Medical & Healthcare

Products • November 13, 2013

HYDROK Hydraulic Clamping System

Seeger had become aware of the HYDROK hydraulic clamping system offered by the Marbach-based company, HAINBUCH, through an ad in a trade journal.

Products • October 13, 2013

YBM 640V3 Jig Boring/Milling Machine

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has announced the introduction of the new Yasda YBM 640V3 3-Axis CNC vertical jig borer, which provides high-speed, precision boring and milling operations for high accuracy mold, die and complex component manufacturing.

Products • October 13, 2013

Model 2850MT Tool and Cutter Grinder

Unison Corp. announces the introduction of its new 7-axis Model 2850MT CNC microtool grinder.

Products • October 13, 2013

Miniature Pillow Block Ball Bearings

Stock Drive Products offers miniature pillow block ball bearings from Spyraflo.

Products • October 13, 2013

EcoCCore Part Cleaning System

With its EcoCCore system now superseding the previous 81C/P equipment series, Durr Ecoclean says it is setting new standards in solvent-based part cleaning.

Articles • October 1, 2013 • Tom Lipton

Go fly away: a summer story

During the summer, writes the Shop Operations columnist in the October 2013 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering, it gets pretty hot in a shop that's not air conditioned. With sweat running down my semibald head, I was trying to get a part set up in a CNC lathe. This particular part was giving me some trouble because of a tool compensation problem. I was hot and frustrated.

Articles • October 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

Playing it smart

Cutting cycle time for a 3,000-piece run. Two wire EDMs.

Articles • October 1, 2013 • Keith Jennings

Shifting gears to manage crises

I'm a big a supporter of my local community college's machining programs. There's one facet of machine shop management a classroom can't prepare a student for, though: the constant, yet unexpected, gear shifting that goes on when you're running a shop.

Articles • October 1, 2013 • Frank Burke

Vibration de-escalation

New and traditional part grinding technologies combine to control vibration and improve precision.

Articles • October 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

A shop grows in Brooklyn

Tucked into the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Linda Tool, a family-owned machine shop, is adding to its capabilities.

Articles • October 1, 2013 • Susan Woods

Multiple options

Multisensor measurement can make part inspection for machine shops more efficient.

Products • September 13, 2013

StarCut Tube Processing Center

Manufacturing a wide range of miniature thin-walled tube products requires the highest precision from the cutting and drilling processes used to produce them. The delicate tube material has to be machined without inducing distortion or leaving burrs, and this is where laser systems such as ROFIN's StarCut Tube offer significant advantages when compared to chemical and mechanical machining procedures, according to the company.