Automation
Flexible Unattended Machining Helps Improve Part Quality And More
In its desire to use new methods, the shop looked for a product that would increase tool life, improve part quality and decrease changeover time. It found the One-Touch flexible manufacturing system (FMS) from Okuma and became the first to own one.
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This Job Shop Found Success with Swiss-Type Turning
This northern Ohio job shop is very good at making parts on Swiss-type machines. It's evolved the business from manual engine lathes to lights-out manufacturing. Success didn't come easily, but it has indeed come to this shop.
Read MoreProfibus
Profibus is an international vendor-independent, open fieldbus standard based on the European fieldbus standard EN 50 170. Although applicable to CNC machine I/O, it was created for a much broader segment of industry that includes building automation, industrial automation and process control.
Read MoreThe Right CAM Program Helps Machine Maker Meet Mandate
Mueller Tool and Machine's main focus is designing and building machinery that forms and finishes copper-tubing fittings for the plumbing and heating marketplace. Not available commercially, its custom machinery includes machines for facing copper fittings, and hydraulic presses with closed-loop programmable ram-control--which automate the push-forming of copper elbows.
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Get A Grip On Process Improvements
Innovative workholding solutions help you hold onto productivity and profit in a machining process. Five new ideas show the value of creative clamping and fixturing.
Read MoreWhich Is Faster, G00 or G01?
Special thanks to Kyle A. Thornley, Technical Instructor at GE Fanuc Automation, for explaining the principles described in this article.
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Smart And Efficient
Deft use of macros for 'family-of-features' NC programming allows this compressor manufacturer to do in minutes what once took hours, and get more consistent machining processes in the bargain.
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Robots Join EDM and Graphite Mill for Fast Mold Production
An EDM plus a robot makes a dynamic duo. A graphite mill plus a robot makes another. Put them all together in one shop and you have a radical new way to speed mold production.
Read MoreRobots Then And Now
About 15 years ago, an article like this one (Dynamic Duo) was eagerly sought after. Back then, robots were all the rage, the most glamorous thing to happen to manufacturing in decades.
Read MoreShort Bar Loader Helps Job Shop Meet Tolerance Specs And Throughput Goals
Maintaining high accuracy and repeatability in production parts requires precision workholding systems as well as precision machine tools. To help machine a particularly complex, high volume part, the company has installed magazine short bar load systems to complement production lathes.
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