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Creep-feed grinding

Larry Marchand, vice president of the Profile Grinding Technologies Division at United Grinding Technologies, provides a brief look at the company's Magerle MFP 50, which features an automatic tool changer that enables grinding, milling and drilling in one setup.

October 9, 2012

Larry Marchand, vice president of the Profile Grinding Technologies Division at United Grinding Technologies, provides a brief look at the company’s Magerle MFP 50, which features an automatic tool changer that enables grinding, milling and drilling in one setup.

Beyond a product walk-through, the video gives context for why a combined process machine can matter on the shop floor. Bringing grinding, milling, and drilling together in one platform can reduce part handling, shorten handoffs between operations, and help maintain process continuity on parts that would otherwise move across multiple machines.

For manufacturers evaluating creep-feed grinding equipment, the short demo also shows how an automatic tool changer can support flexibility when the application moves between roughing, finishing, and secondary operations. It is a compact introduction to the type of workflow the Magerle platform is built to support.

Glossary terms in this article

  • creep-feed grinding
    Grinding operation in which the grinding wheel is slowly fed into the workpiece at sufficient depth of cut to accomplish in one pass what otherwise would require repeated passes. S…
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