Aerospace
Additively Manufacturing a Large Component with a Small Work Envelope
Airbus successfully reduced the weight of an aircraft partition by redesigning it for additive manufacturing. The large component was produced in pieces, with connection features built-in.
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Complete Machining of Large Aerospace Parts
Machine Specialties Inc. needed to produce large parts with a constantly increasing degree of complexity. The M120 Millturn from WFL enables the shop to process large components in only one clamping.
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Bidirectional Material Handling Vehicle Accommodates Tight Spaces
A report from Creform indicates that space restrictions need not prevent manufacturers from automating material handling applications.
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Applications Advance for Solid Ceramic End Mills
All they need is speed! Tools for roughing nickel-based alloys can be used in the same processes as carbide tools, just with high rpm and no coolant.
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What’s Behind Door Number Three?
While most shops are producing shorter aerospace parts on five-axis machines or larger parts on gantry-type equipment, this shop found its niche somewhere in the middle thanks to an advanced profiling machining system from Mazak.
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Precision Profiler Opens Chances for Larger Aerospace Parts
Fort Walton Machining could only process smaller aerospace parts without investing in large, expensive-to-operate equipment. Mazak's Vortex 160 horizontal profiler increased the shop's part size capabilities.
Read MoreMore Than Metal
Modern Machine Shop magazine doesn’t cover only the machining of metals. Here are some interesting tidbits about machining non-metallic materials from a few of my past stories.
Read MoreToyoda to Host Aerospace Machining Lunch & Learn with Iscar, Mastercam
The event will include educational seminars and machine demonstrations.
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Manufacturing News of Note: November 2016
A Brazilian student wins an advanced materials contest, Local Motors launches an SaaS division, Airbus certifies an additive material from Stratasys and other industry news.
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Large, Made to Order and Ready to Connect
The 30th edition of the Bi-Mu trade show in Milan, Italy, highlighted not only modular machine tools for work like machining aerospace structures, but also technology related to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and more.
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