Turn/Mill
Orthodontist Turns To CNC Swiss To Manufacture His Device
This orthodontist decided to take the plunge into CNC Swiss after having difficulty finding job shops with the machining time to make his parts, tiny components that go into an orthodontic appliance.
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When Does Hard Turn/Grind Make Sense?
Combining different operations on a single machine tool platform is an attractive and increasingly popular idea. It is in practice, however, not always a plug and play substitution. Optimizing distinct metalcutting operations into a single cycle takes planning and a good understanding of the pluses and minuses of each.
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Turning Centers Yield Solutions With Support
When this process engineer went searching for new turning centers for the Black&Decker plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he knew that he needed reliable machines, but he did not have a specific vendor in mind.
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Merging Functions For Better Efficiency
By eliminating extra steps, a multi-process machine enables a medical manufacturer to streamline its production time and conserve shop space.
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Prototypes . . . And Then Some
Turn-mill machines have made this prototype shop competitive for large-volume orders too.
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Making Short Work Of Small Lots
Multi-tasking is a word typically associated with the consequences of ever-changing human job descriptions. For the people at Mazak Corporation, however, the word applies equally to metalworking machines.
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Small Shop, Mighty Machines
Multitasking machines capable of completely machining complex, milled and turned parts in a single setup are powering this Chicago-area job shop's growth.
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Three Steps To Succeed As A Minority Automotive Supplier
When Gary Malloy and Reggie Ball formed Sturgis Machining in February 1998, it was with the intent of becoming a premier minority machine shop to General Motors.
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Manufacturer Takes Innovative Approach To Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Thousands of contract manufacturing shops across North America that produce commodity parts such as shafts, arbors, bearing races, gear splines, and so on, have one problem in common: how to do it faster and less expensively.
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Unique's Approach To Mold Making
This Canadian mold making shop, Unique Mould Makers, is aptly named. Virtually every multi-cavity injection mold set made for the manufacture of caps, closures, vials and other packaging applications is indeed unique. One might think that automation and standardization would not be of interest to such a shop. Think again!
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