Emuge Corp., a leading manufacturer of high performance taps, thread mills, drills, endmills and other rotary tools, and precision machine tools supplier Brooks Associates Inc. have announced a collaborative effort that expands their respective capabilities for customer training, machining demonstrations and applications testing.
Beginning with the placement of two Hurco machines in Emuge's West Boylston, Massachusetts, Technology Center, Brooks Associates is increasing its market presence in central Massachusetts by opening a 2,500-sq.-ft. showroom at Emuge's newly expanded Manufacturing and Technology Center. In addition to the two existing Hurco vertical machining centers, Brooks Associates will showcase another Hurco VMC, as well as a Hurco turning center, a Takumi die/ mold center, an LK Machinery VMC and LK Machinery drill/tap center, and a Yama Seiki turning center and Yama Seiki VMC.
Michael Klier, president of Brooks Associates, said, "Our relationship with Emuge will enable us to better serve our customers from a central location in New England in a modern facility. We look forward to a long, mutually beneficial affiliation, where we can work together to leverage knowledge and capabilities to improve our product offerings and break into new markets."
"This is a win-win relationship," said Bob Hellinger, president of Emuge. "We are very pleased to work with Brooks Associates and have their precision machining equipment in our recently expanded, state-of-the-art Technology Center for training, machining, cutting tool demonstrations and application tests. We are able to conduct a wide range of real-world tests and demonstrations due to the distinct capabilities offered by each machine tool."
Related Glossary Terms
- centers
centers
Cone-shaped pins that support a workpiece by one or two ends during machining. The centers fit into holes drilled in the workpiece ends. Centers that turn with the workpiece are called “live” centers; those that do not are called “dead” centers.
- precision machining ( precision measurement)
precision machining ( precision measurement)
Machining and measuring to exacting standards. Four basic considerations are: dimensions, or geometrical characteristics such as lengths, angles and diameters of which the sizes are numerically specified; limits, or the maximum and minimum sizes permissible for a specified dimension; tolerances, or the total permissible variations in size; and allowances, or the prescribed differences in dimensions between mating parts.
- turning
turning
Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery or across its end or face. Takes the form of straight turning (cutting along the periphery of the workpiece); taper turning (creating a taper); step turning (turning different-size diameters on the same work); chamfering (beveling an edge or shoulder); facing (cutting on an end); turning threads (usually external but can be internal); roughing (high-volume metal removal); and finishing (final light cuts). Performed on lathes, turning centers, chucking machines, automatic screw machines and similar machines.
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