Medical & Healthcare

Shop Operations column for March 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

END USER: BH Tool, (801) 908-0707, www.bh-tool.com. CHALLENGE: Ensure gaging accuracy. SOLUTION: An edge-finding gage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Manager's Desk column by Keith Jennings.

Ensuring optimal grinding of stainless steel medical instruments.

Milling plastics is just easy enough to be difficult.

The metalworking industry sustained a body blow in 2009, but it's getting back on its feet as 2010 nears.

A growing number of shops are shelving their taps and opting to thread mill heat-treated steel.

Ability to machine intricate geometries and hard materials drives growing use of wire EDM prototyping.