Machining Centers
Best Practices: Machining Difficult Materials
Cutting hardened steel, titanium and other difficult materials requires picking the right tools, eliminating spindle runout and relying on best practices to achieve tight part tolerances.
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Modular Horizontal Machining Center Offers Uninterrupted Production
According to Starrag, the Bumotec 191neo offers twelve separate machines based on a single platform. The system is designed to address current and future challenges for medical technologies, the luxury industry and the micromechanics sector.
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How This Motorcycle Startup Will Succeed With U.S. Production
Land Moto is the founder’s second motorcycle company. The first time, production was in China. This time, several factors help advance the effort to produce a low-cost bike in the United States. One of these is the way electrification opens doors to suppliers.
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Automation Cell Outperforms CNC Machines Fourfold
An automated turnkey machining cell simplified one Utahan manufacturer’s part handling and halved its cycle times.
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Horizontal Machining Center From Okuma Offers New Features
The new machining center offers a larger work envelope, enhanced chip and coolant management functions and automation compatibility, among other features.
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Starrag's New Compact HMC Increases Speed, Output
The Heckert H65 provides traverse rates up to 80 m/min and a standard spindle speed of up to 10,000 revs/min from its 60 kW/450 Nm hollow shaft HSK-A100 spindle. A motor spindle with a run-up time of one second can be used for machining light alloys.
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Niigata Launches HMC With Hardened, Ground Inverted V-Shaped Slideways
According to Niigata, the HN800-V is built with the rigidity and accuracy necessary to perform ultra-precise contour machining and boring of components with critical tolerances.
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Back to the Charts for Productive Milling
Roughing operations can push a CNC spindle to its limits. Understanding how to interpret the horsepower chart can keep these operations within safe limits.
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Starrag Five-Axis HMC Joins AMRC's Factory of the Future
Starrag Heckert’s X40 joins a series of other multi-axis Starrag-supplied machines at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre’s Factory of the Future.
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Chiron Launches Twin-Spindle Vertical Machining Center
Chiron’s DZ 28 twin-spindle vertical machining centers features a 1,200 mm spindle clearance and a tool magazine with space for up to 60 tools.
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