September 2022
Articles in this issue
Ceramic surprises
Shops may be unaware of these ceramic cutter applications and developments.
A stronger ‘sandwich’
Southern Illinois University researcher has a $200,000 grant to improve the ultrastrong sandwich materials hidden in car panels and airplane wings
Up-grinding vs. down-grinding
The Grinding Doc analyzes a case where choosing up or down makes a big difference.
Multifunctional milling cutter
Tungaloy helps shop reduce cycle time and number of cutting tools needed for complex part build.
Retain talent with training
Training is expensive, but so is not training
A little math equals a lot of safety
Machine economically and safely by estimating the forces involved with aggressive metal removal.
Robot to the rescue
Automation is available to eliminate dull, dirty and dangerous tasks for workers at any size facility.
High-speed holemaking
Tooling advances quicken the pace.
New cobot loads up
The UR20 cobot from Universal Robots A/S handles double the payload of the current model