Machine Tools

Selecting The Right Shaft Coupling

When designing machinery, how do you begin to select the right coupling for a drivetrain application? How do you find one that will not only compensate for misalignments in the joined shafts but will also provide the flexibility, torque capacity, corrosion-resistance and other performance capabilities that the application requires? Here’s a case in point that provides some of the answers.

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Slashing Secondary Ops With New Swiss CNCs

This company employs 55 people. As labor costs have continued to grow, ownership has begun to realize that the only way to maintain profit margins is to become more efficient. Analyzing the operation, they've honed in on eliminating, or it least drastically reducing, secondary operations.

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Programming Multitasking Machines?

Applying the right tools and technique to CNC part programming will let shops get the most out of their multitasking equipment.

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Finishing Those Near-Net-Shape Parts

CNC lathes and machining centers provide the finishing touch for near-net-shape semiconductor housing parts.

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Using CNC On Cam Multis

Much buzz around the industry is focused on how best to apply CNC in multispindle screw machine shops. Some advocate total commitment to the technology, while others believe a mixture of mechanical and electronic actuation is the ticket. We visited multispindle builder Euroturn to see how it decides what an appropriate level of CNC and mechanical actuation is.

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Machine Both Shaft Ends Simultaneously

If your production operations include shaft work, you will want to know about this rotary transfer machine, which produces up to 30 shafts per minute by machining both shaft ends simultaneously.

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Scratching Surface Flaws With Automation

Machining parts complete on CNC multi-spindles, with automatic load and unload, is proving the key to nick- and scratch-free parts for this tier-two auto parts maker.

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New Swiss Turning Technology Boosts Productivity For Contract Manufacturer

Technically, this control is not a CNC, but a PNC (parallel numerical control), and that is the difference. The PNC control was developed using a FANUC system that allows each machine axis to be governed by its own chip, which carries the part program.

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So, You Need To Automate Your Multispindle...

You can't decide if you need an integrated loader or a stock reel loader. You've boiled it down to a space versus cost decision. Now what do you do? You basically have two choices: the stock reel loader or an integrated loader.

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Swiss Machines Power Shop's Growth

Wright Technologies, Rosemont, Illinois, is a contract manufacturer that specializes in turned and milled parts in prototype to production quantities.

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