General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Increase threading productivity while reducing scrap. High-performance, through-coolant thread formers.

Streamline the digital parts library used to produce workholders. Strategic parts management software.

Welcome to the start of another year, where machine shops will be pushed to adhere to even stricter standards as customers deal with consolidation, relocation, certification, lean-system implementation and other versions of doing more with less.

Do you process existing jobs the same way every time? If not, you may be throwing money away every time those jobs are run by having to reinvent the process over and over. If a few weeks or months go by in between runs of the same part, you may forget some nuance, whether it's a specific cutter, a dedicated fixture or a unique method for locating the part.

Capacitance sensors are noncontact sensors used in machine tools to measure the distance between a noncontact probe and a target sensor. Because the probe does not physically touch the target, capacitance sensors are beneficial in instances where the target surface is moving, such as a rotating spindle, or delicate, such as a silicon wafer.

An off-the-shelf robotic gripper that conforms to a variety of parts shapes without reprogramming.

Deep holes can be difficult to define, but knowing the right tool for the job makes them easier to drill.

Imagine building a ship in a bottle, but instead of using a preexisting bottle, you build the ship along with the bottle while machining the ship's and bottle's surfaces as you go.

For one shop, increasing wheel speed when cup-wheel grinding usually reduces wheel wear, but sometimes it increases wear. The shop sought the advice of Dr. Jeffrey Badger in the 56th episode of our Grinding Doc Video Series. About the Grinding Doc Video Series: Thanks to his work as an independent grinding consultant and the author of the "Ask the Grinding Doc" column in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, Dr. Jeffrey Badger routinely receives questions about grinding from shops all over the world. Through the magazine column and this video series, he provides shops with the insight and guidance they seek.

The swift evolution of Edgecam Workflow from Vero is highlighted with over 50 new and enhanced aspects of functionality in the latest release.

Precise machining with high-quality surface finishing: Rexroth helps machine tool operators meet today's exacting requirements with its new generation of RSHP Roller Rail Systems.