Barbara Schulz

Barbara Schulz European Correspondent

A Visit with Iscar's Jacob Harpaz

“I never thought I would work for Iscar for such a long time, but I was ambitious and always aiming to achieve more.”

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Taking CNC Multis to a New Level

A visit to EMO, should be on the top of anyone’s list to see the latest in machining technology.

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Automation

Index Eyes US, Chinese Automotive Market, Focuses on Digitalization

Preparing for the future means to keep pace with current trends, including highly productive multi-spindle machines, automation and Industry 4.0. As a result, the Index open house, held from April 24-27, in Reichenbach, Germany, was all about digital integration.

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Turning Machines

Turning Thin-Walled Aerospace Parts

To produce extremely small, complex, tightly toleranced, thin-walled precision components made of difficult-to-machine materials, such as high-tensile aluminum housing covers, Herrmann CNC-Drehtechnik is reinventing and improving its machining processes.

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Turning Machines

Rotational Turning Bypasses Grinding

In order to meet close tolerance specifications, most hardened parts are transferred from lathes to grinding machines for final machining. Rotational turning technology, however, eliminates grinding because of special kinematics between the rotating workpiece and a rotating tool.

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Automation

Cobots Are Coming to the Precision-Turned Parts Industry

The international bar turning machine tool show, Simodec 2018, held March 6-9 in La Roche-Sur-Foron, France, focused on man-machine interaction, connected machining, Industry 4.0 and automation, robotics and particularly cobotics.

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EMO 2017 Sets the Pace for Future Production

While the topic of Industry 4.0 took center stage in Hannover at the world’s largest metalworking trade fair, EMO 2017, Gardner's European Correspondent Barbara Schulz was on the lookout for what's new in production machining.

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Grinding

Using Grinding Versus EDM to Finish Form Tools

Finishing carbide inserts using EDM or grinding.

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Grinding

ID and OD Shoe Grinding for Thin-Walled Workpieces

Studer (United Grinding North America) has a solution to the tricky workholding problem of finish grinding close tolerances for roundness and concentricity of thin-walled rings and sleeves or a rolling element such as a bearing raceway. 

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Kyocera
Marubeni Citizen CNC
Techspex
Horn USA
Star swiss-type automatic lathes
SPC Innovations, In-machine gaging and attachments
Efficient, Durability, Advanced CBN Abrasives
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Efficient, Durability, Advanced CBN Abrasives