Trumpf standardizes on tool data system
Boost production efficiency while reducing time, waste and cost. A tool data management system.
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Texas shop goes for a spin
Increase machining consistency and reduce setup and changeover times to increase throughput. A multiple-pocket, selectable tool body.
Job shop likes ‘scream-free’ drilling
Eliminate unpredictable and premature tool chipping and enhance consistency and chip control when drilling 304 stainless steel. An adjustable drill that accepts double-sided indexable inserts with six cutting edges.
What kind of shark would you be?
Some shop workers never seem to get it right, laments Shop Operations columnist Tom Lipton in the August 2014 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.
Equations for enhancing cutting efficiency
Shop Technology columnist Christopher Tate employs equations to enhance cutting efficiency.
Diaphragm chucks offer high-end holding
Diaphragm chucks are ideal for thin-walled parts or parts made with delicate materials, according to the Workholding column in the August 2014 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.
Sharp attack: How needles and other medical sharps are ground
Spend enough time working in a machine shop and you're bound to pay a visit to the emergency room for a cut finger. First comes the sting as the ER physician injects you with a local anesthetic, then the tug of the thread as she drags the suturing needle, a type of surgical needle, through your skin. This traumatic experience is painful enough, but without the sharp edge imparted to those needles through special machines known as needle-point grinders, those sutures would feel as if the doc were using a darning needle from grandma's sewing kit.
Sonic shaper: Ultrasonic machining is a sound but unsung option
You may not have heard, but ultrasonic waves can help machine precise features into hard, brittle materials.
Testing: The ups and downs of wheel performance when creep-feed grinding
Results from testing aluminum-oxide vitrified-bond wheels and diamond wheels in three different bond systems show the proper diamond roll dresser design, application methods and wheel specification can help manufacturing engineers achieve optimal results from continuous-dress, creep-feed (CDCF) grinding.
Bremen Castings celebrates its 75th anniversary, but doesn’t look back
What do baseball legend Ted Williams slugging his first big-league dinger, Batman comics hitting the streets and Germany attacking Poland to launch World War II have in common? They all occurred in 1939, the same year Ellis Brown, Charles W. Kling and Harold Heckamen founded Bremen (Ind.) Gray Iron Foundry Inc.
Top finishers: Solutions for 10 of the most challenging deburring applications
Part complexity combined with difficult material properties make deburring a challenge for many part manufacturers.
Potent portables: Portable CMM arms bring sophisticated inspection to the shop floor
The basis of the portable CMM arm is to allow an operator to reach and touch the part to be measured with a hard probe and collect data.