Machining

CNC machines loaded with indexable tools are the foundation of modern machining.

Of all machining processes, wire EDMing is perhaps best suited for lights-out manufacturing with one exception, slugs.

Columnist Michael Deren compares company benefits. How does yours stack up?

Try these tips from machinist and moldmaker James Harvey in your shop.

B-Safe from Balance Systems detects collisions during machining, preventing damage to parts and machine.

Tool blanks are printed to make cutters to machine titanium.

Effectively machining titanium alloys requires suitable cutting tools, machine tools and monitoring systems.

With the new Taglens-T1 varifocal lens, manufacturers can achieve high-throughput noncontact parts inspection.

Multiple-axis machines increase workpiece accessibility but some jobs still require these specialized toolholders.

Known for smooth cutting operations at high feed rates that reduce machining time, the Carmex Precision Tools Mini Spiral Mill-Thread line is now available in inch sizes, as well as metric. The spiral fluted toolholders, with internal coolant bore, hold from one to three inserts and are available in comparably small cutting diameters.

CNC machining centers from Chiron combine consistently high production quality, flexibility, low unit costs and short lead times for an optimal process. The addition of the Chiron Variocell Pallet automation cell enables the new high-efficiency FZ/DZ 16 series vertical machining center to produce small batches of a variety of workpieces in an even more productive and flexible way.

Hoffmann Group USA has expanded its tool family for Parabolic Performance Cutting (PPC) to include a new PPC indexable insert and Garant PPC solid-carbide barrel milling cutters for high-alloy and hardened steels. The PPC process represents a further development of ball-nosed slot drill cutting and is also known as barrel milling.