Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing

Machine tool requirements for cutting large, lightweight titanium parts. Machining centers fulfill demand for heavyweight machining of difficult-to-cut, lightweight workpieces.

New machine tool maintenance products and services focus on uptime.

Special plant for building ultraprecise machine tools.

Big machine tools for making big parts.

Machine tool builder and its micromilling machine.

STEP-NC: A more advanced, data-rich language designed to overcome the current standard for defining the movement of machine tool axes.

Reviews of new turning centers from five machine tool builders.

Machine tool builders continue to improve the capabilities of mill/turn centers.

By fostering creativity and teamwork among its equipment suppliers, an auto parts maker creates cost-effective automation technology.

In the past, tool resharpening got a bit of a bum rap: It was better, perhaps, than throwing the tools away, but the resharpened tools weren't likely to achieve the same longevity as new ones. Today, resharpened tools can often achieve the same lifespan as new ones, and resharpeners can improve their customers' tool usage in other ways as well.

New equipment allows deposition of hard and tough nanocomposite tool coatings.

Application-specific PCBN grades enhance metalcutting operations.