General Shop Equipment & Supplies

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

Carbide drill with unique design reportedly minimizes walking while extending tool life.

Case histories and comments about hard milling in die and mold shops.

Keys to maximizing productivity when facemilling steel.

Production of precise, tough oil-field components demands the use of sophisticated multitask machines.

The practice of turning threads on a lathe is well known but oftennot well-understood. Toolmakers offer their recommendations on how todo it the right way. By Bill Kennedy There are nearly as many ways to produce threads as there are types of parts that require them. Threads can be cut with a die, rolled, ground, tapped or milled, using lathes, machining centers or specialized machines. In the video, Frank Battaglia, staff engineer for Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, Pa., provides a couple of pointers regarding the use of shims with laydown threading inserts to achieve optimal results.

Data Flute CNC's Cliff Flynn, director of research and new product development, gets rough with the company's AFDH finishing tool in this 5-minute report. Flynn noted that the demonstration provided at IMTS 2008 was purposely aggressive on the finishing tool to underscore its finishing ability.

Cutting Tool Engineering Editor Alan Richter sat down with Carlos Cardoso, the chairman, president and CEO of Kennametal Inc., at the recent IMTS 2008 show in Chicago. The 7-minute report addresses Kennametal's goals for diversification and expansion globally, and how that has impacted the company's worldwide sales. Cardoso also notes tht Kennametal will continue co-development tools with others because that's what's best for customers.

Thread turning is a well-known but not well-understood practice. Toolmakers recommend how to do it the right way.

Six manufacturing executives discuss the economics of metalworking in the U.S., competition in the global marketplace and recruiting and training workers.

International Manufacturing Technology Show draws more than 1,800 exhibitors and 92,000 attendees.

Centerless grinding is often viewed as overly complex, but a look at the process' fundamentals reveals otherwise.