Toolholding & Workholding

Videos • December 30, 2015

Allied Machine & Engineering featured on Fox Business News’ Manufacturing Marvels series

Manufacturing Marvels, which airs on The FOX Business Network, recently featured Allied Machine & Engineering Corp., Dover, Ohio. Manufacturing Marvels, which is produced by the Marvel Production Group LLC, Dallas, Texas, are 2-minute video reports spotlighting American manufacturers, their products, processes and customers.

Products • December 28, 2015

CompactGRIP self-centering vises

Italian workholding manufacturer Gerardi SPA offers its new line of self-centering CompactGRIP vises for 5-axis machining. The line offers higher clamping power than existing vises, because the clamping screw design is positioned very close to the workpiece and the integral design of slides and jaws, according to the company.

Articles • December 1, 2015

Go with the flow

Productive Times challenge: Ensure there are no machining issues with a flexible manufacturing system. The solution: Machine simulation and optimization software.

Articles • December 1, 2015 • Matthew Jaster

A clamping system to eliminate blade vibration on blisks

Turbine blades are typically mounted on compressor disks and milled from a single piece of material rather than constructed blade by blade. These are known as blade-integrated disks, or blisks, and their main function is to compress air in the turbine.

Articles • October 1, 2015

Shrink-fit chucks enhance precision

Productive Times Challenge: Find a suitable toolholder to handle precision machining. The Solution: Shrink-fit chucks.

Articles • October 1, 2015

Retention knob reduces polishing

Productive Times Challenge: Reduce post-machining polishing time. The Solution: Tooling toolholder assemblies with high-torque retention knobs.

Articles • October 1, 2015 • Matthew Jaster

Printing chucks

The October issue of Cutting Tool Engineering includes a Look Ahead item about an additively manufactured hydraulic chuck.

Articles • October 1, 2015 • Christopher Tate

Lean drives modularity

Cutting Tool Engineering's Shop Technology column in October addresses how lean manufacturing principles have changed the way engineers program machine tools and select tooling.

Articles • September 1, 2015 • Kip Hanson

Stick with it

Let's say you want to machine your initials on your favorite Hummel figurine or cut the likeness of the school mascot on your daughter's Little League helmet. How are you going to grip them? A conventional way to grip fragile, difficult-to-hold workpieces is to encapsulate them in some sort of potting compound, a time-consuming and wasteful process.

Products • September 1, 2015

GN 927.7 Clamping Levers

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 927.7 stainless steel clamping levers with eccentrical cam with stainless steel contact plate, tapped type, in inch and metric sizes.

Products • September 1, 2015

GN 71752 Fork Heads

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 71752 fork heads (yokes), plain fork type, steel or stainless steel, in inch sizes.

Products • September 1, 2015

VDI and BMT Block Static Toolholders

ITI Tooling Co. Inc.'s portfolio of more than 20,000 different toolholders includes VDI toolholders with shaft diameters of 16mm through 80mm and BMT block toolholders (BMT55 to BMT85) to machine-specific holders for machine tool builders such as KIA (WIA), Mazak, Doosan, DMG Mori, Nakamura, EMCO Maier, Hurco, YCM, Samsung, Hwacheon and Okuma.