Articles

Toolholders

Turning Heads with Presetters

As lathes and turning machines pivot toward quick-change tooling models from traditional stick tools, presetters present benefits of keeping chips flying while reducing human error and increasing precision.

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Parts Cleaning

Vapor Degreasing Fluid Meets Aerospace Application Requirements

The development of environmentally safe, yet effective solvents has kept vapor degreasing at the forefront of cleaning operations for metalworking.

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Toolholders

8 Easy Tips for Spindle and Toolholder Hygiene

A minute chip floating in coolant swarf left to dry on a toolholder taper can eventually become a serious interference at the machine tool spindle-toolholder interface.

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A Handy Resource for Capital Equipment

A Handy Resource for Capital Equipment

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Swiss-Types

Medical Machining is in the Genes

Sometimes it’s difficult to stay away. This company is an example of a precision machining family that simply can’t stop doing what it does.

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Fire Blazes Path to Shop Safety

This shop doesn’t let its first mistake happen again after purchasing a fire suppression system.

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Workholding

e-Technology Energizes the Future of Gripping and Clamping

This clamping and gripping system incorporates electrically powered steady rests, clamping heads, grippers, cylinder systems, clamp release units and tool locking systems.

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Automation

Single-Cell Automation Simplifies Shop's Growing Production

Ask Michael Olano, president of Dynomach Inc., how to be a profitable high-volume production shop. His answer: self-contained, single-cell automation, or more specifically, twin-spindle machines outfitted with bar feeders and automatic parts catchers.

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Parts Cleaning

Craftsman's Cribsheet: Three Contributors to Plating Problems on Steel Parts

Plating difficulties are invariably related to three potential contributors: inadequate cleaning, insufficient stock removal and features of the part being plated.

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Technical Training for Employees Factors into Company Success

Griffith Training provides in-plant training and consulting for quality, productivity and improvement for manufacturers.

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Basics

Deal Differently with Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty

Let's take a look at the differences between certainty, risk and uncertainty, examples of each, and how we make decisions when faced with these situations. 

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Parts Cleaning

Precision Parts Cleaning: Secondary No More

In our February issue, we will include a parts cleaning section that features products, processes and services to help make shops better aware of the latest technologies in the parts cleaning field.

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