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Forkardt Hardinge Swiss Workholding Provides Reliable, Consistent Performance

The company’s Swiss collets are designed to securely hold parts without marring surfaces, minimizing vibration to ensure smoother machining, enhanced accuracy and extended tool life.

100-mm Size Added to FlexC Quick-Change Clamping System

PMTS 2023: Hardinge’s FlexC 100-mm chucks and collets are available for purchase in Style A and Style DL variants.

How Important Is the Look of Your Machine Tools?

Performance comes first, but there is value in equipment having a modern appearance, especially in terms of attracting potential young employees and engaging customers.

Production Machining’s November 2022 News Highlights

Production Machining’s November 2022 news highlights include an event partnership update, industry award, new on-the-job training process, support for manufacturing training, software collaboration and company expansion.

Vertical Machining Center Designed for Flexibility

IMTS 2022: Hardinge’s Bridgeport XR1000 VMC is said to be well suited for machining everything from simple workpieces and quality molds/dies to complex prismatic parts.

Hardinge Talent 42/51 Multitasking CNC Lathe Offers High-Speed, Fine Surface Machining

The machine includes featuring iHMI and high-speed, fine surface machining capabilities.

Video: Machine Shop Creates Robot Machining Cell Before There was Work for It

This machine shop’s self-integrated robot was purchased without a project in mind. However, when a particular part order came in, the robot paired with the proper machine tool was an optimal fit for the job, offering consistency and an increase in throughput.

Production Machining's February 2021 News Highlights

Esprit launches on-demand learning center, TIMTOS plans hybrid event, GWS acquires Taurus Tool & Engineering, and other industry news.

The Anatomy of a CNC Machine IoT Solution

Industry 4.0 is bringing sweeping changes to manufacturing and IIoT is one of its enabling technologies. Early adopters are reaping the benefits.

VIDEOS: PMTS 2019 In-Booth Demos, in Case You Missed Them

Find videos from in-booth demonstrations from Absolute Machine Tools, Edge Technologies, Gosiger, Hardinge, Index Corp., Marubeni Citizen, Tsugami, and ZPS.

Emerging Leader Ryan Ervin Strives to Modernize Sales Tactics

Modernizing sales processes and using technology to improve simple sales tasks is important to Ryan. Therefore, he stays abreast of the latest technology by being an active member of industry associations.

Production Machining 2018 Emerging Leaders

Young professionals are a vital asset to the precision machined parts industry, and it is important to acknowledge those who are making strides toward shaping the industry’s future. Production Machining is recognizing our industry’s young talent who were nominated by their peers through our new Emerging Leaders program.

Heimatec Sells Tecnicrafts' Products for Swiss Turning

Heimatec Inc. is selling collets and guide bushings from Tecnicrafts Industries that are exclusively used for Swiss turning applications.

Hardinge Webinar Focuses on Achieving Turning Tolerances

Bill Clark, an application engineer with Hardinge, spoke about turning tolerance requirements during a webinar on April 25. Listen to the recording, if you missed the live webinar.

Flex Grip is One Closer with Four Workholding Solutions

Lexair’s Flex Grip manual/hydraulic closers are clamped through a screw pump with a spring return opening and a parts stop disk is inserted and removed from the top to eliminate the need to remove the closer from the mounting base.

PMTS 2017 Slideshow

The ninth Precision Machining Technology Show (PMTS) opened yesterday to record crowds and the largest exhibit hall in show history. Here are some photos from the first day and a half. There's still time to attend the precision machining industry's signature event. Register Today at PMTS.com.

Subspindle Workholding Options

The advent of subspindle turning operations has impacted throughput for many shops. Understanding workholding options available for backworking can help a shop make better decisions when specifying how to hold parts for op. 20.

Merging Turning and Automation

Hardinge Inc. recently demonstrated automated production of hydraulic spool valve housings on its T51 MSY SP Super-Precision turning center.

Shared Tooling

What tooling do a multi-spindle automatic, a CNC lathe and a vertical machining center have in common?

Hardinge Inc.

The company originally known as Hardinge Brothers was founded in 1890 by Canadians, Henry and Franklin Hardinge.

High Accuracy From Direct-Drive Rotary Technology

Consider direct-drive, high-accuracy rotary tables when applying fourth-axis machining capability on the shop floor.

High-Performance 5-Axis VMC

Hardinge’s XR-series of five-axis VMCs is offered in two configurations of precision and high precision to suit manufacturing requirements. This machine is positioned in the top of Bridgeport’s machining center portfolio.

Turning Center with Collet-Ready Spindle

The RS 51 MSY turning center with live tooling, C axis, Y axis and subspindle offers exceptional vibration control, thermal stability and accuracy, the company says. The turning center has a collet-ready spindle that uses a range of the company’s precision workholding devices and is designed to be hard-turning and hard-milling machine that economically produces complex hardened parts in a single setup. All RS Series models (RS 42, RS 51 and RS 65) feature the Eppinger Self Alignment (ESA) top-plate tooling system, allowing highly accurate tool positioning and directing cutting forces to the machine base, the company says.

Turning Center Categorization

With the number of turning centers on the market, matching a machine with the right capabilities for a shop's needs can affect price and performance. Thsi article looks at three levels of turning center capabilities and how each plays out various application specifications.

Direct Drive Rotary System Reduces Cycle Time

In the early 1990s, Mr. Langlois decided to set up a shop specializing in close-tolerance aerospace parts. A friend of his recommended that he consider a colleted-spindle turning machine and suggested that he look into Hardinge lathes. Mr. Langlois purchased a used Hardinge HNC lathe and began making aircraft landing gear bushings.

Want To Do Medical Work? Set Up To Perform

This Midwest manufacturer has found its niche in machining parts for the medical industry. Much of its success is attributable to its efficient use of single-spindle CNC turning centers. However, the company prefers to talk about what happens when the tool touches the metal, and let the results speak for themselves.

Tooling Up For Hard Turning

Hard turning isn’t hard to do. However, it does require an understanding of the process dynamics and a systematic approach to the tooling involved. This article looks at how proper preparation will deliver consistent, predictable hard-turning results.

One Lean, Mean, Metalcutting Machine

Increasingly, builders are responding to customer demands for part-processing flexibility and reduced part handling by designing machine tools capable of performing numerous operations within a single platform.

Precision Machine Shop Profits From New Six-Axis Swiss-turn CNC Lathes

This Connecticut shop makes precision parts for medical, automotive, telecommunications and aerospace customers. Five years ago, Devon began preparations for the future of precision machining.