Tooling
Kyocera Turning Inserts Provide Fracture, Wear Resistance
The KBN010 high-speed CBN grade gives users more flexibility, range, performance and tool life when turning hardened materials.
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Tungaloy Boring Bar System Features Vibration Dampening
The BoreMeister boring bar system features a variety of exchangeable heads and shanks for internal turning, profiling, threading and grooving.
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SMW Mechatronic Grippers Automate Key Processes
The Motiact mechatronic gripper series is designed to perform precise, consistent, accurately monitored gripping operations in automated work cells.
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Job Shop Discovers and Fills a Fishing Need
The promise of a product line for improved mounting of electronic fish finders led this Missouri job shop to an automated turning process.
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Broaching Tool Technology For Lathes Used to Slot Inconel Parts
This shop finds value in using an indexable-insert-style broaching tool to create blind-hole slots in heat-treated Inconel aerospace parts on a CNC lathe.
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Destaco Electric Power Clamps Enable Flexible Production
The 92W series electric power clamps feature integrated intelligence to reduce the need for additional components.
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Tool Path Improves Chip Management for Swiss-Type Lathes
This simple change to a Swiss-type turning machine’s tool path can dramatically improve its ability to manage chips.
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Addressing Micro-Boring Challenges
This boring bar/tool holding system for Swiss-type lathes is said to offer high rigidity and positioning repeatability. In addition, the boring bars can be changed out using no hand tools.
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Parting Off: The Case for Standardizing on Sawing
The value of rotary saw cutting for parting off operations could boil down to simple economics paired with process efficiency gains.
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Tungaloy Modular Turning System Provides High Repeatability
The ModuMiniTurn tool system incorporates a specialized coupling mechanism between the modular head and tool shank.
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