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Turning Tools

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.

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Grinding

Video: 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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Workholding

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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Turning Tools

An Extreme Part-Off Demo Returns to IMTS 2014

The strength of part-off tools is shown in demonstrations whereby they part off a railroad rail and sledge hammer head. Talk about significant interrupted cuts…

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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 91ÊÓÆµÍøÕ¾ÎÛ came to be.

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Improvement Is Not Optional

No matter how busy this shop gets, it continues to pull teams of employees out of production so they can focus on solving problems to make incremental process changes. The advances add up. Today, this is a very different shop than it once was.

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From Media to Manufacturing

Video producers with no previous knowledge of CNC discover the power and possibilities of modern machine tool technology. Their example says something about where manufacturing talent might come from, and also about the importance of manufacturing as a whole.

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