Turning Machines
Kays Engineering Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Kays Engineering began as a small welding and repair shop and quickly grew to become a designer and builder of custom machinery for the automotive industry, eventually acquiring three gundrilling machine manufacturers.
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Index President/CEO Retires, Announces Replacement
Cris Taylor will take over as the president and CEO of Index Corporation after Tom Clark retires at the end of 2020.
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High-Production Multitasking Becoming More Flexible
Platforms such as multi-spindles and rotary transfer machines remain well-suited for high-volume production but are now more accommodating to smaller batch sizes.
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Multitasking Machining Equipment: Now the New Normal
Machine tools that can perform turning, milling and other operations on one platform offer process efficiencies that more and more shops are leveraging to their advantage.
Read MoreTrak Machine Tools Opens New Showroom in Training Center
The partnership allows the supplier to better serve its customers in the region while equipping the workforce with advanced manufacturing skills.
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Romi's C Series Lathes Offer Flexibility
Romi’s C 420 CNC lathe features a distance between centers of 39" (1 m), while the C 510 has 59" (1.5 m) between centers, giving manufacturers flexibility in the length of the work they can machine.
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Growing a Job Shop into a Full-Service Manufacturer
By maximizing employee satisfaction, adding fabrication and other services, and always keeping open machine capacity, Square Deal has grown from a seven-person job shop to a full-service manufacturer that employs hundreds.
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Fuji Machine's CSD-300II Twin-Spindle Lathe Achieves High Productivity
Fuji Machine’s CSD-300II front-facing twin-spindle lathe is said to achieve greater productivity with the help of faster robot traverse and turret indexing speeds.
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Quick-Change Tooling Improves Swiss Lathe Profits
Horn USA has developed quick-change tooling systems to drastically reduce set-up and toolchange times for Swiss-type lathes, including those with through coolant.
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A Better Way to Cut Hard Metals and High-Temp Alloys on Swiss Lathes
New tooling for Swiss-type turning centers is designed for titanium, high temperature nickel alloys and other difficult materials with improved thermal management.
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