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Tooling
Winner By A Nose!
Wiper technology is designed to improve surface finish in machining applications. It involves an insert with a flat. As the 'wiper' passes through the cut, it smoothes the surface.
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Hold Multiple Parts In One Vise
Traditionally, machine tool buyers have relied heavily on machine tool distributors for advice on buying the equipment best suited to their particular needs. In today's Internet age, however, the buyer has unprecedented access to a world of information with which to make informed purchase decisions.
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Vacuum Pump Maker Finds Innovative Ways To Reduce Manufaturing Costs
With new tooling, this manufacturer was able to mill housings at 3,000 sfm and a feed rate of 230 ipm. Cutting time dropped from 20.68 minutes to 12.74 minutes, a savings of nearly 40 percent.
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Tool Monitoring May Be An Essential Part Of Unattended Machining
To take advantage of unattended machining, shops will most likely be forced to utilize some type of tool monitoring system.
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Pallet Systems Help Deliver
For this shop, a pallet system becomes a smart way not only to get more cutting time out of the machine, but as a quick way to pay back the investment in their machine.
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Manufacturer Takes Innovative Approach To Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Thousands of contract manufacturing shops across North America that produce commodity parts such as shafts, arbors, bearing races, gear splines, and so on, have one problem in common: how to do it faster and less expensively.
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Is Magnetic Workholding For You?
Holding metal parts with magnets is migrating from surface grinding to broader application in general metalworking processes, especially milling. Advances in magnetic technology are causing many shops to re-evaluate how they hang on to workpieces. Here’s a look at how magnets may be a viable workholding solution for your shop.
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Interlocking Serrated Surfaces Enhance Modular Fixturing
This pedestal-type workholding fixture matches its grooves and ridges naturally and automatically aligns the surfaces of the workpiece, making subsequent reclampings highly repeatable.
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Rethinking Indexers And Rotary Tables
Affordable indexers and fourth-axis rotary tables greatly enhance the capability of vertical machining centers. It’s almost as good as having a horizontal machining center.
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Improved Tool Changeover Time And Increased Tool Life For Turret Punching
A desire to reduce CNC punch press tool setup time and shorten product deliveries motivated this shop to invest in a new tooling system.
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