Milling

Nexus Cutting Tools, a new product line from Techniks, introduces its new line of Lamina cutting inserts.

The new KenFeed 2X milling solution from Kennametal is the latest development in high-feed for light to heavy end milling operations.

Nexus Cutting Tools, a new product line from Techniks Inc., introduces its patented ShrinkMILL facemill system.

Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc. introduces a new general purpose face mill that reportedly provides substantial cost savings to consumers.

Edgecam 2013 R1 from Vero Software provides an intuitive environment for the comprehensive programming of all wire EDM machine tools.

Emuge Corp. has introduced Top Cut, a new series of high performance carbide end mills.

Royal Products' new Filtermist Ultra is a portable solution for oil mist and smoke that combines Filtermist with cyclonic technology to remove additional pollutants.

END USER: K-Fab Inc., (408) 727-5311, www.k-fabinc.com. CHALLENGE: Increase spindle utilization for a vertical machining center while reducing labor requirements. SOLUTION: A nonrobotic automation system for VMCs. SOLUTION PROVIDER: Simons Design Innovation, (408) 398-3296, www.simonsdesigninnovation.com

This Look Ahead item features a CNC gear honing machine that uses a honing wheel with external teeth and reduces the number of process stages.

Shop Operations columnist Tom Lipton offers some suggestions for improving the design of manual milling machines in the October 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

In his October 2012 Machine Technology column, Dr. Scott Smith, professor at the William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, outlines the reasons stable milling zones appear the way they do.

Machining modeling solutions provider Third Wave Systems offers version 6.0 of its finite element analysis product, Third Wave AdvantEdge.