When To Combine Milling And Turning
Turn/Mill technology enables users to complete a workpiece in a single handling. This article looks at some of the criteria that make application of this multi-tasking productive.
Cylinder Head Porting On A Turn/Mill Machine
This complex milling operation is performed effectively on a machine that does turning.
Applying Turn-Milling
Combining a rotating tool with rotating work produces a machining operation that is distinct from standard turning or milling.
When Does Hard Turn/Grind Make Sense?
Combining different operations on a single machine tool platform is an attractive and increasingly popular idea. It is in practice, however, not always a plug and play substitution. Optimizing distinct metalcutting operations into a single cycle tak...
Merging Functions For Better Efficiency
By eliminating extra steps, a multi-process machine enables a medical manufacturer to streamline its production time and conserve shop space.
Prototypes . . . And Then Some
Turn-mill machines have made this prototype shop competitive for large-volume orders too.
Making Short Work Of Small Lots
Multi-tasking is a word typically associated with the consequences of ever-changing human job descriptions. For the people at Mazak Corporation, however, the word applies equally to metalworking machines.
Small Shop, Mighty Machines
Multitasking machines capable of completely machining complex, milled and turned parts in a single setup are powering this Chicago-area job shop's growth.
Unique's Approach To Mold Making
This Canadian mold making shop, Unique Mould Makers, is aptly named. Virtually every multi-cavity injection mold set made for the manufacture of caps, closures, vials and other packaging applications is indeed unique. One might think that automation...
Flexibility Doesn't Have To Be A Stretch
This company complements automatic machines with a versatile CNC turning center. The strategy provides many of the advantages of a fully flexible process.
