VIDEO. Here is the training film a job shop developed to help its employees understand 5S.

 VIDEO. The ability to measure tool offsets while the tool is spinning can improve both the accuracy and performance of the process in various ways.

Here is one custom machine builder’s system for producing a 40-foot part that has to be passed through the turning center and out the other side. INCLUDES VIDEO.

This manufacturer’s use of live-tool lathes overcomes labor cost in various ways. One of the latest sources of savings involves bringing another operation—hobbing—into these machines. INCLUDES VIDEO.

VIDEO. This footage illustrates shows how the toolholder taper is measured in a test designed to capture the retention knob’s effect on the shape of the toolholder taper.

VIDEO. This footage shows a workpiece gripper that enables a machine to load and unload workpieces on its own.

Machining internal threads in difficult materials is challenging, especially when hole diameters are small. Thread milling offers advantages for these applications that are important to consider.

 Smooth finish comes from balanced cutting parameters, as this video explains.

 This footage on a small drilling machining also includes machining with full-size tools in the same cycle.

Video shows the smooth, quiet, rapid motion characteristic of effective micromilling.