Tooling

Workholding

Dillon Reversible Hard Jaws Provide Secure Parts Gripping

The company’s reversible hard jaws are designed to decrease the time and cost of tool setups.

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Piezoelectric Sensor Technology: Moving Toward more Efficient Machine Monitoring

A new system that uses simple and compact force or strain sensors, which can be integrated inside toolholders or mounted on surfaces such as spindle housings, can facilitate CNC machine monitoring.  

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Automation

The Value of Auto Adjust Magazine Bar Feeders

This bar feeder is designed to offer the flexibility to enable CNC turning centers to perform short-run work that would otherwise require frequent setups over a range of barstock diameters.

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Cutting Tools

Sandvik Coromant Parting Tool Provides Improved Surface Quality

CoroCut QD Y-axis parting tools feature upgraded blades with no Y offset, providing easier programming and increased stroke.

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Cutting Tools

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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Cutting Tools

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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Automation

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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Workholding

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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Cutting Tools

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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Workholding

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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