Prototyping & Design

Articles • March 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

Metal on metal

A pump on a waterjet machine generates the high-pressure water needed for cutting by taking low-pressure water into a cylinder, compressing the water with a plunger and then pushing the high-pressure water out of the cylinder. During a pressure cycle of intake, compression and expulsion, high-pressure components and polymer seals see the water pressure jump from two-digit inlet pressures to outlet pressures in the tens of thousands of psi.

Articles • September 1, 2012

Calling George Jetson!

Alan Rooks, Cutting Tool Engineering's editorial director, looks forward to the day he can sit in a traffic jam alongside George Jetson in his September editorial.

Articles • March 1, 2012 • Alan Richter

Soft machine

Robust and stiff often come to mind when considering the characteristics that make for a productive milling machine. However, Juanjo Zulaika, a researcher at the applied-research center Tecnalia Research & Innovation, thought otherwise and developed a "softer" milling machine with reduced weight and stiffness. That's achieved while increasing productivity.

Articles • January 1, 2012 • Keith Jennings

Effectively screening new projects

Manager's Desk columnist Keith Jennings offers some guidance for effectively screening new projects in the January 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.

Articles • June 1, 2011 • Alan Richter

Look Ahead: Fibrous alloys

Composite toolholders and boring bars.

Articles • January 1, 2010

Simulating tool functionality

Get With The Program column from January 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Articles • May 1, 2008 • Alan Richter

From Design to Part

It's not just for prototyping; additive, or rapid, manufacturing can be a cost-effective way of producing parts, especially when used for mass customization of parts and for low-volume runs of smaller, complex, net- and near net-shape parts.

Articles • February 1, 2004 • Greg Landgraf

Layer by Layer

With the development of new, less expensive systems, rapid prototyping makes its moves to the masses