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Tooling Supplier Expertise Lends Competitive Edge
8/14/2009
Even a shop that is committed to continually optimizing processes might struggle with the time and effort r...
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What Is The Best Way To Machine A Deep, Narrow Pocket In Titanium?
4/29/2009
Boeing’s answer to a reader question emphasizes the use of high-feed milling tools.
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How To Machine Aircraft Titanium: Getting The Metal Out
2/3/2009
Part of a series of articles on machining pockets in titanium parts, this article describes various options...
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Application Research For More Efficient Aircraft Machining
12/10/2008
A cutting tool supplier describes how application expertise is applied to improving productivity in aircraf...
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Challenges In Cutting CGI
1/1/2008
Compacted graphite iron is increasingly used for diesel and racing engine components. The choice of cutting...
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Beat The Heat With High-Pressure Coolant
11/15/2007
In lieu of traditional flooding measures, multitasking machine operators can use high-pressure coolant stra...
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Swiss-Type Turning Enables Faster, More Efficient Machining
6/14/2007
Prince Industries, a manufacturer of precision-machined components, says it strives to exceed the needs and...
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Applying Creative Workholding Techniques
5/1/2007
Not all parts can be fixtured by conventional workholding methods. Here are a few examples of ways that sho...
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Milling Adaptor: Reach Without Reluctance
12/22/2006
An alternative to conventional extended-reach toolholders, milling adaptors contain a custom damping mechan...
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Turning The Long And Difficult
9/20/2006
This shop has made large turning work its specialty. In proving to its customers that it can perform this d...
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Modular Tooling Interface Doubles As A Universal Workholding Device
2/10/2006
A precision drives manufacturer uses a quick-tool-change coupling in a new way-to secure critical component...
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CAM Adapts Feed Rates To Wiper Inserts
8/26/2005
Like many other businesses today, textile manufacturers compete against imports from countries with low lab...
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Making A Flexible Machine Tool More Flexible
8/12/2005
Multitasking cutting tools can maximize the flexibility of multitasking machines.
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Lean From The Get-Go
6/10/2005
This shop was lean from day one. Its visual management tools form its lean manufacturing foundation.
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Extreme Tool Setting
6/9/2005
A plant performing 79,000 tool setups per year measures these tools with one presetter and two gatekeepers....
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Stepping Up To Hole-Making Challenges
5/13/2005
Lately, several cutting tool manufacturers have re-examined indexable insert drills, seeking to overcome th...
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CAM Software For Turning With Wiper Inserts
4/12/2005
A wiper insert can achieve a smooth finish while turning at a high feed rate, but the insert's complex geom...
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Optimize Cutting Efficiency, Optimize Throughput
2/15/2005
A machining process based on maximizing cutting efficiency, rather than speeds and feeds, offers aerospace ...
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Applying Turn-Milling
8/16/2004
Combining a rotating tool with rotating work produces a machining operation that is distinct from standard ...
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The Technology Of Lean Machining
5/29/2004
This plant makes different choices for its machining cells depending on whether the parts to be machined th...
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Consider Passive Damping To Bore Deep Holes
3/20/2004
The old bromide, 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,' comes into play for preventing chatter ...
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Minimizing Vibration Tendencies In Machining
3/19/2004
Precision internal machining operations are now carried out almost exclusively using hard-metal or diamond ...
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A New Mechanism For Tool Changes
11/15/2003
After 3 years of lab tests, this tooling manfacturer has developed an entirely new type of spindle cartridg...
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Cutting Costs With Cutting Tools: Instead Of Life Or Price, Look To Capability
10/15/2003
A shop that wants to win cost savings from its cutting tool purchases is likely to take two factors into ac...
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Motor Maker Generates Savings With Turning And Milling Tool Changes
2/15/2003
For a busy manufacturer of high-efficiency industrial drives, turning and milling a hardened stainless stee...
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Aviation Component Supplier Cuts Setup Time With Productivity Partnership
7/15/2002
This shop turned to a tool supplier to help cut milling time on one alloy steel hydraulic body by 63 percen...
