Machine Tools

Lights-Out Benefits

Here are some pointers for working towards successful untended operations.

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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.  

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Workholding

Pallet-Transfer Multi-Spindle Machining Center Defies Classification

Increasingly, new machine tools are being developed that defy existing classification code by virtue of their multi-tasking capabilities.

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Investing For Success In Demanding Markets

This company constantly strives to uphold a quality reputation, stay lean and continue to expand its business. It attributes its most recent success to the addition of three Variaxis machining centers.

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Turning Toward The Future

This new machine tool represents the lastest in a new generation of CNC multi-spindle automatics. Its development was a clean sheet approach and the results are impressive.

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Swiss-Types

Software Bridges Gap For Dental Implant Manufacturer

This dental implant manufacturer has found the right combination of technology and personnel to help implement its changing philosophy rooted in the control of its manufacturing processes.

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Swiss Shop Shows Its Value

Open communication, preplanning and quality control go a long way in maximizing the productivity of this company’s Swiss machines.

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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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Turning Machines

Endworking Enhances Shaft Manufacturing Process

Because endworking is often considered only as a preliminary step for shaft work typical of the automotive industry, potential productivity gains are being passed by. Newer technology has enabled these machines to handle far more applications.

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Turning Machines

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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