Advanced Machine & Engineering

Hennig, AME Expanding Multiple Illinois Facilities
The expansions of these sister companies will add some 100 jobs to the area and accommodate increased customer demand for the company’s machine tool protection and components products.

Automated Deep Drilling for Medical Applications
Eastec 2017: Available from Advanced Machine & Engineering, Tibo Tiefbohrtechnik’s E10 series of deep-drilling machines is designed to offer the precision required for bonescrews and other medical parts.

Case Study: Chip Conveyor System Saves Floor Space
Hennig explains how its CDF system is used to remove a variety of chips and save space for Advanced Machine and Engineering in this short video case study.

Compact Drawbar Enables Power-Off Clamping
Advanced Machine & Engineering offers the OTT-Jakob power drawbar for toolholding.

Flexible Fixturing Improves Cylinder Component Production
Advanced Machine and Engineering (AME) provides modular tombstone fixtures to run 56 different block sizes for Rockford, Illinois-area cylinder component manufacturer.

Saw/Drill Cuts Railroad Rails
The Amsaw R-series saw from Advanced Machine & Engineering is designed to produce smooth, accurate cuts, resulting in improved efficiency and productivity.

Five-Axis Clamp Eases Access to Workpieces
The Triag 5axesClamp from Advanced Machine & Engineering is designed to ease the difficulty that five-axis machines have reaching all areas parts using conventional workholding technology.

Power Drawbar Features Increased Spring Force
The OTT-Jakob power drawbar from Advanced Machine and Engineering is held securely in the spindle taper with gripper fingers.

Five-Axis Clamp for Complex Parts
Available from Advanced Machine & Engineering, the Triag 5axesClamp is said to help five-axis machine spindles reach all areas of a complex part.

Workholding Products for a Variety of User Needs
Advanced Machine & Engineering’s 12-page workholding solutions brochure features modular components, self-aligning fixture elements (S.A.F.E.), grids, force cartridges, tombstones, locating systems and high-density workholding systems.

Dovetail Vise-Clamping Component
AME says its dovetail vise clamping component is useful for a variety of applications and industries, especially aerospace aluminum milling applications. Precision bushing holes are designed for quick and easy location of the vise, the company says.

Dedicated Fixture Eases Large-Part Clamping
Large parts can be difficult to fixture for effecient machining. With a custom-designed Amrok fixture, workholding manufacturer Advanced Machine & Engineering was able to effectively clamp 5,000-pound sections of a slurry mining pump and significantly reduce cycle times.

5-Axis Workholding System
 Advanced Machine & Engineering announces the availability of the Triag 5axesClamp. According to the company, the spindle on a five-axis machine often has difficulty reaching all areas of a complex part using conventional workholding technology. The Triag workholding system minimizes interference, allowing machining spindles full access to workpieces, even in high-density applications.

Hydraulic Workholding Doubles Output
When customer-supplied fixtures just weren’t cutting it, this automotive shop turned to Advanced Machine & Engineering for dedicated, hydraulic tombstones to use on its high-volume production runs. The new fixtures have since reduced load/unload time, cycle time and scrap rates while providing error-free loading.

Stress-Relieved Tombstones For CNC Machines