Five-Axis
Video: 3+2 Mold Machining at Eifel
A maker of injection molds for high-appearance-quality parts describes the machine tool, software and strategy this shop uses to apply 3+2 machining.
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Another Angle On HSM
The savings in setup time were welcome enough, but this mold maker found that a 3+2 machining center also accelerated its use of high speed machining.
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The Progress of a Progressive Die Maker
This shop sees no long-term threat in the reality of lower prices. Machine tool investments related to various die components allow the shop to use skilled labor more efficiently.
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Mill’s Integral Rotary Axis Allows Turning
Video: Spanish machine tool builder Ibarmia offers a moving column machine that has an interesting table-within-a-table configuration.
WatchFive-Axis Technology
HyperMill from Open Mind Technologies features five-axis technology including automated cutter orientation techniques, collision detection and collision avoidance methods.
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Video: High Speed Milling—900 ipm
Demonstation illustrates the kind of metal removal rate that is possible in aluminum at dynamically stable speeds.
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Multi-Way Innovation
The DMF 260 linear from DMG now offers a 3,150-ipm rapid traverse, 15. 7" longer Y path and 7.9" more space in the Z direction, compared to the smaller machine. All of the moving-column machining centers in the series are suited for aerospace applications and machine construction as well as tool making and mold production.
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Five-Axis Machine For Dental Applications
Sauer’s Ultrasonic 10 from DMG is a compact, five-axis machine designed for dental indications in soft plastics, demanding metals and high-strength zircon oxide materials.
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Shop Enjoys Five-Axis Benefits Without The Cost
Integrating Lyndex-Nikken rotary tables into three-axis Mori Seiki VMCs provided this shop with five-axis capability at a fraction of the cost of a new five-axis machine.
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Tool Certainty
For GKN Aerospace to overcome tool-related variations on its largest milling machines, it had to confront error sources that go unnoticed in many shops.
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