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Faster Milling of EDM Electrodes With Retrofit CNC Package
This precision moldmaker working out of his garage wanted to compete with bigger shops that had Computer Numerical Control (CNC) equipment. This led him to consider retrofitting his manual Kent milling machine with a CNC retrofit package. And he did.
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Modern CNC Control Systems for High Speed Machining
All around the world, companies that machine molds and dies face numerous challenges as well as numerous opportunities. How these companies are responding are influencing the entire metalworking industry.
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Long-Distance CNC Service
To most users, the talk so far about the potential of 'open' PC-based CNCs has greatly exceeded the benefits. Here's one application that delivers the goods.
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Under Control
This small-parts machining operation combines superbly automated workholding and handling with total machining process management.
Read MoreJob Shop Provides Machine Operators With Job-Related Data In Real-Time
This shop, which specializes in large parts for power generation, aerospace and defense, decided it wanted to provide machine operators with every piece of information for the job at hand, in one place, at one time and in real-time.
Read MoreSlashing Part-To-Part Programming Time On The Shop Floor
How do you improve productivity with the excessive amount of time and effort it takes to program parts before they can be run on the shop floor? As parts have become more complex over the years and demands for accuracy have become more stringent, the challenge has become even greater. Shop owners are faced with the dilemma of being even more productive, while still spending hours programming machinery before cutting their first parts. Now there is an option for shop owners that enables them to go from part to part on the shop floor without involving off-line programmers.
Read MoreCompany Provides Fast Turnaround For Molds For Sunglasses
Bausch and Lomb, the optics manufacturer, needed aluminum rapid prototype molds for the introduction of its Inertia Combo Ray-Ban sunglasses line. The schedule allowed for less than four weeks from completion of the geometry to the first molded plastic parts. The company turned to the two-year-old ROMOLD, Inc. for quick turnaround of the plastic injection molds from Bausch and Lomb's Unigraphics design files.
Read MoreBig Time Savings On Large Scale Manufacturing
This company supports seven CNC machines which are fed by a computer on the shop floor. That computer is connected directly to a computer in the drawing office, giving complete control over each part being machined. In the past much of the company's 3D work had to be subcontracted, which meant transporting the parts, some massive, to other premises so that they could be dressed.
Read MoreCommunicating With The Machine Tool
If you continue to operate a bankrupt company in the same manner, you will continue to be bankrupt. This was the primary thought of Steve Brown before he acquired a failed stretch forming company in Gardena, California. Mr. Brown was President of Camarillo Dynamics, an aerospace machining company.
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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