Tooling
Hydraulic Workholding Towers Offer as Many as 12 Clamping Stations
Kurt Workholding offers a complete line of high-density CarvLock workholding towers for precision machining with eight or 12 clamping stations in both manual and hydraulic models.
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The blog is scheduled to post quarterly with commentary, insights, smart manufacturing concepts and industry updates.
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Live Tooling for Popular Series of Turning Centers
Heimatec now offers live tooling for all popular models in the Hyundai, Miyano and Nakamura turning center lines.
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Clip-Holding, Release Device for Check Fixtures
Fractal Engineering has developed the Clip Buddy, a clip-holding and release device for check fixtures.
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End Mills Cut and Polish 2D Contours Simultaneously
Emuge has introduced its Cut & Form solid carbide finishing end mills, designed to perform both cutting and polishing in one operation.
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Making Mountains out of Mold Steel—Literally
When graphite molds wouldn’t cut it for a manufacturer of hand-blown drinking glasses, this shop machined more durable stainless steel molds to create the famous mountainous shapes that emerge from the bottom of its customer’s nifty drinkware.
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A New Turning Process Enables Cutting “In Reverse”
A methodology for cutting in both directions on a CNC lathe promises to make turning a much more productive operation in certain applications. New types of inserts driven by new CAM tool paths are key enablers of this development, but implementing the whole multifaceted system as a system is essential.
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Modular Connection System for Drilling, Boring, Tapping
Allied Machine & Engineering offers Wohlhaupter’s MVS modular connection system.
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Hot Temperatures (and Technologies) at Eastec 2017
Eastec’s peculiar Massachusetts venue offered the chance to sample a broad variety of advanced manufacturing technologies. Here is a slideshow and some impressions from the trade show.
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Cutting Edge Control Speeds Cross-Hole Deburring
As opposed to springs or other mechanical means of driving tool inserts into hole intersections, leveraging pneumatic or hydraulic pressure provides a means of process control beyond feed and speed adjustments.
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