Machining

Videos • April 29, 2019

Episode 94: Dressing driving you mad?

In part one of this report, the Grinding Doc acknowledges how maddening dressing can be when diamonds wear away and develop larger and larger flat areas.

Videos • April 29, 2019

Studer S31 & S33 unveiling in the Alps

The marketing folks at Fritz Studer AG, Thun, Switzerland, understand the importance of having a distinctive, eye-catching location for introducing grinding machines. In March, they selected the Hagerbach Test Gallery in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland to host the Studer Press Event 2019.

Videos • April 29, 2019

Indexable Small-diameter High Feed Milling Cutters

The new cutter ensures high productivity and economy

Products • April 26, 2019

3M Precision Structured Vitrified CBN Grinding Wheel 1PVP

ST. PAUL' Minn. – (April 26, 2019) – Specifically designed abrasive tools require tight wheels, geometry, and tolerance for mass production.

Articles • April 25, 2019 • Jeffrey A. Badger, Ph.D.

Hot diamonds and barber pole

The Grinding Doc addresses the cause of barber pole lines in workpieces.

Videos • April 24, 2019

Rigibore’s Zenith, Two-Cut Automated Boring Solution

The Zenith two-cut finish solution ensures precision performance, automatically backing off the cutting edge to machine a pre-finish boring hole that it then measures and records the value in the machine control, which uses the value to compensate for the finish bore.

Articles • April 23, 2019 • Ivan Mikesic

Simulating on-machine probing

CAMplete TruePath suite adds software to aid on-machining probing automation.

Articles • April 18, 2019 • Alan Richter

Machining large parts takes specialized mindset

Shops make big moves becoming specialists when manufacturing hefty parts.

Products • April 18, 2019

NCSIMUL CAM Simulation Software

The latest CAM simulation software release from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence includes new and enhanced functionality giving users the ability to execute tasks for existing projects on a remote server. Based on client/server scheduler architecture, the new version of NCSIMUL's machining module includes new automation functionality that gives the user wider control of their jobs on other devices by communicating with distant servers.

Products • April 17, 2019

Dictator II MILLHOG Pipe Beveler

A new pipe beveling tool with an operating range from 4.5" ID to 24" OD that requires only one mandrel and 10 clamps for the entire range of the tool has been introduced by Esco Tool. The Dictator II MILLHOG Pipe Beveler uses one mandrel and a set of three wide clamps that provide six points of contact on the pipe ID, resulting in rigid mounting and chatter-free beveling for a given pipe size range.

Products • April 17, 2019

Machine Learning System Integrates Into TwinCAT 3 Software

Beckhoff Automation has announced a new machine learning (ML) solution that is seamlessly integrated into TwinCAT 3 software. Building on established standards, TwinCAT 3 Machine Learning offers ML applications the same advantages of system openness familiar from PC-based control technology.

Products • April 17, 2019

Coated T-CBN Inserts

Tungaloy adds a substantial number of new geometries and shapes to its BXA20 line, a successful grade of coated T-CBN inserts, designed to deliver efficient solutions to hard turning operations.