Stephanie Hendrixson

Stephanie Hendrixson Contributing Editor, Modern Machine Shop

Cutting Tools

Face-Grooving System Expands Depth Range

Horn’s 25A face grooving system includes a toolholder with square shanks, cassettes and round shanks with internal coolant to boost chip flow.

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Turning Machines

Flat-Bed Lathes Promote Rigidity

Acra Machinery’s FEL-2600 series CNC lathes feature rugged Meehanite castings with thick, widely-spaced cross supports and induction-hardened ground ways to provide maximum accuracy and rigidity.

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Cutting Tools

Tooling for Aerospace Materials Available

Intrepid Tool Industries offers its 2015/2016 full-line catalog, featuring its current offering of drills, reamers and countersinks suitable for machining composites, aluminum, titanium and other aerospace materials.

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Measurement

Dimensional Metrology Products Catalog Available

A product catalog from Mahr Federal covering the company’s full range of dimensional metrology products and systems is now available in print, PDF and online digital versions.

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CAD/CAM

CAM Software Reduces Five-Axis Cycle Times

DP Technology’s Esprit 2015 CAM software offers improvements for intelligent machining, strategic machining, CAD-CAM data exchange and cloud-enabled CAM.

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Workholding

Air Chucks Offer Extended Stroke

Samchully Workholding’s PAC series of extended-stroke Mega Bore air chucks are designed for pipe and tubular applications.

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Portable Fan Offers Quiet Operation

The Black Jack portable fan from Big Ass Fans is designed for versatility, with a 6.5-ft (2-m) frame that fits through interior doorways.

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CAD/CAM

CAM for Moldmaking Simplifies Rib Programming

Delcam’s PowerMill programming software for five-axis and high-speed machining offers new developments for moldmaking, including improvements to the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy, enhanced collision checking, toolpath simulation and verification, and a new module for machining ribs into tooling.

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CAD/CAM

CAM Software Boosts Milling Flexibility

CNC Software’s Mastercam X8 Mill offers expanded machining flexibility and an increased emphasis on speed and automation.

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Mapal USA Appoints CEO and President

The cutting tool manufacturer produces PCD and carbide tools at two U.S. locations.

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Turn/Mill

Subspindle Multitasking Center Extends Bed

Available from Methods Machine Tools, the Nakamura-Tome AS-200LMY-S subspindle multitasking turning center offers an upgraded long bed.

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Production Management Software Monetizes Machine Performance

5ME’s eScore production management software feature generates a monetized version of machine tool performance based on six span-time categories defined by AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology: plant shut-down, scheduled downtime, delay time, repair time, not in-cycle process time and in-cycle time.

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