A layered approach: General Industry Coverage
A new process for strengthening metals while making them more resistant to corrosion.
Editorial
Alan Richter
Alan Richter, a 40-plus-year veteran journalist, has spent the last 25 years covering the metalworking industry for Cutting Tool Engineering and currently serves as its editor-at-large. Contact him at [email protected].
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Email: alan@ctepubs.com
Published content
Vertically aligned: General Industry Coverage
Vertical machining centers play a central role in the growth of S&S Machine Shop.
Milling heads don’t get the shaft
Overcome excessive tool wear and poor surface finishes when machining flats on a steel truck shaft. A milling tool that exerts all cutting forces downward and cuts freely.
Shop cleans up its act with MQL
Eliminate excess coolant to improve shop floor safety and cleanliness. Minimum quantity lubrication systems.
Teflon on steroids: General Industry Coverage
The creation of superhydrophobic metals using femtosecond lasers.
Wave control: General Industry Coverage
New metamaterials that 'bend' acoustic and elastic waves.
Smooth roughing: Turning Performance
Software for high-efficiency roughing makes moldmaking faster, more efficient.
Micromachine for max accuracy
Accurately machine EDM electrodes used to produce micromolds for medical parts. A high-speed, high-precision, 3-axis micro milling machine.
Endmills that can take the heat
Efficiently machine stainless steel parts without breaking endmills. 6-flute, solid-carbide endmills.
Meeting a challenge: General Industry Coverage
Cast beryllium-aluminum parts.
Fine and stable core: General Industry Coverage
Ceramic core material that improves jet engine fuel efficiency.
Elements for successful endmilling
When an endmill efficiently makes chips, everybody is happy: the end user, the parts buyer, and the cutting tool manufacturer and distributor. Achieving that by having the tool follow the correct toolpaths and run at productivity-boosting parameters, however, requires an endmill with optimized geometry, substrate and coating.
