Medical & Healthcare

Products • August 1, 2014

InSol Lubrication

CIMCOOL Fluid Technology offers InSol lubrication. This new technology coupled with unique surfactants and inhibitors provides excellent multi-metal performance without the use of extreme pressure additives, according to the company.

Products • August 1, 2014

Medtech Design and Testing Services

Medical device contract manufacturer Norman Noble Inc. announced it has begun providing additional design and testing services to its medtech customers.

Products • August 1, 2014

TF450 Laser Marking Machine

Technifor, a division of the Gravotech Group, introduces its laser marking machine, the TF450.

Products • August 1, 2014

SkyScan-2211 Multiscale Nano-CT

Micro Photonics Inc. announced the release of the SkyScan-2211 Multi-Scale Nano-CT.

Articles • July 1, 2014 • Kip Hanson

Sharp attack: How needles and other medical sharps are ground

Spend enough time working in a machine shop and you're bound to pay a visit to the emergency room for a cut finger. First comes the sting as the ER physician injects you with a local anesthetic, then the tug of the thread as she drags the suturing needle, a type of surgical needle, through your skin. This traumatic experience is painful enough, but without the sharp edge imparted to those needles through special machines known as needle-point grinders, those sutures would feel as if the doc were using a darning needle from grandma's sewing kit.

Articles • July 1, 2014 • Tom Lipton

Tips for effective finish work

Shop Operations columnist Tom Lipton shares his tips for performing effective finish work in the July 2014 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Articles • July 1, 2014 • Kip Hanson

Balanced equations: Toolholder vibration makes for miserable machining, but balancing can help

Unbalanced tool holders create excessive heat in the spindle bearings, which, along with the vibration, can cause premature spindle failure.

Articles • July 1, 2014 • Evan Jones Thorne

Potent portables: Portable CMM arms bring sophisticated inspection to the shop floor

The basis of the portable CMM arm is to allow an operator to reach and touch the part to be measured with a hard probe and collect data.

Articles • July 1, 2014 • Dr. LaRoux K. Gillespie

Top finishers: Solutions for 10 of the most challenging deburring applications

Part complexity combined with difficult material properties make deburring a challenge for many part manufacturers.

Articles • July 1, 2014 • Alan Richter

Bremen Castings celebrates its 75th anniversary, but doesn’t look back

What do baseball legend Ted Williams slugging his first big-league dinger, Batman comics hitting the streets and Germany attacking Poland to launch World War II have in common? They all occurred in 1939, the same year Ellis Brown, Charles W. Kling and Harold Heckamen founded Bremen (Ind.) Gray Iron Foundry Inc.

Products • July 1, 2014

Multi Mini Rhinobar Bar Feeder

Lexair Inc.'s new Multi Mini Rhinobar bar feeder makes multi-diameter bar stock processing faster and easier with a feed-tube cartridge that automatically centers and feeds three sizes of small-diameter bar stock to Swiss-style CNC screw machines and sliding-head lathes.

Articles • June 1, 2014 • Evan Jones Thorne

Automating the impossible

Cutting Tool Engineering Senior Editor Evan Jones Thorne interviews Len Graham of Rexam Mold Manufacturing.