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Clean Up Your Act With An Aqueous Parts Cleaning System
To give your parts a high level of cleanliness, it’s important to choose the most efficient parts cleaning method for your shop’s application. One method, aqueous parts cleaning, is an environmentally friendly, less toxic process (compared with its petroleum-based counterparts) that uses water-based solutions that do not contain hazardous volatile organic compounds and are non-flammable.
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Shop Saves Time, Money By Moving Part Finishing In-House
Today’s highly automated machining centers deliver completed parts faster than ever. However, once a part is machined, if the next step requires finishing, time gained on the machining end can be lost on the finishing end. This has changed for motion control component manufacturer Zero-Max Inc.
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Efficient Deburring Leads To Improvements
Although burrs may be the last concern that an engineer or machinist thinks about when focusing on a part’s tolerances and production rate, deburring plays a large role in producing a quality product. And when a deburring process becomes cumbersome, time consuming and costly, it is time to reevaluate the operation.
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Cutting Tool OEM Races To Supply Productivity Gains
As the owner and president of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, he oversees teams on NASCAR’s Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series as well as the Indy Racing League and Automobile Racing Club of America circuits. Throughout Mr. Ganassi’s entire career as an owner, he has continued to raise the innovation bar with a constant search for a better way to do things.
Read MoreThread Rolling: A Non-Metalcutting Operation
Thread rolling is unlike a typical metalworking operation in that it does not cut metal. Instead, it forms a thread into a mirror image of a roller die.
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Software And CNC Package Improves Production By 15 Percent
With a unique part program software suite onboard a powerful CNC, one shop has found it’s producing more and better parts much faster on a recently acquired turning center.
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Specialty Company Knows Its Collets
For almost 3 years Mr. Bouchard struggled with a machine application designed to produce life-critical airbag parts for Arrow Machine’s primary client in the automotive industry. With the help of RH Collets, a manufacturer of specialty workholding and related components for Hydromats and other machinery, Mr. Bouchard is solving the problem—not with one new part but with a series of solutions.
Read MoreMedical Edge: Thread Whirling
When my father slipped and fell on an icy parking lot 5 years ago and broke his hip, I would have never thought that someday I would be writing about how the screws surgically implanted in his hip bone were created on a metalworking machine. During the healing process, Dad had some irritation problems with the scre
Read MoreRotary Broaching Defined
For people like me without a background in metalworking, it is often hard to find the meaning of industry terms that most of you don’t think twice about. For instance, the term “rotary broaching” is one that I often see, but didn’t know the meaning of. If I wasn’t dealing with the metalworking industry, I would hav
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Wired For Success
Like a company’s production equipment, a facility’s software and hardware must be able to keep up with its growth and technology. ERP systems are a good example of this, even though it may take a little bit of shopping around to find exactly what’s needed.
Read MoreShop Races Ahead Using CAM Software
In 1998, race car driver Robby Gordon wanted to make his own racing components, so with partners Larry Novak and Larry Kaford, he opened SR Machining in Anaheim, California. CNC Programmer Warren Myers arrived the first day, an hour before the shop’s first machine, a two-axis lathe. Because race car parts were insufficient to keep the lathe running at full capacity, the shop split its time evenly between racing components and parts for customers.
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Universal Lathe Improves Turning Capability
Peter Brotherhood (Peterborough, United Kingdom), a steam turbine manufacturer, recently discovered a bottleneck when turning a range of power-generation components. When the company implemented a Gildemeister CTX 620 V4 linear universal turn-mill center by DMG, however, the problem fixed itself.
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