Insert issues
A number of factors should be considered when selecting indexable inserts.
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Safety, Standards & Compliance
Building on a beetle
Being run over by a car is not a near-death experience for a diabolical ironclad beetle. How it survives could inspire the development of materials with the same herculean toughness.n
Machine monitoring goes remote
Machine monitoring can make shop operations more efficient, especially in a pandemic.
Surveyor’s and Mesh Safety Vests
The Surveyor's Safety Vests are designed with full, tear resistant woven construction for maximum durability to survive the most rugged environments and built to carry more with 27 pockets. The Surveyor's Vests are Type R Class 2 Rated** and recommended when working in environments requiring additional visibility, when working around heavy machinery or traffic traveling under 50 MPH. The vests are offered in both yellow and orange color variations.
With MQL, less is more
Two machining applications show the gains that minimum quantity lubrication can provide.
Eriez white paper attacks metal contamination
Eriez' new white paper, "Six Ways to Attack Metal Contamination to Improve Product Purity and Avoid Recalls," covers best practices processing plants should implement to achieve the highest product purity and avoid costly tramp metal damage.
Flexi Compact Modular Safety Controller
The Flexi Compact safety controller offers users in the machine building sector improved usability in many areas. The modular hardware platform enables integration in a flexible, application-appropriate, and cost-efficient manner. If the demands on the safety controller increase, it can subsequently be adapted or extended by up to 12 modules. The Safety Designer engineering tool with its certified function blocks guarantees intuitive, fast, and easy configuration and documentation of the safety logic via drag and drop.
ISOtunes XTRA 2.0 and ISOtunes LINK
These new Bluetooth products maintain ISOtunes' SafeMax Technology while introducing enhancements in design and functionality. Unlike most headphones, all ISOtunes headphones limit the volume to 85 decibels (dB) and offer a noise reduction rating (NRR) between 22 and 29 dB, making them OSHA and NIOSH compliant.
Larger Measurement Range for MCS10 Multicomponent Sensor
As part of the well-known MCS10 series, this latest version features capacities double the size of the previous version, making it suitable for nominal loads of 40 kN for Fx/Fy, 200 kN for Fz, 3.5 kNm for Mx/My and 3.0 kNm for Mz. The sensor also offers high accuracy, IP67 protection, low crosstalk, compensation matrixes, TEDS and a wide temperature range.
Safety Resource Microsite
Educational content on the new Online Safety Resource includes Safety Data Sheets which are accessed by entering the UPC code found on Norton products. Safety Guides for Norton's most popular products such as Grinding Wheels, Portable Wheels and Coated/ Non-Woven Abrasives are offered. Ten informative Safety Videos cover a range of applications including using form belts, precision grinding and dressing, guard conversions on right angle grinders, wheel mounting, abrasives use on railroads and in foundries, and grinding wheel safety presented in English, Spanish and French.
FOX HE 1000 Electrostatic Oil Mist Collector
Designed and manufactured by LNS for easy maintenance, the HE 1000 filters typically require cleaning once or twice each year and the variable speed motor enables infinite airflow for any application, thus further reducing maintenance. The HE 1000 electrostatic oil mist collector compliments the existing LNS FOX air filtration product line that includes the WS 2 and WM Series multi-stage oil/coolant mist collectors for all machine types and processes using water-soluble, synthetic or neat oil coolants to achieve 99% filtration, and the LNS ChipBLASTER MB Series for water-based applications.
Tool balancing basics
A balanced tool can help tremendously to reduce costs.