Grinding’s Blackest Art
Centerless grinding is often viewed as overly complex, but a look at the process' fundamentals reveals otherwise.
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Turn Right: Turning Performance
Thread turning is a well-known but not well-understood practice. Toolmakers recommend how to do it the right way.
Evolution of a Tool’s Revolution
Putting a spin on turning tools results in up to a 2,000 percent increase in tool life and opens the door to new turning techniques.
Manufacturing Roundtable: Industry Trends & Analysis
Six manufacturing executives discuss the economics of metalworking in the U.S., competition in the global marketplace and recruiting and training workers.
Time-Saving Tools
Parts manufacturers can choose from various multifunction tools to reduce cycle times and free up tool positions in their machines.
IMTS ‘Exceeds Expectations’: Trade Shows & Events
International Manufacturing Technology Show draws more than 1,800 exhibitors and 92,000 attendees.
Sim Takes Flight: Design & Engineering
The use of simulation software allows GE Aviation to try out creative approaches to machining—without the risk of costly failures.
Uncommon Knowledge: General Industry Coverage
A joint Sandvik Coromant and Mazak seminar provided counterintuitive information on the metalworking market in general and machining heat-resistant superalloys in particular.
Cutting Round in Circles: General Industry Coverage
A demonstration application shows that trochoidal milling can cut narrow, wavy slots in hardened steel at up to 12 times the normal rates.
Mobile Metrology
Portable coordinate measuring machines provide unprecedented flexibility, plus cost savings.
Dress for Success: General Industry Coverage
There are several ways EDM builders and machine shops can make micro-electrodes for sinker EDMs. One popular way is discharge dressing.
Coating’s Holy Grail
Commercialization of cubic boron nitride coatings has proven elusive, but a two-step process for coating cutting tools with CBN is expected to come to market soon.
