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Tooling
What's Possible At 10,000 RPM
High-value work doesn’t have to demand a high-cost machine tool.
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Hydraulic Clamping Shows Its Staying Power
This company discovered first-hand the inconsistencies of manual clamping, where two sides of the fixture were clamped with wrenches, occasionally resulting in parts shifting on the fixtures and sometimes leading to scrap. Learn how they 'fixed' things.
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Updated Workholding Improves Turning Performance And Speed
Many shops maintain old workholding on their lathes, and there is a loss of opportunity to increase productivity and repeatability. Workholding tends to be an afterthought. In reality, workholding can increase performance a great deal.
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Trends That Drive Cutting Tool Development
Cutting tools have highly engineered coatings and geometries for all types of manufacturing methods and materials.
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Sizing With Tool Nose Radius Compensation
Most turning center users use wear offsets for the purpose of holding size over the course of a production run. And with most of the tools used on turning centers (turning tools, boring bars, grooving tools, among others), all production run sizing should be done with wear offsets.
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Don't Touch That Tool
Tool measurement is critical to the metalcutting process. Exact knowledge of a cutter’s length, diameter, even profile, and the ability to measure and monitor these dimensions over time, can reduce variability and help optimize the process. Here’s a look at how non-contact tool measurement and breakage detection benefit your metalcutting process.
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Quicker Tool Change For Mills
This article examines a retrofitted mechanical drawbar system with a preset die spring that enables an operator to manually do what a machining center does automatically--change tools quickly.
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The Right Tool, Right Away
In-house custom tool grinding extends the reach of CNC machining.
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A Shop Preset For Productivity
The tool presetters at this shop are interfaced to its computerized tool inventory system as well as linked to the machine tools for direct downloading of offset data. Digital image processing at the presetters is the key.
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Stepping Out Of The Comfort Zone
Taking the BIG step that radically changes the way you do things is not for the faint of heart. It requires more than just a leap of faith. It requires hard work, thorough research and selecting technology that works so well you needn't think about that step once taken.
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