October 2004 Issue
October 2004
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Modern Machine Shop
Vertical Grinding Has Advantages
In vertical grinding, the workpiece is held upright in a rotary chuck with the grinding spindle overhead. This configuration can improve roundness, facilitate single-setup processing and prolong the life of the machine. Loading and unloading may gets easier, too. Workpieces with relatively large diameters and short lengths benefit the most from vertical grinding.
Read MoreThe "Pluses" And & "Minuses" Of Indicator Dials
Despite their many "faces," dial indicators and test indicator dials tend to look pretty similar in that they all have graduations and numbers. This similarity is especially true of dial indicators that have balanced dials.
Read MoreA Simple Way To Implement A Qualified Tooling System
Shops often use a DNC system simply to transfer part program files to machine tools. While this certainly has its advantages, few shops use DNC in more advanced ways, such as a means of integrating a qualified (preset) tooling system to monitor tool life and speed setups.
Read MoreWhat Kind Of Work Is Resistant To International Outsourcing?
Here is one observer's list of the kinds of machining work that U.S. shops should focus on.
Read MoreLean Manufacturing Shapes A Cell
A machining cell that seeks to optimize product flow may look very different from a cell that seeks to optimize a machining process.
Read MoreCAM Software For Probing
Software for creating probing routines off-line promises to make machine tool probing easier to use. As a few examples show, different software providers look at this off-line programming in different ways.
Read MoreMold Machining And Beyond
Adopting high speed machining entailed some surprises. One of the surprises was an unforeseen opportunity for new work.
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