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Tool Monitoring for Multitasking Machines
Continuously checking the condition of cutting tools and responding appropriately to wear or other changes is especially critical on machines designed to complete parts in a single setup or run several operation simultaneously.
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Chasing after Volumetric Accuracy
Grob Systems has developed a method of checking and compensating for possible distortions to a machine’s structure caused by the weight of a massive workpiece when it is machined in five axes.
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Smooth Technology Is New Concept for CNC
Smooth Technology is the umbrella term Mazak (Florence, Kentucky) is using to describe its new concept for the programming and control of complex, multi-axis machine tools.
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Video Highlights Extreme Part-Off Demos
The strength of a tough part-off tool is shown in video showing it parting off a railroad rail and sledgehammer head. Talk about significant interrupted cuts…
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Video: Applying “Dengeln” for Finishing Turbine Blades
This alternative to grinding, polishing and shot peening enables turbine blades to be machined and polished in one setup.
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Adopting a 24/7 Mindset
This shop considered a number of factors before establishing an effective process to run an HMC cell around the clock for applications in aerospace, oilfield and other industries.
Read MoreVideo: The HardFinisher from Praewema
New technology from Praewema enables a host of processes to be performed on one machine, using two spindles to cut teeth on internal or external gears.
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Video: Re-Use Soft Jaws with Expanding Pins
When tool-and-die and contract machine shop Baklund R&D developed a workholding device to solve a challenge with one of its own jobs, the company realized it potentially had a solution that could benefit many other shops as well.
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Video: What Is Additive Manufacturing?
What is additive manufacturing's role? What sort of parts are made through additive manufacturing? And will this process replace machining? Peter Zelinski responds to these and other questions.
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Forecasting the Future at GFMC
AMT’s annual forecasting conference uses past and present trends to help attendees prepare for the future.
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2015 Machine Tool Consumption Forecast – Up 37 Percent
Since two significantly down years after the financial collapse in the fall of 2008, machine tool consumption has been quite strong, performing at or above the historical average market. But 2015 looks to be the best post-recession year yet. According to the Gardner Research Capital Spending Survey and Forecast, metalcutting machine tool consumption will increase 37% next year.
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Developing the Cover's Cool Caliper
Here’s how the September cover of 91ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ÎÛ came to be.
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