Reverse-engineered parts hit the highway
Ensure custom motorcycle parts still seamlessly interface with OEM models after converting them from composites to metal. Scanning and CAD modeling services.
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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Published content
Automation marches on
Mobile robots for massive-part manufacturers.
Chatter-free finish: General Industry Coverage
A software application to identify and monitor chatter when machining.
Honing tech lifts aerospace business
Produce flight-critical hydraulic pumps more rapidly and precisely. A multifeed honing system.
Double shot of automation
Speed throughput when deburring and surface finishing vise components. Abrasive disc brushes applied via a machining center's automatic toolchanger.
No room for error: General Industry Coverage
Tap 100 2"-8 blind-holes without breaking the tap or scrapping a part. A tap engineered to effectively produce threads in holes more than ½" in diameter.
Honing in on cleanliness: General Industry Coverage
A wet blasting system that consistently hones edges and enhances coating adhesion on cutting tools.
Covert ablation: Medical Manufacturing
An advanced athermal laser machining process for producing Nitinol-based implants and other medical devices.
Strong finishers: Drilling Performance
When selecting a boring or reaming tool to finish a hole, the application is everything.
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.
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.
CAM program keeps pace with part complexity
Overcome a CAM system's limitations when transitioning to machining more complex parts. New CAM software.
