Developing a personal learning attitude
Shop Operations column for March 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.
Industry
Medical & Healthcare
On the cutting edge of measurement
END USER: BH Tool, (801) 908-0707, www.bh-tool.com. CHALLENGE: Ensure gaging accuracy. SOLUTION: An edge-finding gage. SOLUTION PROVIDER: Haimer USA LLC, (866) 837-3265, www.haimer-usa.com
TF410
TF410, the new fibre laser marking solution from Technifor Inc. is the entry-level version for medium- and large-run applications: automotive, medical, electrical or mechanical components.
F Series
Makino Inc. announces the new F-Series vertical machining center designed to provide stiffness and rigidity for chatter-free cutting, agility for high-speed and hard milling and accuracies for tight tolerance blends and matches typical of complex, 3-D contoured geometry associated with die/mold and medical production.
FixtureWorks
As part of its ongoing drive to provide customers—OEMs, shop owners, manufacturing engineers, tooling specialists, setup technicians, fixture, workholding and jig designers—with the innovative tools and technologies needed to enhance quality and productivity throughput, Fixtureworkscontinues to expand its product offering to encompass an ever growing list of stainless steel fixturing, workholding and operating elements.
Dual-Chamber Atmosphere Muffle Ovens
Lucifer Furnaces Inc. shipped two dual-chamber atmosphere muffle ovens to a customer for the purpose of heat treating superconducting wire used in medical, pharmaceutical and industrial applications.
A time to get personal
Manager's Desk column by Keith Jennings.
Precision prescriptions
Ensuring optimal grinding of stainless steel medical instruments.
Easy to be hard
Milling plastics is just easy enough to be difficult.
Back from the brink
The metalworking industry sustained a body blow in 2009, but it's getting back on its feet as 2010 nears.
Where taps fear to thread
A growing number of shops are shelving their taps and opting to thread mill heat-treated steel.
Electrifying prototypes
Ability to machine intricate geometries and hard materials drives growing use of wire EDM prototyping.