Articles
Innovate Faster with In-House Manufacturing
"The Edge Factor's" tour of judges recently visited Cane Creek Cycling Components to discuss the company's decision to bring previously outsourced machining work back in-house.
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Top Five Blog Posts: Celebrating Two Years
Our metalworking blog is officially two years old. Here is a look at the top five posts, along with some of our editors’ favorites.
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Double-Disc Wheel Changes Don’t Have to Be a Chore
C & B Machinery has patented a device to assist skilled trades with safe removal and installation of disc grinding wheels.
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Making It Easier to Program Turbo-Machinery Parts
5-Axis MultiBlade from Gibbs & Associates is designed to make it easier for CNC programmers to create five-axis tool paths for machining blisks, impellers and similar turbo-machinery parts.
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Improved Break-Out Detection for Small-Hole EDM
The Current EDM RT6050 features software and hardware upgrades that improve the ability to detect when the electrode breaks out of the bottom of a hole.
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Machine Tool Orders Pick Up at Year End
Machine tool orders in December 2011 reached its second highest in regards to number of units and real dollars sold since March 2008.
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A Big-Picture View of Micromachining
Matrix Tooling makes injection molds for components that have features you cannot see.
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Targeted Five-Axis Machining
Focusing on a particular part size range allows this shop to use a versatile type of five-axis machine tool. Five-axis machining now makes up 40 percent of the shop’s business.
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Manufacturer’s Apprentice Selections All Had Jobs
As it turns out, having a job—any job—is a strong indicator of success.
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Micromachining Composites with Sand
Sand blasting and photolithography combine to enable fast machining of multiple, accurate features into composites.
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Grinder Features New Guideway Design
StuderGuide combines the advantages of hydrostatic and hydrodynamic guideways.
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