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Moving Ahead with Forward Thinking
For companies to stand out from their competitors, they need to be lean manufacturers and believe in excellent customer service. These characteristics describe Innovative Precision Manufacturing (IPM) in Concord, Calif., a full service CNC machine shop 30 minutes east of San Francisco.
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Custom Turning with Only Two Operators
With only two people, the shop provides complete CNC mill-turn services plus CNC milling, CNC turning, inspection, prototyping, production and assembly.
Read MoreA ‘Green’ Parts Cleaning Option
As environmental concerns continue to motivate many shops to clean up their act, so to speak, it’s critical to know what options are available to clean your parts in both an efficient and environmentally responsible way.
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Flexible Honing Tool Finishes Cylinder Cavities
Not much metal finishing equipment that is used in factory production setups is also readily available and applicable to situations where precision secondary finishing is also required in the field.
Read MoreInternal Thread Whirling
Parts such as ballscrew nuts not only require external thread whirling, but intricate internal threading as well.
Read MoreHeat Treating Involves Several Material Changes
Heat treating involves changing the properties of metals that have different crystal structures at high and low temperatures.
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Multidiscipline CAM Helps Shop Respond Quickly to Customer Needs
Simplifying the machining process makes a shop more productive, and no shop knows this better than Carbide Products Inc. (Georgetown, Ky.). This job shop has reduced programming time and virtually eliminated programming errors by switching to Esprit software from DP Technology.
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Beating the Competition by Not Making Products
An emphasis on process rather than creating products is the goal for some metalworking companies these days.
Read MoreThe Heat is On
One manufacturing process that helps diminish these burrs is called thermal deburring, which uses heat energy to remove burrs.
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Clamping Devices Ensure Power Boost for Turbo Manufacturer
In order to efficiently manufacture more than 12,000 toothed parts with a range of dimensions having lot sizes of 1 to 50, a shop needs to focus not only on the cutting parameters, but also developing a strategy for handling the tremendous setup time.
Read MoreParts Cleaning with Vapor Degreasing
Vapor degreasing is an environmentally friendly way to clean parts because safe solvents are used during the process, or in some applications, no chemicals at all. Sometimes the steam or vapor produced by the system is enough to clean the parts.
Read MoreForm Tools Cost Effective for Some Applications
Many machining applications require custom solutions.
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