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Precision Twist Drill (PTD)
To cover the breadth of applications within the MRO segment, there are drills for general purpose machine and portable drilling. These include the popular HSS R10 series for right hand drilling and HSS L10 series for left hand drilling. Also included are the carbide DC series of center drills.
March U.S. cutting tool orders up almost 1% from February
U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $189.8 million, according to the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI) and AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the Cutting Tool Market Report collaboration, was up 0.9 percent from February's $188.2 million and down 9.8 percent when compared with the $210.4 million reported for March 2019.
Manufacturers battle COVID-19
Cleveland - Members of the National Tooling and Machining Association and Precision Metalforming Association are stepping up to meet the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and leading the way in displaying the true American spirit of joining together to make a difference.
Fighting the coronavirus with 3D-printed door handles
A few weeks ago, Emag LLC started examining workplace safety regarding the pandemic and quickly came up with a long list of new safety measures to avoid spreading the virus. Over the past couple of weeks, our employees have been working hard to implement these measures, making us confident that all workplaces now are designed so the spread of infection at the company is almost impossible.
EDGECAM CAD/CAM Software Upgrade
A number of these productivity boosts have been achieved by reducing calculation time with EDGECAM 2021's enhanced parallel-processing capability. Two of the most popular machining cycles – Roughing and Profiling – benefit from improvements to the software's multi-threading technology algorithms. Three significant time savings: EDGECAM's world-leading high-speed Waveform Roughing strategy is now significantly faster when generating toolpath for both solid and wireframe components.
RFP Fringe Probe
The RFP projects a fringe pattern onto the part surface and the probe's camera captures the variation in fringe pattern to build a point cloud of 3D surface data. The data cloud is then evaluated by the 3D metrology software to deliver the inspection results.
Coolant bucket brigade be gone
Automated coolant delivery system enables unattended machining
Protect processes, collect data: Turning Performance
CoroPlus ProcessControl predicts, detects and reacts to machining process problems within milliseconds
Crafting craftspeople
Industry-led training and vocational programs are the solution to the shortage of workers.
History of Ampere and Kelvin
In the third installment of Metric Matters, Dr. Edumnd Isakov delves into the measurement of electric currents.
Meeting micromachining’s need for speed
Spindle speeders amply RPMs and get old machines moving faster
Making the grade: General Industry Coverage
When selecting the right tungsten-carbide grade, you need the full picture.
