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Expanding The Expanding Mandrel's Usefulness
This expanding mandrel is designed to locate and hold thin-walled parts on the ID to avoid distortion during precision machining. It can also be used to hold heavy parts with large bores for heavy machining operations.
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Why We Use Honing
 A gear manufacturer describes the advantages it realizes by sizing and finishing bores through automated honing.
Read MoreBoosting Machine Spindle Speed For Micromachining Applications
Small-diameter micromachining tools require very high rpm for sufficient cutting speed and material removal rates. This air spindle provides 80,000 rpm and an untethered compressed air interface to allow automatic changeovers using the machine's ATC.
Read MoreCutting With A 0.001-Inch End Mill
JPL’s Space Instrument Shop does this routinely, but it takes some special equipment and some unusual procedures. Above all, it takes patience.
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The World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey
Read MoreAccessing Hidden Capacity in Medical Device Manufacturing
(MMS Online Exclusive) Data collection is an essential step in process improvement, allowing engineers to determine root causes and to ensure processes remained fixed permanently. The CNC machine tool is capable of capturing and communicating the status of operations and can be incorporated into a comprehensive automated data collection and analysis infrastructure that allows assigned resources to focus on implementing the best process improvements.
Read MoreEngineering The Toolholder Assembly Process
This assembly and mounting device for V-flange toolholders is designed to make it easier and safer to put toolholders, collets and cutting tools together. The device allows the toolholder to be clamped securely and rotated so that both ends of the assembly are accessible to the user in a comfortable position.
Read MoreGetting A Visual On Machine Maintenance
A software package allows real-time process monitoring of machine tools in operation. Its graphical interface speeds fault identification and machine servicing.
Read MoreThe Laser’s Role In Micromachining Metals
A new laser technology combines the high machining accuracy and throughput required for precision, industrial micromachining work.
Read MoreSingle System Offers Multiple Finishing Processes For Small Parts
An electrochemical finishing technology geared toward small workpieces cleans, deburrs, passivates, polishes and stress relieves workpieces all at once.
Read MoreMolds In Miniature
A shop that makes tooling for metal injection molding (MIM) relies on a machining center designed specifically for micro-scale work.
Read MoreRelieving Bottlenecks At The Measurement Station
Throughput is as much an issue in measurement as it is in machining. Likewise, multipart setups can improve measurement throughput in much the same way they contribute to machining throughput. A special part fixture used in conjunction with an automated contour and surface-roughness measuring system allows four workpieces to be checked one after the other, with no operator intervention.
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