Building for Micromachining
Creating the machine tools that make microparts.
Editorial
Alan Richter
Alan Richter, a 40-plus-year veteran journalist, has spent the last 26 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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Big Parts, One Setup
Reducing setups and increasing safety by multitask machining large parts.
Long in the Thread
Features needed by thread mills to create long, internal threads.
Pump it Up
Pros and cons of waterjet cutting at the highest available pressure.
Convertible Swiss
Benefits of a sliding-headstock machine with no guide bushing.
Hole-some and Clean
Tool material and other requirements for effective drilling of composites.
Right Sized
Machine tool builder and its micromilling machine.
Index-A-Bore
Ways to best apply indexable-insert boring bars for small holes.
It’s a Blast
The role of microabrasive blasting when finishing implantable medical parts.
The Squeeze Is On
Ensuring accurate measurement of parts with ever tighter tolerances. As part tolerances continue to tighten across the board, accurately and consistently measuring them becomes more of a challenge.
Picture This: Mircoholes with Photoetching
Making microholes with a chemical process called photoetching.
The Sky’s the Limit
What manufacturers should do to become suppliers of aerospace parts. Making aerospace parts can be lucrative, especially while the industry is experiencing record-setting growth, but manufacturers need to be prepared before quoting those jobs.