General Shop Equipment & Supplies

FACTIVITY has released an enhanced, user friendly interface for its manufacturing software that will help factory operators working on multiple jobs, or with multiple parts, at the same time. The new Multi-POD facility is an improvement on the standard electronic "paperless" operator interface used in the FACTIVITY floor screens.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering's Grinding Doc Video Series, fields a question from a shop hoping to find a faster way to find the sweet spot when cylindrical-plunge grinding tugsten-carbide shafts. 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, Badger routinely receives questions about grinding from shops all over the world.

Hydraulic vises ofer accurate workholding for workpieces large and small.

Tips and tricks for performing layout work.

Produce flight-critical hydraulic pumps more rapidly and precisely. A multifeed honing system.

Speed throughput when deburring and surface finishing vise components. Abrasive disc brushes applied via a machining center's automatic toolchanger.

Tap 100 2"-8 blind-holes without breaking the tap or scrapping a part. A tap engineered to effectively produce threads in holes more than ½" in diameter.

The dynamics at play when a machine shop is a family affair.

Keep on the lookout for additional training opportunities.

The importance of using dry compressed air.

An advanced athermal laser machining process for producing Nitinol-based implants and other medical devices.