Toolholding & Workholding

U.S. companies that adopt electromagnetic workholders heartily endorse the technology.

Cutting tool tests performed by vendors are an excellent resource, and I've used them many times.

Challenging Swiss-style machining jobs can require specialty collets or novel applications of standard workholding.

Exploring the ins and outs of specifying and ordering a flexible specialty machine tool and having a machine builder produce it.

With its patent expired, the Coromant Capto modular toolholding system is now governed by an ISO standard.

Holding large workpieces, especially heavy ones, requires parts manufacturers be more mindful of workholder and machine tool limits than they have to be with smaller workpieces. Also, shops may need to improvise when a conventional workholder can't secure a large workpiece.

High-speed, vibration-free endmilling of aluminum workpieces requires cutting tools with certain features and requires certain types of toolholders. Also, it can be aided by cutting strategies.

Gripping power, friction and hysteresis are important factors in selecting a 3-jaw chuck to maximize a CNC lathe's accuracy and horsepower.

Though ITI Tooling Co. Inc. introduced the Varia Rapid-Change Tooling System some four years ago, the company's product manager—Lee Hebenstreit—says word of this technology has not yet spread throughout the markets it could help. That's why the company produced a 22-second video showing the Varia tool changing system in action.

New tooling that makes quick tool changes quicker.

Advantages of various new workholding products.

Aspects of a job that determine which type of chuck is suitable.