May 2000 Issue
May 2000
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Modern Machine Shop
Turning Wheel Hubs? Think About More Than Just Turning
Automotive suppliers are today being asked to supply wheel, brake and suspension components to ever-tighter tolerances. To accomplish this, single suppliers are taking responsibility for delivering more than turned blanks. They take more control of the process by performing turning, gauging, testing and assembly—on demand. Here’s one shop’s approach.
Read MoreInterlocking Serrated Surfaces Enhance Modular Fixturing
This pedestal-type workholding fixture matches its grooves and ridges naturally and automatically aligns the surfaces of the workpiece, making subsequent reclampings highly repeatable.
Read MoreRethinking Indexers And Rotary Tables
Affordable indexers and fourth-axis rotary tables greatly enhance the capability of vertical machining centers. It’s almost as good as having a horizontal machining center.
Read MoreCutting The Cost Of Custom Machines
There is a gap between the price of one of this builder's custom machines and the maximum price that even many large contract shops can afford to pay for capital equipment. But that gap is getting smaller.
Read MoreMachining The Majority Of Job Shop Parts
This builder has introduced a compact vertical machining center and a compact lathe, both with the same full CNC functionality as larger machines.
Read MoreAgile Or Lean?
Either way, machining centers may make sense. When CNC machines are used for high-volume work, this question comes first.
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