Drilling & Boring

Articles • January 20, 2025

How innovative tooling enhances cost-effectiveness

Economics of Drilling Sidebar: the SUMOCHAM line of drills are designed to enhance productivity, precision and cost-efficiency.

News • November 19, 2024

Flex Machine Tools to hold open house

Flex Machine Tools, an American manufacturer and provider of machine tool solutions worldwide for metal fabrication operations, will host an Open House Event at Flex headquarters in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m.

Videos • November 8, 2024

Tungaloy-NTK IMTS 2024 Booth Visit

Tungaloy-NTK Chief Technical Officer Kedar Bhagath shares insights on the company's advancements in turning technology, including its AddMultiTurn six-corner inserts for front turning, back turning, profiling and face turning. He next highlights the company's new grooving product, the AddForceCut, which features a self-clamping design. Bhagath also discussed the company's miniature cutting technology, ceramics innovations, drilling solutions like its DrillMeister product, and advancements in the company's milling technology, with a focus on high-feed solutions and unique clamping mechanisms.

Articles • October 24, 2024 • Alan Richter

Best of Both Worlds

Combining additive manufacturing and subtractive machining in one machine can save significant time and money — when the application is appropriate.

News • September 19, 2024

Redex USA showcased advanced machine tool drives at IMTS

Redex USA showcased its portfolio of high-performance drives for machine tool applications at IMTS.

News • September 5, 2024

Mollart Machinery moving production and support to U.S.

Mollart Machinery's production operations and field service support, previously based in Chessington, United Kingdom, will be based out of Bourn & Koch's facility in Rockford, Illinois.

Products • September 3, 2024

ROBODRILL α-D28LiB5ADV Plus Y500

The enhanced performance of the new ROBODRILL α-D28LiB5ADV Plus Y500 is designed to help machine shops drive down cycle times with faster speeds and improved productivity. Additionally, with easy robotic integration tools with FANUC robots, automating machine tending is a breeze with FANUC ROBODRILL Plus.

Articles • July 11, 2024 • Christopher Tate

A deep coolant primer

High-pressure coolant plays a critical role in deep-hole drilling, deep-pocket milling.

News • March 27, 2024

UNISIG integrates parts inventory management system

Unisig, a global manufacturer of deep-hole drilling machines, has commissioned two SSI Schafer Logimat vertical lift modules (VLM) into its parts warehouse that is integrated with Unisig's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Articles • March 21, 2024 • EMUGE-FRANKEN USA

Boost threading efficiency

Utilize the knowledge of application specialists to increase thread quality, productivity and profitablity.

News • March 14, 2024

Big Daishowa Tools for Schools program awards more than $20,000 in tooling certificates

Big Daishowa's Tools for Schools program provided $23,300 in tooling certificates for local high schools, vocational schools and colleges.

News • March 4, 2024

MachiningDoctor.com calculates success

Professional machinists searching for technical assistance on the internet would do well to check out Machiningdoctor.com, a website launched in November 2020 by a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years in the industry. Erez Speiser, who spent much of his machining career working at Iscar headquarters in northern Israel, said he developed the Machiningdoctor.com website out of boredom during the COVID-19 pandemic.