Machining

News • March 9, 2015

Titan offers deburring, microfinishing tools

Titan Tool Supply, Buffalo, N.Y., offers a range of deburring and microfinishing tools, including grinding and bottoming pins, grinding wheels, polishing products, miniature diamond files, Swiss needle files, diamond needle files, scrapers and blades and Uni-Vise blade and file handles.

News • March 9, 2015

Absolute Machine Tools offers EDM consumables

Absolute Machine Tools, Lorain, Ohio, now offers a full line of EDM consumable products and services through its AccuteX EDM business unit, based in Mason, Ohio. AccuteX EDM now offers not only consumables for its line of EDMs, but also for most other OEMs, such as Mitsubishi, Sodick, FANUC and others.

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Michael Deren

Plan to replace retirees

What is your company doing to replace its retiring workforce?

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Dr. Scott Smith

Fixing linear positioning errors

In a typical machine-tool-axis positioning system, the workpiece is mounted on a table that slides along flat, straight guide ways. The table may be supported on the guide ways by rolling elements or by a thin film of oil or grease. A screw controls the table position along the guide way. The rotation of the screw in the nonrotating nut that is fixed to the table drives the table left or right. The rotation of the motor translates into linear table position through the pitch of the screw.

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Kip Hanson

Choosing wire EDM workholders

There comes a time when some chipmaking shops add wire EDMing to their repertoire. This is often done to reduce costs, because bringing what were once subcontracted, secondary EDMing operations in-house often makes good financial and logistical sense.

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Doug Fair

Creating visibility with the cloud

Most manufacturers have made great strides in optimizing operations. Many have even standardized multiple facilities with the same on-premise software to create consistency across the enterprise. However, no matter how many procedures are put in place, each plant has its own idiosyncrasies, making it nearly impossible for systems to communicate with each other.

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Keith Jennings

Protecting digital assets

Machine shops need lots of tangible assets to make parts: machine tools, cutting tools and real estate, among other items.

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Alan Richter

Wave control

New metamaterials that 'bend' acoustic and elastic waves.

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Tom Lipton

Lost art of flame straigthening

>Flame straightening is one of those old-timer skills everybody has heard of but few have had the opportunity to witness. The ability to straighten bent plates and shafts is almost magical in its simplicity. It's definitely a valuable skill if you intend to spend any time around a welding shop, unless you relish the thought of beating a stubborn shaft or plate into submission with a mallet

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Alan Richter

Milling heads don’t get the shaft

Overcome excessive tool wear and poor surface finishes when machining flats on a steel truck shaft. A milling tool that exerts all cutting forces downward and cuts freely.

Articles • March 1, 2015 • Alan Richter

Shop cleans up its act with MQL

Eliminate excess coolant to improve shop floor safety and cleanliness. Minimum quantity lubrication systems.

Products • March 1, 2015

Index-O-Cut high-performance milling system

Greenleaf Corp. says its Index-O-Cut high-performance milling system is suitable for machining all materials because of its high-shear cutting action and a 45° lead angle on the octagon-style insert.