Swiss Happens: 8 Swiss-Type Articles to Keep Your Skills Sharp
Learn the history of Swiss-type lathes, practical ways to implement these sliding-headstock machines in your shop, and much more in this collection of articles.
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From the evolution of Swiss-type lathes to training tips straight from the shop floor, these articles showcase how machine shops are getting the most out of their Swiss investments. Whether you’re just dipping a toe into Swiss turning or already deep in the cycle, there’s something here to turn your attention.
6 Tips for Training on a Swiss-Type Lathe
There are nuances to training a person to effectively operate a Swiss-type lathe. A shop Derek Korn visited a while back offers some suggestions.
A History of Precision: The Invention and Evolution of Swiss-Style Machining
In the late 1800s, a new technology — Swiss-type machines — emerged to serve Switzerland’s growing watchmaking industry. Today, Swiss-machined parts are ubiquitous, and there’s a good reason for that: No other machining technology can produce tiny, complex components more efficiently or at higher quality.
3 Stories of Swiss First Additions
A few shops share their stories about the how’s and why’s of adding their first Swiss-type CNC turning center as well as lessons learned along the way.
How to Start a Swiss Machining Department From Scratch
When Shamrock Precision needed to cut production time of its bread-and-butter parts in half, it turned to a new type of machine tool and a new CAM system. Here’s how the company succeeded, despite the newness of it all.
Faster Swiss-Type Setup is a Probing Issue
Perhaps no other technological development has impacted setup time reduction on Swiss-type lathes more than automatic tool probing functions.
Inside the Premium Machine Shop Making Fasteners
AMPG can’t help but take risks — its management doesn’t know how to run machines. But these risks have enabled it to become a runaway success in its market.
Succeeding at Swiss
McCormick Industries is no stranger to Swiss-type machining. Here are examples of ways the shop has found to become more efficient not only at using its CNC sliding-headstock machines, but at its overall shopfloor processes and practices, too.
VIDEO: Swiss Shop’s Choice of Collets Facilitates Backworking
This Swiss shop discovered workholding collets that satisfy the needs of its very small, delicate and complex medical parts production on the subspindle, making once impossible processes not only doable but more efficient and esthetically pleasing.
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