Video: Micro Inspection at Matrix Tooling

A job shop owner talks about five-axis machining and feature-based programming.

The challenge holding tight tolerances for its billet RC helicopter engine components drove this company to develop an innovative fifth-axis tombstone device to complete multiple parts on an HMC in one setup.

This mold maker describes its use of both tilting-spindle and tilting-table five-axis machines.

Mazak offers its Orbitec 20 for manufacturers of valves and similar large components.

Through-tool liquid nitrogen turns the tool into a heat sink, extending tool life.

Video from Chiron America demonstrates the company’s Multi-Profile System, which combines a machining center with in-feed and out-feed accessories so that the compact machine can mill and drill long parts.

See a five-axis, bar-fed machining center creating a complex sample part complete from barstock.

East Texas Machine Works focuses on large-scale work. Here’s a video showing impressive boring operations on a marine component.

Die Tech & Engineering describes how palletization and five-axis machining work together to deliver efficiency.

This footage shows two-sided milling for fast production of square blanks.