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Tooling
Chuck Selection: How The Experts Capture Optimum Efficiency
The factors considered by experienced workholding engineers reveal that choosing the right lathe workholding isn't a matter of meeting, but of exceeding, expectations.
Read MoreAerospace On A Diet
The difficulty of close tolerance finishing in both high temperature alloys and titanium is particularly real in the Aerospace industry, where thinwall construction is becoming more common. Read how an insert gave this shop an edge.
Read MoreFlexible Unattended Machining Helps Improve Part Quality And More
In its desire to use new methods, the shop looked for a product that would increase tool life, improve part quality and decrease changeover time. It found the One-Touch flexible manufacturing system (FMS) from Okuma and became the first to own one.
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Tooling Tips For High Productivity Milling
Today's machining centers feature higher spindle speeds and feed rates, but if you want to push this capability to the limit, there are some tooling considerations that must be addressed.
Read MoreNew Treatment Extends Tool Life
Heat is the major enemy of the cutting tool. Tool life is a measure of how long an individual edge can effectively hold up to the temperatures and pressures that are generated in the cutting zone.
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This Job Shop Found Success with Swiss-Type Turning
This northern Ohio job shop is very good at making parts on Swiss-type machines. It's evolved the business from manual engine lathes to lights-out manufacturing. Success didn't come easily, but it has indeed come to this shop.
Read MoreRestarting A Program After Breaking A Tap
It's common to have to rerun tools. If you find a problem during the program verification with the eighth tool, for instance, you'll want to restart the program from the beginning of tool number eight rather than having to rerun the entire program just to get back to that point.
Read MoreMold Maker Reduces Cycle Time 50 Percent With New Drilling System
Despite a 120 hour week and frequent overtime, Special Mold Engineering Inc. (Rochester Hills, Michigan) didn't have enough deephole drilling capacity to keep up with customer demand for its injection mold bases. So it reluctantly farmed out some of the gundrilling for the excess.
Read MoreBolt-On Productivity
Retrofitting an auxiliary pallet changer allowed this shop to get 'horizontal-like' production efficiency out of a vertical machining center.
Read MoreGetting High Part Yield, Rigid Part Clamping And Low Workholding Cost
JBJ Manufacturing mostly machines heavy parts of iron and steel used in drive trains and other systems for construction and agricultural equipment. The parts range from an inch square to parts longer than two feet. The company machines them in runs of just four or five parts up to 500 pieces. To be efficient and profitable with this kind of work, JBJ needed to take a creative approach with its workholding to be fast and flexible.
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