Videos

In the debut episode of The CNC Chef, Bob Warfield from CNCCookbook.com cautions against slowing down your feed rate to avoid tool rubbing. A new monthly video series from Cutting Tool Engineering, The CNC Chef will address a variety of machining challenges in the coming months.

Highlighting the benefits of modular metrology fixtures versus traditional methods, this brief video covers the differences in set-up times, ease of set up, inspection repeatability, part stability and metrology accuracy.

A shop contacted the Grinding Doc to find out why it was getting a "horrible" surface finish when it first puts on an electroplated wheel. Dr. Jeffrey Badger, who writes the Ask The Grinding Doc column for Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, explains the issue in the 75th episode of the Grinding Doc video series.

Okuma America Corp. demonstrates the 3D manual feed function with the OSP-P300M control in a video posted to the company's YouTube channel on Jan. 10. The video presents a 3D manual operation that reportedly allows the user to follow the tool axis direction with the rotary axes. The function, which allows the user to "jog" and "pulse" feed, is said to offer an easy approach to check clearance issues between the workpiece, the saddle and other components.

Stewart Palmer, an engineer at family-owned North Bucks Machining Ltd., Milton Keynes, U.K., said the small parts manufacturer designed and produced its Alpha mountain bike to showcase the shop's capabilities using its existing machines and software.

Todd Cox, field sales engineer with Allied Machine & Engineering Corp., discusses the changes in the holemaking technologies for the automotive industry during this 8-minute video podcast.

Shop Ingenuity is the first in a planned series of video reports featuring shop innovations. In the debut episode, Cutting Tool Engineering visits with CNC Supervisor Jeffrey Johnson at Tuttle Manufacturing in Barrington, IL. Johnson set out to improve the production time for a part that the shop has been running every other month for a customer who continues to increase the order each time. 

Using its Crazy Drill Cool SST-Inox, Mikron Corp. Monroe demonstrates fast drilling in stainless steel, heat-resistant superalloys and more.

A shop asks Dr. Jeffrey Badger about applying Norton SG grits in the 74th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc video series.

This CTE+ report offers a first-hand account of how two 5-axis CNC milling machines from Hurco North America's helped Mast Motorsports replace some technologically obsolete production equipment.

"There was plenty to see, eat, drink, learn and hear at the United States Cutting Tool Institute’s (www.uscti.com) 2016 Fall Meeting, held Oct. 15-17 at the Omni Royal hotel in New Orleans," writes Cutting Tool Engineering Publisher Don Nelson. "As a former resident of Louisiana, I already knew the best places in the Crescent City to sightsee (Lower Garden District), eat (any po’boy stand) and imbibe (Napoleon House)."

The cutting edges of cutting tools don’t actually produce chips. Instead, the pressure of a rapidly spinning tool on a workpiece plasticizes part of the parent material, creating a shearing effect that forces the material to ride up the tool. The flute and tool geometries form the chip and force it away from the tool body until it breaks off and evacuates. Iscar Metals Inc. produced a video depicting this process.

Heimatec President Preben Hansen covers the company's assortment of standard and customized live and static tooling, including angle head and the company's patented UTEC quick-change tooling, during a video interview conducted during IMTS 2016 by Bernard & Company, an industrial advertising and public relations agency.

Thomas Simmich, Schütte LLC's group leader for global medical market sales, is interviewed at IMTS 2016 by Bernard & Company, an industrial advertising and public relations agency. Simmich discusses the company's new 325 linear grinder with collaborative robot integration.

EMAG LLC President Peter Loetzner discusses the company's line of vertical spindle machine tools as well as the company's new ECM/PECM and laser technologies for a video report produced during IMTS 2016 by Bernard & Company, an industrial advertising and public releations agency.

Cutting Tool Engineering visited with G.W. Schultz Tool during IMTS 2016. Tomas Roman, inside sales manager for G.W. Schultz Tool, provides the play-by-play for a demonstration of the company's Alumigator roughing and ramping endmill.

Chris Merlin, director of portfolio commercialization for the WIDIA Products Group, visited with Cutting Tool Engineering Publisher Don Nelson during IMTS 2016 to discuss the company's 90-year milestone and latest technology, including the VariMill Modular System, the VariTap and the features of the NOVO app.

Cutting Tool Engineering visited with Kennametal Inc. during IMTS 2016 at Chicago's McCormick Place. Bill Redman, global product manager of tooling systems for Kennametal Inc., outlines the key features of the company's latest spindle and tooling connection system, the KM4X.

CTEPLUS visits the ATS Systems booth at IMTS 2016 for a demonstration of the Xcelerate robot from Cellro, a robotic automation company located in Veenendaal, The Netherlands.

Methods Machine Tools showed off its 3D part-picking cell during IMTS 2016 held at McCormick Place in Chicago last week. Methods' Zachary Hallowell, Mechanical Engineer, Automation Team, provides a guided tour of the system.