Easy to be hard: Medical Manufacturing
Milling plastics is just easy enough to be difficult.
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Finish line: Drilling Performance
Finishing hardened workpieces on multitask machines that provide grinding and hard turning and/or hard milling capabilities can prove beneficial.
External thread milling
Productive Times. End user: Mitchel & Scott Machine Co. Challenge: Cut thread milling cycle time. Solution: A shell-type thread milling cutter head. Solution provider: JBO-USA, (248) 879-5984.
Grinding burs
Productive Times. End user: Specialty Carbide Products. Challenge: Productively and consistently grind carbide burs. Solution: A CNC grinding machine integrated with a robot for loading/unloading. Solution provider: Excalibur Tool Inc.
Proactive progress: Industry Trends & Analysis
Productives Times: Proactive progress. End user: Ford Motor Co., Lima Engine Plant. Challenge: Improve productivity and maximize quality when machining aluminum heads. Solution: Replaceable-head reamers with PCD cutting edges. Solution provider: Mapal Inc.
Grinding burn reduction
Grinding Doc column for December 2009 issue.
Material difference: Drilling Performance
Part Time column for December 2009 issue.
Cutter sources: Drilling Performance
Shop Operations column for December 2009 issue.
Correcting thermal errors: Turning Performance
Machine Technology column for December 2009 issue.
Silver lining at the end of a crazy year
Manager's Desk column for December 2009 issue.
Back from the brink: Medical Manufacturing
The metalworking industry sustained a body blow in 2009, but it's getting back on its feet as 2010 nears.
Grinding: A pictorial odyssey, part II
A further examination of the grinding process through the lens of an electron microscope.
