Tooling

Tool And Die Shop Doubles Throughput On Steel Tubing Grooving

With their conventional high-speed steel milling cutters, this shop experienced a series of problems producing critical axial grooves in steel tubings.

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Milling Tools

New Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes

New Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes.

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Holemaking

Making Automated Drilling Affordable

When this New Jersey shop started to machine large quantities of its casting, the choices of drilling and tapping spindles were numerous. They finally based their selection on service and technical support.

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Low Cost Turning Automation Yields A High Rate Of Return

Two CNC lathes, with live tooling, tool monitor, and auto-load short-bar bar feeders are helping this California manufacturer compete. They've seen impressive reductions in throughput time and manufacturing costs. And, they're just getting started.

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Multi-Directional Turning System Quadruples Output Rate

Here's a look at a production machining contractor utilizing state-of-the-art CNC machine tools to produce components for suppliers and OEMs in the automotive, transportation equipment, and machine tool industries.

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Should You Balance Your Tools?

Should you balance your tools? The answer varies from process to process. Experience is the best guide.

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Improving Milling Throughput By 50 Percent With 'Wrong' Insert

This company will save at least $87,500 per year by changing over to positive rake cutter and inserts for milling a family of ductile iron couplings. Cycle time per part has dropped one third, elevating production from four to six parts per hour.

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High Automation for Low Volume

Many people think flexible machining cells are for high production, but this shop finds just the opposite. Here's how they've grown their cell to meet the needs of their work.

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Drill And Bore With A Face Mill

Cutting holes by interpolating a face milling cutter may be a better process choice for many rough and even finish boring operations. Software improvements and better cutter designs allow expanding use of the versatile face mill for hole making.

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Power Workholding For High-Flexibility Production

By combining creative fixturing with power workholding, Carr Lane Mfg. Co. has achieved dramatic reductions on the parts setup time, handling time, and transport time between machines. To achieve these results the company selected horizontal machining centers so that the multiple part faces could be machined without

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