Machining

Creating awareness about productivity boosting machining technologies and implementing them are playing a major role in making military parts.

Machinist's Corner column in October 2009 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Get With The Program column in October 2009 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Part Time column in October 2009 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Productive Times report covering dedicated wheel truing, includes a brief video report about Myles Tool using the Rush Machinery Wheel Truer.

As part of its occasional product focus video series, Cutting Tool Engineering Plus presents a closer look at the GrindSmart Nano6 from Rollomatic SA.

Part of CTE's October cover story, this video sidebar follows tool grinder Jim Clark as he employs the ANCA CNC toolgrinding machine at Hamill Manufacturing to create custom geometry onan endmill for a military application.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, fields a question from a shop that hasn't had any luck with ceramic abrasive. Watch the 2nd episode of the video series now.

What does CAM software have to do with mowing your lawn? More than you might think. Consider this imaginary story in which a machine shop owner tackles that bane of suburban life.

There's more than one way to machine a part. The trick is to match the part's complexity and volume requirements with an optimal production process.

An array of milling tools is available, including endmills, facemills and plain mills. Typical milling applications include facing, filleting or edge cutting, profiling, slotting, pocketing and blind slotting.

In recent years, monolithic machined aluminum components have been replacing sheet metal assemblies throughout the aerospace industry. The monolithic structures are lighter, less expensive and stronger than their conventional sheet metal counterparts. Machining the components requires fewer special tools, fewer hand operations and less assembly time.