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Showing 41 – 50 of 53 resultsAn emphasis on process rather than creating products is the goal for some metalworking companies these days.
TNS Machining (Muskego, Wisconsin) is both a prototype and production machining job shop. After working in the machining industry for many years, Thomas Rowinski, Jr. and his sons started this business in 1981 because they wanted to provide customers with specialized precision machined parts.
This manufacturer uses its EDM unit to make and sharpen form tools for its production equipment. Strategically, learning new skills in-house may lead to future commercialization of a value-added process not previously available. It could be a model for other shops.
Choosing the right tools and matching them to the correct operations and process techniques for micromachining applications is critical to success in this burgeoning market.
The addition of automatic tool changers (ATCs) brought more flexibility to the dial-transfer machine.
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.
In my last column, I asked: Why isn’t the United States subcontracting shops using multis? Some of the comments made by exhibitors at Italy’s 24th BI-MU machine tool exhibition in Milan added some good reasons why, if you have a shop full of two-axis production lathes, you may be living on borrowed time.
In the case of Webber Metal Products, upgrading the CAM system was all it needed in order to increase productivity and simplify complex part production.
Automating the honing process is key to high-volume precision bore production with sub-micron accuracy.
Capital improvement decisions can often be “no risk/no reward.” This shop passed on potential production equipment in favor of a new cleaning system and found great reward.
