Machining

ANCA Inc. custom-designed and built a new industrial robot loader for exhibition and demonstration purposes and is currently not available for sale.

In the seventh episode of The CNC Chef, Bob Warfield of the CNCCookbook outlines steps that will help you tame chatter.

Buffalo Abrasives Inc. says the B5490 is an epoxy bond that is durable and easy to use, designed to run cool, generating less heat, thus less chance of burning. The bond eliminates chatter by providing a softer, more-forgiving grinding action.

Micro Technology Inc., Tullahoma, Tenn., makes parts that are used to mount to automotive engine blocks to be robotically transported through assembly lines. The company uses HAAS VF-3 with CAT40 taper tools. One part is 6061 Aluminum with a tolerance requirement of +/- 0.002" and was being machined with a face mill at 3,000RPM 120IPM with 1.25" axial and 1.2" radial depth of cut.

Seco Tools looks at passive and dynamic vibration control in a recent technical article on the company's web site. In metalcutting, vibration is generated by the changing forces that occur when making chips. The intermittent forces are apparent in the interrupted cutting process of milling and also appear in turning operations when the toolholder bar is periodically loaded and unloaded as chips form and break.

ITAMCO (Indiana Technology and Manufacturing Companies) is delivering components to the medical device industry made with their new EOS M 290 additive manufacturing printer. The EOS printer was delivered in June 2017 and ITAMCO was shipping components to a medical device supplier in August.

The 16-inch x 60-inch engine lathe from Palmgren has the power to deal with heavy metal removal. It has the accuracy and control to handle precision fine tolerance turning.

Cutting threads is an important element of machining. Even if you aren't into making your own, custom-sized threads, it still helps to know how to create them. We've seen customers get pretty creative with their machines and cutting methods, but with a Tormach mill, there are three main ways to cut threads.

A milestone for the digital transformation: thyssenkrupp connects the machinery of the materials division via a new digital platform. Thanks to toii Industrial Internet of Things platform, all machines can communicate with each other. Due to predictive maintenance, the platform is also supposed to forecast the necessity of machine services in the future.

Doosan Machine Tools America introduces the PUMA TW 2600/M-GL to its lineup of high-productivity turning centers. The PUMA TW 2600/M-GL is a high-performance, 10-inch class, two-spindle turning center with an integrated gantry loader.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 516.5 metric size, stainless steel compression latches. The RoHS-compliant compression latches have a closing mechanism that transfers the rotary movement of the operating element (key) into a 90° turn and then into a 6 mm linear stroke.

On Robot launched a flexible and energy-efficient gripper for cobots tasked with handling objects of various sizes. Easy to install on the arm of a cobot and simple to program, the RG6 is a bigger and stronger version of the company's popular RG2, with reportedly higher payload than other two-finger collaborative grippers available on the market.