Articles

Keeping Manufacturing On-Shore with Machine Automation

Many American metalworking companies are making important decisions that are helping to keep manufacturing in the U.S., whether this means they are purchasing equipment that makes them more efficient or adapting their entire processes accordingly.

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Unleaded Brass May Be in Your Future

The trend in unleaded metals is to establish certification standards for plumbing and drinking products in an effort to reduce public exposure to lead.

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Turn-Mills

Are Bar Fed Machining Centers the Next Big Thing?

Advanced mill-turn machines with bar fed material handling can overcome several inherent weaknesses of production machining on vertical machining centers.

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Toolholders

Chip Control

I discovered that chip control actually means controlling chips as they are being cut off of a workpiece.

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Horizontal Axis Crushers Manage Tough Chips

There are a few shop processes that are necessary evils: One of them is chip management and removal.

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The Show Must Go On

According to AMT, the IMTS sponsor, more than 1,100 exhibitors are scheduled to come out of their bunkers to demonstrate what they’ve been working on for the last 2 years.

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The Franklin Partnership: PMPA's 'Boots on the Ground' in Washington, D.C.

PMPA’s latest advocacy effort intensified 3 years ago when it engaged The Franklin Partnership as its lobbyist in the nation’s capital.

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CAD/CAM

New Opportunities with CAM

A shop’s first steps into programming with CAM can be intimidating. But this company found success in fearless flexibility and the right software to fit its applications.

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Material Impacts on the Precision Machining Industry - June 2010

All of the crucial raw materials that we track are up double and triple digits compared to the same month last year. Material cost component of our manufactured products is up, and holding, but subject to variability of global forces as well as local and market demands.

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Cutting Tools

New Use of Hard Machining Can Replace EDM

Throughout the past decade, new developments in cutting tools and machining center technologies have opened the door for milling of complex component shapes and geometries in hardened materials previously accomplished through Electrical Discharge Machining.

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'Ferris Wheel' Machining

Trunnion machining is a type of rotary transfer machining whose plane of motion resembles that of a Ferris wheel.

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Turning Machines

Reducing Cycle Times with Vertical Turning

Here's a look at Emag's 250 platform, the company's latest lineup of inverted vertical turning lathes.

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