Time-Saving Tools
Parts manufacturers can choose from various multifunction tools to reduce cycle times and free up tool positions in their machines.
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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.
Military Strategies: General Industry Coverage
Small shops can take advantage of big opportunities by making military parts.
Rightsizing Machine Tools
Experts weigh in on how to buy smart—for today and tomorrow.
Cutting Down on Cutting Fluids?
While using a single cutting fluid to machine and grind all workpiece materials may not be economically feasible, many machine shops can reduce their number of metalworking fluids.
Automation Made Easy
A multitasking lathe, coupled with robotic loading or bar loading, is a simple but effective form of automation.