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Boosting Productivity For Turbine Engine Part Makers
5/15/2002
Compared with common steel, the heat-resistant super alloys (HRSAs) and other hard metals used in jet engin...
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Inserts For Difficult Materials
1/15/2002
Economic efficiency is an important consideration when choosing tools for challenging metals.
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Mills Hard Powder Metal With CBN Inserts
11/15/2001
This shop machines hard, abrasive metal components for plastics-compounding and extrusion machinery. The co...
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Retooling Saves Time And Space
4/15/2001
Fermer Precision machines a variety of precision parts from aluminum, cast iron, powdered metal, carbon ste...
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Coating Improvements For Steel Turning
1/15/2001
Relationships between coatings and substrate materials are keys to the performance of cemented carbide inse...
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Reducing Cycle Time With Tool Selection/Management Program
12/15/2000
Most products at BuTech are turned from Type 316 stainless steel bar stock with hardnesses of 28 to 32 HRC....
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Winner By A Nose!
7/15/2000
Wiper technology is designed to improve surface finish in machining applications. It involves an insert wit...
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Machining Services Contractor Runs Smoother Operation With CNC Program
1/15/2000
See how his contractor switched to MultiDNC to eliminate the use of laptops and provide daily backup of all...
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Tooling Tips For High Productivity Milling
10/15/1999
Today's machining centers feature higher spindle speeds and feed rates, but if you want to push this capabi...
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Mold Maker Reduces Cycle Time 50 Percent With New Drilling System
7/15/1999
Despite a 120 hour week and frequent overtime, Special Mold Engineering Inc. (Rochester Hills, Michigan) di...
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What Sandvik Coromant's New Insert Plant Signifies
6/15/1999
Sandvik Coromant's new insert finishing plant in Stafford, a suburb of Houston, Texas, doubles the company'...
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Job Shop Triples Bandsaw Productivity By Substituting Carbide For Bi-Metal Blade
4/15/1999
York Machine Shop Ltd. (Campbel1 River, British Columbia) cuts aluminum-bronze tube for a specialized pape...
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A Synergistic Approach To Machining Stainless Steel
1/15/1999
One of the most interesting examples of this synergy comes out of its cutting tool and specialty steel oper...
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Valve Maker
7/15/1998
After switching from a square-insert face-mill to a round-insert high-positive rake face mill, this company...
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Components Manufacturer Boosts Blade Life 15-Fold Sawing Iron Tubing
6/15/1998
Slicing blanks from centrifugal cast gray iron and ductile iron tubing dulls even the best bandsaw...
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Read Your Chips
4/15/1998
Are you sure you have the best insert for that turning operation? Check the chips, especially if you are ru...
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Tool And Die Shop Doubles Throughput On Steel Tubing Grooving
10/1/1997
With their conventional high-speed steel milling cutters, this shop experienced a series of problems produc...
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Should You Balance Your Tools?
8/1/1997
The answer varies from process to process. Experience is the best guide.
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Inserts Improve Milling Of Tough Steel Castings For Missouri Manufacturer
3/1/1997
When a Laurel, Missouri manufacturer of industrial equipment identified problems in their two machining ope...
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The 'All Round' Milling Insert
1/1/1997
Carbide milling inserts today are available in a staggering number of geometric shapes. No longer are the c...
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Half-Inch Holes With Indexable Inserts
6/1/1996
Small indexable inserts that can be used for hole drilling are a recent development.
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Five Key Concepts Of Modular, Quick-Change Tooling
5/1/1996
A tooling system consisting of interchangeable cutting units and standardized locking units has a lot to of...
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Mold Maker Profits By Teaming With Tooling Company, Distributor
4/1/1996
Productivity is up by 15 percent, tool life is up 20 percent and part cost is down 20 percent for ...
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Tooling Switch Improves Edge Life 25% For Bearing Manufacturer
10/1/1995
The words 'catastrophic failure' do not roll easily off the tongue when you are the production manager for ...