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Making It Big In Small Parts
This New Hampshire manufacturer is an expert in manufacturing small, complex parts. Having a niche is one solid strategy for survival, but it takes dedication, focus and technology to pull it off.
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Swiss Democracy
Many builders of Swiss-type moving headstock machines have introduced models that do not require the use of a guide bushing to support the workpiece.
Read MoreCelebrating Labor’s Freedom
I see Labor Day as being about learning as well as working. It’s about each of us practicing the freedoms we have to work by using the freedoms we have to learn new things. The economic freedom we each have to market our value is a function of how marketable that value is. No central planners are going to tell us what to do if the market for us changes.
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Bar Feed Considerations For High-Speed, Lights-Out Machining
There are design elements incorporated into today’s 12-foot, magazine-load bar feeders that make them more useful for high-speed and untended operation. This article looks at some aspects to consider before purchasing a 12-foot bar feeder.
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For Plateau Honing, Consider Ball Style
The ball-style hone is a specialized abrasive tool that is instantly recognizable by its unique appearance. For engineers in the automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and machining industries, this application-engineered hone, characterized by the small, abrasive globules that are permanently mounted to flexible filaments, is a flexible, low-cost tool for sophisticated surfacing, deburring and edge blending.
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No Touch Up Needed For ER Collet Tools
Downtime, long setup times and hiring skilled employees for night shifts are some of the problems every shop has. In its shop, American Torch Tip has completely integrated the quick-change tool system and drastically reduced those problems by developing a system that will go in any ER-style holder. Tools can now be preset off the machine, during the first shift and while the machines are running.
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Integrating Machining Centers Into The Work Flow
Often, the need for post-process machining becomes a bottleneck in the production shop. The high-volume primary machines often outpace the ability of secondary equipment to keep up. Here’s how one shop revamped its work flow to achieve production balance with a minimum investment.
Read MoreLet The Bidding Begin
There needs to be balance between the tax breaks we give and the taxes we need to keep the quality of life in a community or state at a level that will keep people wanting to live there.
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Gantry Takes Hands Out Of Part Handling
Automating material delivery and removal from the machining process is one key method of taking some of the production cost from manufacturing. Iemca, known for automating machine tools with its line of bar feeders, has introduced a new gantry system for chucked parts.
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You Can Pick Your Family
It is said that you can pick your friends and pick your wife, but you can’t pick your family. In general, this is true. An exception is family businesses. One can pick the family he or she works for.
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A Vacuum Cleaner For Machined Parts
The traditional process for removing cutting oils from parts has involved the use of chlorinated solvent-based cleaning systems. While such open-tank vapor degreasing with solvent-based cleaning technology works quite well, it is increasingly subjected to environmental regulations for emissions and disposal.
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In-Machine Gaging Automates Part Inspection
SPC Innovations' line of in-machine gages may provide an automated solution to some of the issues with post-process inspection.
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