Machining

Products • March 1, 2010

F Series

Makino Inc. announces the new F-Series vertical machining center designed to provide stiffness and rigidity for chatter-free cutting, agility for high-speed and hard milling and accuracies for tight tolerance blends and matches typical of complex, 3-D contoured geometry associated with die/mold and medical production.

Articles • February 1, 2010

Nonthreaded fasteners

Shop Operations column by Frank Marlow.

Articles • February 1, 2010 • Jeffrey A. Badger, Ph.D.

Cutting cycle time

Ask the Grinding Doc column by Dr. Jeffrey Badger.

Articles • February 1, 2010 • Keith Jennings

A time to get personal

Manager's Desk column by Keith Jennings.

Articles • February 1, 2010

Precision prescriptions

Ensuring optimal grinding of stainless steel medical instruments.

Articles • February 1, 2010

Selecting coolant scientifically

Using an independent laboratory to test different coolants can provide the impartial data needed to make the right choice for machining titanium.

Articles • February 1, 2010 • Alan Richter

As the robots turn

Integrated automation of turning centers can be the solution to meeting production schedules and profit goals.

Articles • February 1, 2010

Here comes the sun

Machining components for solar power generation systems can be a renewable source of business.

Videos • January 15, 2010

Multitasking video

A Studer brand S242 machine, which combines hard milling and grinding, is shown hard milling a toolholder without coolant, then grinding the holder's taper with coolant to achieve the required surface finish.

Videos • January 15, 2010

‘One Hit’ deep-hole drill

Precision Dormer filmed its R571 CDX-DH "One-hit" Deep-Hole Drillmaking holes 102mm deep at a speed of 157mm/min. and feed rate of0.14mm/rev.

Videos • January 15, 2010

Small diameter, deep-hole drilling

Iscar designed drills for small-diameter, deep holes in automotive crankshafts, camshafts, connecting rods and more—all with minimum quantity lubrication.

Videos • January 5, 2010

Cluster diamonds

Thinking about using cluster diamonds? Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, suggests going at least 4x faster than with a single-point diamond in the 5th episode of the video series.