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What’s the Right Bar Feeder for Your Machine Shop?
Machine shops likely have questions about what type of bar feeder makes most sense for their operational needs. One or more of these four might be floating around in your head.
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Precision Machining Technology Review: December 2024
Production Machining’s December 2024 technology showcase includes some of the latest technology from Hexagon, Kennametal, SmartCAM, Horn and SMW Autoblok.
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SMW Autoblok Workholding System Streamlines Changeovers
The TMS-2G system enables the operator to change the chuck in minutes accurately and securely, making it versatile for diverse metalworking requirements.
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Horn Grooving Tool Provides Process Reliability
The Mini 114 system is suitable for turning and copy turning of axial grooves.
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Tungaloy Boring Toolholder Features Advanced Chip Evacuation
The TungBoreMini series includes an optimized chipbreaker and an advanced internal coolant supply system, which features two dedicated outlets for effective cooling and chip evacuation.
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Kennametal Turning Tools Enhance Small Part, Medical Machining
TopSwiss Micro Boring Solid tooling and KCU25B turning inserts are well suited for the small parts and medical machining space.
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Machining’s Impact on Sustainability
Individual elements of the machining process such as machine tools, tooling and even CAD/CAM software play a role in overall machine shop sustainability. Observing the entire process especially when it comes to their influences on energy usage is key.
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Fast Change Tooling System Increases Spindle Uptime
This coolant-through tooling system replacement for the gang plate on a Swiss-type machine can save hours of spindle downtime per day as well as increase tool life and enhance chip control.
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Video Tech Brief: Shrink-Fit Collets Explained
For live-tool lathes, shrink-fit collets can speed setups while offering higher tool clamping forces.
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Video: The Value of Shrink-Fit Collets for Live-Tool Lathes
Offering reduced setup times, high runout accuracy and high clamping forces, shrink-fit technology for ER collets is now available for live-tool lathes.
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Monaghan Drills Optimize Chip Evacuation
MK Tools Rambo Speed Drills are well suited for high-speed applications where efficiency is key, including connecting rods, injection pumps, wheel carriers, guide wheel shafts and more.
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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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New Cutting Tool Technology Discovered at Paul Horn Open House
During a tour of the company’s campus in Tubingen, Germany, I and more than 3,000+ others were introduced to a number of new advances the company has made in cutting tool technology particularly as it relates to the medical industry.
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IMCO Carbide Tool Inc. End Mills for Faster Part Cycles
The M936 Pow-R-Feed series is designed to make various toolpath moves without slowing down, providing faster cycle times and more production.
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The Value of Dual Thread Whirling Units for Bone Screws
Dual thread whirling units on a Swiss-type enable it to produce medical bone screws with two different thread leads in one setup, eliminating the need for time-consuming, single-point threading.
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Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind
New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.
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Video Tech Brief: Bar Feeder Technology Optimized for Swiss-Types
This bar feeder design is said to offer high guidance quality with minimum vibration and noise development for sliding-headstock machines.
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Dillon's Extruded Aluminum Pie Jaws Maximize Contact Area
Eastec 2023: The company’s full-grip pie jaws are machined from aluminum barstock, meaning they have none of the porosity inherent with castings.
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Dillon's Full-Grip Chuck Jaws Reduce Part Distortion
Dillon full-grip jaws are ideal for high-speed machining, as well as precision boring, tapping, drilling and finishing across most industrial markets.
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VIDEO: Swiss Shop’s Choice of Collets Facilitates Backworking
This Swiss shop discovered workholding collets that satisfy the needs of its very small, delicate and complex medical parts production on the subspindle, making once impossible processes not only doable but more efficient and esthetically pleasing.
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Versatile Soft Jaw Introduces One-Size-Fits-All Technology
This soft jaw technology conforms to any part geometry and does not require removal from the machine tool when switching to a new job. It also saves shops setup and machining time, energy, and cost involved in the design and development of creating a custom soft jaw.
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OSG End Mills Perform in Range of Applications
The company has expanded its ExoCarb WXL-CR-EDS, A Brand AE-HFE-H, A Brand AE-N and Phoenix end mill series.
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H.B. Carbide Grade Improves Edge Security in High-Temperature Applications
H.B. Carbide Co. introduces the HB-710 grade for the machining of high-temperature materials, increasing edge line security and resistance.
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System 3R Workholding Lineup Provides Stable, Repeatable Clamping
System 3R’s self-centering vises and accessories are designed to provide high cutting performance and centering and repeat accuracy.
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Emuge-Franken's TIN Coated Thread Gages Improve Wear Resistance
Emuge-Franken USA expands its precision thread gages line with TIN coated gages featuring 3B class-of-fit.
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Tungaloy Cutting Inserts Enhance Internal Grooving Operations
Tungaloy-NTK America Inc. introduces the STV type insert for its TungShortCut internal grooving tool line, enhancing internal profiling and machining of complex shapes or narrow areas.
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Sandvik Coromant Parting, Grooving Concept Improves Stability, Chip Control
Sandvik Coromant’s CoroCut 2 with -RF geometry is designed for secure and high-precision profiling, eliminating the trade-off between chip control and optimized surface finish.
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Starting Small with Automation
Quick-change workholding and flexible robotic automation started this small shop on the path to success.
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Precision Machining Technology Review: October 2024
Production Machining’s October 2024 technology showcase includes some of the latest technology from Ceratizit, Kennametal, Mate Precision Techologies, Horn and Mazak.
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A Tooling Workshop That Was Worth a Visit
Marubeni Citizen-Cincom’s tooling and accessory workshop at IMTS 2024 offered a chance to learn more about ancillary devices that can boost machining efficiency and capability.
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Tooling Company Continues to Expand Offerings
Now representing six brands in North America, Platinum Tooling offers tooling and related accessories for a range of machine tool types, including CNC mills, lathes and Swiss-types.
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Precision Machining Technology Review: September 2024
Production Machining’s September 2024 technology showcase includes some of the latest technology from Expand Machinery, Paperless Parts, Monaghan Tooling Group, Walter USA and more.
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Calculate the Value of Thread Rolling for Yourself
Recent testing has shown that thread rolling can be more economical than thread cutting when producing 4,000 parts or more. A newly created calculator can help you to determine which might be the better option for your threading applications.
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