Tooling
Faster Change-Overs Allow Focus On Machining
A creative Midwestern shop shows that its productivity edge runs all the way down to its relationships with vendor partners. With the right clamping and centering device, the company has been able to reduce workpiece change-over times by as much as 50 percent while improving rigidity and precision.
Read MoreThread Rolling: A Non-Metalcutting Operation
Thread rolling is unlike a typical metalworking operation in that it does not cut metal. Instead, it forms a thread into a mirror image of a roller die.
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Direct Drive Rotary System Reduces Cycle Time
In the early 1990s, Mr. Langlois decided to set up a shop specializing in close-tolerance aerospace parts. A friend of his recommended that he consider a colleted-spindle turning machine and suggested that he look into Hardinge lathes. Mr. Langlois purchased a used Hardinge HNC lathe and began making aircraft landing gear bushings.
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From Virtual To Reality
This article tells how a shop used infomation available on the Web to solve a tough production problem on its shop floor.
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Specialty Company Knows Its Collets
For almost 3 years Mr. Bouchard struggled with a machine application designed to produce life-critical airbag parts for Arrow Machine’s primary client in the automotive industry. With the help of RH Collets, a manufacturer of specialty workholding and related components for Hydromats and other machinery, Mr. Bouchard is solving the problem—not with one new part but with a series of solutions.
Read MoreMedical Edge: Thread Whirling
When my father slipped and fell on an icy parking lot 5 years ago and broke his hip, I would have never thought that someday I would be writing about how the screws surgically implanted in his hip bone were created on a metalworking machine. During the healing process, Dad had some irritation problems with the scre
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Successful Untended Operation
Machine tool accessories can make or break untended operation.
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No-Burr Threading Helps Shop Compete
With the switch from a ground top-notch tool to a pressed Ingersoll threading form tool on one high-volume job, Warren Screw Machine eliminated 2 minutes of hand deburring per part. Not incidentally, the company also lopped 20 seconds per part off the threading cycle.
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Automation In A Production Shop
Production turning automation is the beneficiary of increasingly powerful design and application tools. This makes it much easier to create automation that fits the application.
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