PM Blog
Making Small Parts
It still amazes me how small some of the parts can be in our industry. Although it looks like it might be just a chip, this medical component has an 8-thousandths hole through it with four mills along the sides.
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Why Tolerance is Minus on Bars for Machining
Bars are held to the minus side of each nominal dimension to ensure that they can pass through the nominal size hole, whether it be a bushing, pulley, gear, collet, support bearing or any similar application.
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Craftsman's Cribsheet: Drilling Problem Checklist
Problems with drills and hole-making are getting even more frequent as more jobs are being run in non-free-machining steels.
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The Best Indicator for Managing Your Shop
There are more ways to look at our businesses than strictly financial. Here are three other lenses to use for analyzing our businesses.
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John Halladay of Vectron Finds the Right Paths
Mr. Halladay employs strategic processes in running races as well as in running Vectron’s sales and quality through participation in PMPA.
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Are Our Customers the Conflict in 'Conflict Free?'
You are already an expert in a number of critical areas in your business. PMPA gives you a professional assist on managing regulatory risk.
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Win-Win Scenario Automates a High Volume Turning Operation
What started as a sales call from Bucci Industries to Methods Machine Tools evolved into a true success story at Gardner Denver's Fort Worth, Texas facility.
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Hard Turning with Inverted Vertical Turning Centers
When it comes to the machining of hardened surfaces, hard turning is a particularly efficient solution that, compared with grinding, offers a radical reduction of machining times and investment costs.
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While we can’t be as optimistic about much of the rest of the world at this time, we can take solace in the fact, relatively speaking, we are doing pretty well.
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Repeatability with Heavy-Duty Vertical Turning
Developments in vertical turning technology, such as multitasking functionality, have further increased these machines' relevance.
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Tool Grind Workholding System Limits Runout
Precision manufacturing requires minimal tool runout, but the amount of runout that is acceptable can be dependent on part tolerances and is often related to the size of the tool.
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