getting The Time Out Of Titanium
For Boeing engineers successful at high speed machining of aluminum, the next step is to mill faster in a more constraining metal.
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Prescription For Success
For an Ontario mold shop, higher cutting speeds meet the challenge of producing optical-quality surfaces.
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Standard Jobs Beyond Standard Speed
This job shop is defining the role of extremely high spindle speed in variable-volume, variable-part-number production.
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Going Beyond Three-Axis Milling
In its quest for greater moldmaking efficiency, this shop added fourth- and fifth-axis positioning mills and is about to buy its first continuous five-axis mill.
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The Fluid Transition
A watershed moment in spindle evolution? For the latest generation of high speed spindles used in milling, spindle makers look beyond traditional bearings.
Read MoreHigh Speed Milling: A Competitive Necessity
The use of high speed milling in moldmaking shops is no longer viewed as merely providing a firm with a competitive advantage. It is a disruptive technology that is becoming a competitive necessity.
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Maximum Aluminum: Optimizing Metal Removal Rate in Aluminum with a High Speed Spindle
Speed changes the rules. To maximize metal removal rate with a high speed spindle, follow some fundamental tooling considerations and mill at just the right rpm.
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