Workholding
Accurate Barstock Alignment Provides Faster Speeds
Recent developments in sliding-headstock turning machines allow for faster feed rates and higher spindle speeds—both aimed at increasing throughput to improve productivity. Sometimes, though, these machines cannot reach their full potential because of other equipment that runs in conjunction with it.
Read MoreApplications Determine Workholding Solutions
Every turning application has a number of factors that should be considered when making the decision between a collet or a three-jaw chuck.
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Workholding Advantages Of Barstock
Barstock is versatile raw material. It’s easily held, easily fed and has significant capacity for many parts per bar. Usually we think of barstock and bar feeders in relation to turning machines. What about applying the advantages of automatically fed barstock to a vertical machining center?
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Rotary Indexing System Offers Wireless Program
Hardinge Inc.-Workholding Div. has configured its all-digital 5C rotary indexing system with infrared (IR) "send and receive," which is said to elevate program control and editing to new levels. This capability uses handheld computers with a Pocket PC operating system.
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Productivity Increases With Automatic Short-Load Bar Feeder
This company was skeptical about replacing its 12-foot bar feeders with an automatic, short-load system until it tested one manufacturer's system.
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One Guide Channel, No Spindle Liners
It’s only 5 years old, but bar feed manufacturer Top Automazioni is growing fast. On a recent visit to the company headquarters in Italy, I found out first hand how technology has developed faster change-over of bar feeders and how it is fueling demand.
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Workholding Collets And Factors That Affect Grip Force
The phenomenon of the staying power of the collet, in light of the rapidly changing technology in machine tool design, is attributed to the utility and the elegant simplicity of the device. The collet is a small but powerful component for the machine tool industry, incorporating all of the these features.
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Turning On To Compact Bar Feeders
Compact bar feeders deliver the performance and capacity needed for this turning cell to run in a largely unattended mode.
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Custom Collets Help Blind Bolt Shop Maintain Part Quality And Concenctricity
For their larger diameter fasteners, this manufacturer uses a custom-manufactured collet to control part quality and concentricity.
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Bar Handling Made Easy
DuPage Machine Products, Inc., Bloomingdale, Illinois, puts the TV strongmen to shame every day by moving thousands of pounds of steel thousands of feet—without breaking a sweat. He has a readily accessible material storage system and a crane system that enables him to deliver bundles of barstock from storage to any production screw machine in the shop.
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