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Considerations for Bringing Passivation In House
If passivation is often required by your customers, moving this process in house can save time and money. However, it involves proper chemical handling and safety, compliance, equipment design and setup, and budget.
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CNC Machine Shops: Help Production Machining Help You
While our magazine’s editors keep up with CNC machining industry trends and technology, we remain open to hearing about article topics that you feel will help your business grow and become more efficient. Your feedback is welcome.
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Particle Analysis Evolves with Cleanliness Specifications
Cleanliness analysis equipment has become more advanced as testing and reporting particle contamination levels have become more critical.
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Human-Like Robot Automates Secondary Machining Operations
Two seven-axis robots enable two second-op mills to run lights out eight hours in the evenings to win 64 hours of unattended machining time per week for this Ventura, California, shop.
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Ventilator Crisis — Clippard Delivers for Ford
Clippard Instrument Laboratory Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio, harnessed their talent, experience, capabilities and PMPA network to deliver 50,000 sets of ventilator parts to Ford Motor Company.
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The Most Common Types of Finishing Services for Precision Machined Components - Part 1 of 2
Cribsheet provided by PMPA member, Pioneer Service Inc. in Addison, Illinois
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Why a CNC Multi-Spindle Machining Center Makes Sense for MetalQuest
An early adopter of multitasking equipment, this Nebraska contract manufacturer has taken what it feels is the next logical step to diversify by adding a multi-spindle for greatly reduced cycle times on an existing high-volume job.
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Network Quickly Connects Machine Shops with Repair Estimates
This network connects service requesters to service providers and can be a fast way for a machine shop of any size to quickly compare estimates.
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Leadership Problems in a Digital Age
Business leaders may need to help employees develop communication skills which may be lacking due to the human disconnect created by the 21st-century digital age.
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Filmic/Chemical Cleanliness Becoming Just as Important as Particulate Cleanliness
Glued, sealed, welded and coated parts require clean, adherent surfaces in addition to specified particulate cleanliness. This article offers advice on how to clean these parts effectively.
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How Diligent Are You About Toolholder, Spindle Cleanliness?
Big Kaiser offers insights in how to best clean and maintain cutting tool assemblies to ensure CNC machine tools operate at optimum performance.
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Gaging’s Value for Effective Unattended CNC Machining
Process control is a bigger deal for high-volume CNC machining operations to eliminate scads of scrap/rework because a problem was not identified early on.
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