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Gaging Interest In Wireless
One area where wireless might provide an attractive alternative to wired solutions is in gaging for quality control. Collecting and analyzing data is becoming more and more pervasive.
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Boost Throughput With Multitasking
As a shop’s typical workload moves beyond high-production turned parts, new ways to reduce leadtimes and improve machining accuracy are evolving.
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Energy Trends In Manufacturing
Every once in a while, I get to see a report from a branch of the United States government that reinforces my feeling that all of us in manufacturing are way ahead of the bureaucrats in Washington. This week, I received a Manufacturing Sector Report from the Environmental Protection Agency covering motor vehicle parts manufacturing. (View the report at www.epa.gov/sectors/energy/index.html.)
Read MoreA Cool Way To Cool
With increasing regulations on handling and use of metalworking fluids, the industry needs to look at other options to help resolve the contradictions between the need for cooling lubrication and the requirements for cleaner, safer technology.
Read MoreOEM Transitions To Contract Manufacturer
An example of a perfect match, from one of the first customers Tier One landed, was a contract for 10,000 gearbox housings used in a stomach-suturing instrument. The process plan called for one operation on a CNC Swiss-type turning center and two additional operations on a CNC mill.
Read MoreThe Joyful Dawn of a New Era
A successful cleaning process removes soil without leaving harmful residue and damaging the product. By using a consumer or household product in an industrial or critical cleaning process, you may sacrifice productivity and increase costs.
Read MoreConsider A Programmable Guide Bushing
An example of the "set it and forget it" guide bushing adjustment is a programmable guide bushing available on Traub’s TNL series by Index Corp. It offers the ability to program the CNC to provide a series of guide bushing pressures on the bar based on dynamic conditions.
Read MoreVertical Turning Proves Profitable
A precision machined parts manufacturer augments its production turning operations by expanding its CNC equipment and infrastructure to include vertical turning of large parts. The result has been a lucrative—and growing—additional revenue stream.
Read MoreIncreased Control For Programmers
Here is a CAD/CAM system designed to be inviting to programmers, with a comfortable interface, integrated guides and a learning mode to facilitate operation and allow the shop to start creating tool paths—and turning parts—as quickly as possible.
Read MoreWalt Disney World: A Model For Precision Manufacturing
What can a manufacturing person learn from Walt Disney World to help with his manufacturing business? PMPA members learned the following from the Management Update Conference recently held at Disney World in Orlando.
Read MoreDear Industry Shrink
Dear Miles, I am writing to you anonymously to address a phenomenon that I have witnessed during the almost 20 years that I have been in the precision machined products industry. Since I consider you the "Dear Abby" of the PMPA, I felt there was no other person more qualified to address my observations.
Read MoreComplete In One Chucking
Compared to barstock, castings, forgings and sawn blanks present a different set of workhandling challenges for production machining. This article looks at how Hydromat Inc. is meeting these challenges on its rotary transfer machines with engineered indexing workholders.
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