Grinding (Surface, Cylindrical, Tool & Cutter)

One of the Look Ahead features in this month's Cutting Tool Engineering magazine covers a new CBN superabrasive for grinding wheels that extends wheel life and lowers grinding forces.

Find out more about a cryogenic lubrication technology based on supercritical CO2 in this month's Look Ahead feature.

Determining actual wheel costs and answers to other grinding questions can be found in this month's Grinding Doc column.

Courtesy of Lockheed MartinThe Lockheed Martin Hercules transport, one of many aircraft to use actuator systems manufactured by Triumph Activation Systems.Making the systems that keep 'big birds' flying straight.Boeing's 787 Dreamliner generated positive news in October when its first commercial flight, by All Nippon Airlines, landed in Hong Kong.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) has developed technology enabling high-speed and high-precision machining of a diverse range of precision gears, which are used in vehicle transmission systems and other applications, by a single machine, thereby permitting the complete grinding process, through to finishing, to be achieved at low cost.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, responds to a shop that performs high-production grinding of small parts and experiences trouble when determining how much to dress a wheel. Watch the 24th episode now.

Scotchman Metal Fabricating Solutions introduces the Scotchman AL100U-02 Pipe Notcher/Grinder.

Rockford Systems Inc. has introduced a new line of electrically interlocked heavy-duty grinder and tool grinder shields.

New grinding software makes tool design easier.

Technology, experience and attitude breeds grinding success—on a very small scale.

A 420 stainless steel part is ground on a Monza 410 centerless grinder at M&S Centerless Grinding.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, fields a question from a shop taking smaller and smaller finishing passes and several spark-out passes in order to get tight tolerances and a good surface finish. But the shop is having trouble getting the wheel to bite into the workpiece.