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One Five-Axis Process, 10 Elements of Automation
The new five-axis machine at Phoenix Proto has a pallet pool with loading system, but there are many other less obvious elements of automation in this precision mold-machining process that are just as essential.
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Vision System Assists On-Machine Probing for Fast Setups
The camera on this VMC combined with a tablet-like control helps speed and simplify on-machine probing routines during new job setups.
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What If You Don’t Have a Torque Wrench?
This device ensures that ER collets are torqued to the proper value using any type of wrench.
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Help Your Customers’ Engineers, Help Yourself
Here’s a way to clearly show how your shop’s design for manufacturability advice is helping your customers and, perhaps more importantly, your customers’ engineers.
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Top Shops Profile: Richards Industries
Richards Industries was 2017's Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of shopfloor practices.
Read MoreHelp Your Customers’ Engineers, Help Your Shop
One way to build customer relationships is by clearly demonstrating how your design-for-manufacturability advice is helping your customers’ engineers.
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Establishing an Effective Hard-Turning Process
In devising its hard-turning strategy, this die/mold shop has been able to speed the production of its new deep-draw round tooling offerings by turning them instead of grinding them after heat treating.
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An NTMA Opportunity That Pays off in Various Ways
The National Tooling and Machining Association’s fall conference is coming up, and the association is offering our readers an enticing deal to attend.
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Nozzle Technologies Speed Fusion Laser Cutting, Reduce Gas Consumption
Two nozzle designs developed for fusion laser cutting are said to boost feed rates by 100 percent and reduce nitrogen gas consumption by as much as 70 percent.
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Scanning Probe Application on a Swiss-Type
The following case study provided by Blum-Novotest describes how Karlheinz Lehmann GmbH in Oberwolfach, Germany, is able to maintain 2-micron parallelism of slots on a compressed-air coupling component for Parker Hannifin GmbH.
Read MoreAUKOM Is Coming to the United States
The AUKOM coordinate metrology training standard originated in Germany, but it could become the de facto, global training method for future production metrologists.
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Top Shops Profile: Land Sea Air Manufacturing
Land Sea Air was 2017's Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of business strategies.
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