Automation & Robots

Integrated Solutions for Chip Removal and Fluid Filtration

Shops can easily view chips simply as waste, hardly giving a second thought to the disposal process and the potential related savings. By keeping an eye on the waste and choosing the most efficient methods of chip disposal, a shop can easily add to the bottom line through substantial savings.

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Keep Your Eye on the Ball

Whether the goal is lights-out production or simply maintaining a more refined machining process, monitoring systems and software can contribute a great deal to accomplishing success.

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Workholding

Bar Feeders Provide New Paths to Productivity

 The lastest advances in bar feeding can help you prepare for the coming manufacturing resurgence.  

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Automation

PM 101: Learn More with Lori--Inverted Vertical Turning

 Vertical turning technology has been around for over a century, but the idea to flip the position of the spindle and the toolholder is still relatively new. What’s great about vertical turning technology is that, by setting up a vertical turning station, a shop can automate more of a particular production activity, freeing up operators and increasing output at the same time.

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Turn-Mills

Turn-Mill Center Features Three Y-Axis Turrets

The company’s B765Y3 has more than 4" of Y-axis travel on all three turrets. Combined with the company’s standard tooling, customers can load as many as 144 cutting tools, allowing them to either machine several different parts without any change-over time or load several redundant cutting tools (using the company’s tool load software to detect tool wear and run “lights out”). The machine has 2.

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Bar Feeders

Bar Feeders with Synchronization

The Alpha ST 212 and ST 320 bar feeders provide reliability, stability and ease of operation, the manufacturer says. Model ST 320 feeds round barstock from 0. 12" to 0.

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Automation

Multi-Spindle Offers Eight Independent Spindle Speeds

The MultiSigma 8 × 24 produces complex parts in one setup. Eight independent spindles allow for high flexibility, while an integrated robot allows for the automatic unloading of parts into a pallet. The machine is supplied with the latest motorspindles, featuring synchronous motors.

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Automation

Tool Grinding Capability Key To Medical Success

 Making toold for surgeons is critical to the succesful use of orthedic implants. This Indiana shop succeeds because of its dedication to quality and application of the right machine tools for the job.

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Workholding

Rotary Parts Accumulator

This rotary collection device allows safe parts accumulation from untended bar-fed lathes. It is programmed to index with each part produced, collecting parts without allowing them to collide with one another.

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Bar Feeders

Lights-Out Benefits

Here are some pointers for working towards successful untended operations.

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