Articles

Articles • April 1, 2014 • Keith Jennings

Small items can have a big impact

Shop growth is much easier when your credit is solid, even with slight profitability, suggests Keith Jennings in his Manager's Desk column for the April 2014 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Articles • April 1, 2014 • Alan Richter

CAM program keeps pace with part complexity

Overcome a CAM system's limitations when transitioning to machining more complex parts. New CAM software.

Articles • April 1, 2014 • Alan Richter

Angle head key to keyway machining

Boost productivity when machining keyways into a Nitralloy steel cutting tool head. Switch the work to a vertical machining center and obtain a custom 90° angle head.

Articles • April 1, 2014 • Alan Richter

BUCHER Emhart Glass removes the bottleneck in parting off

Increase productivity when parting off a component. A new parting and grooving tool that practically tripled machining parameters.

Articles • April 1, 2014 • Tom Lipton

Defining the ‘welding shop’

My first experience with welding was when my dad taught me to stick weld in the basement of our home. When I was about 9 years old, he came home with a new welding hood. I remember asking him who the hood was for and being mortified when he said it was for me.

Articles • April 1, 2014 • Christopher Tate

Avoiding excessive cutting tool wear

The pressure to decrease costs and drive up profitability means getting every ounce of efficiency from machine tools and cutting tools. To this end, shops constantly strive to reduce cycle times and extend tool life. However, while pursuing these goals, it is easy to push tools past their useful life, allowing excessive wear and its corresponding problems to occur.

Articles • April 1, 2014 • Kip Hanson

Tips for using zero-point clamping systems

If your shop is looking for a low-cost, simple and effective way to reduce setup time, consider zero-point clamping.

Articles • March 1, 2014 • Thomas Van Hersh

Up in the valley

Valley Tool invests in high-performance machine tools to effectively compete and grow.

Articles • March 1, 2014 • Evan Jones Thorne

The tip line

New applications expand the range of replaceable-tip drills.

Articles • March 1, 2014 • Susan Woods

Metal Injection Molding Becomes a Go-To Manufacturing Process

Metal-injection molding has arrived as a way to manufacture small, complex parts.

Articles • March 1, 2014 • Alan Richter

‘Last word’ in machining

Omega Manufacturing specializes in challenging wire EDM work, but also offers one-stop parts manufacturing.

Articles • March 1, 2014 • Kip Hanson

Adapt and conquer

Adaptive control helps CNC machines produce more parts.