Machining

A new high-feed milling cutter extends the benefits of ISCAR's HELITANG UPFEED tangential milling cutters to ramping work as well.

END USER: Sonic Industries Div., Sargent Aerospace & Defense Group, (310) 532-8382, www.sargentaerospace.com. CHALLENGE: Reduce cycle times while holding critical dimensional and finish tolerances. SOLUTION: Automated honing machine with superabrasive tools.

END USER: HITCO Carbon Composites Inc., (800) 421-5444, www.hitco.com. CHALLENGE: Increase productivity when machining composite parts. SOLUTION: A 5-axis machine tool optimized for the process.

Grinding Doc column from the February 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine explains the 10 percent grinding rule and offers other grinding advice.

Manager's Desk column from the February 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine takes a look at various considerations when examining equipment acquisitions.

Strategies for grinding HVOF-coated aerospace parts.

CAM and simulation software packages enable productive programming of multitasking machines—particularly as they become 'ultratasking' machines.

Turning a lathe vertical can be a productivity turn for the better—for large and small parts.

When it comes to milling aerospace parts made from Ti5553, difficulty is in the eye of the beholder.

ATI Stellram and Sandvik Coromant offer demonstrations of their milling cutters as part of this aerospace report.

A complement to our Part Time column, this brief video offers an overview of Tungsten Pride's ring production capabilities.

Faced with two machines exactly the same, except that one has a newer spindle, a grinding shop wants to know if there's a way to determine if the newer spindle is stiffer than the older one on the other machine. Dr.