Machining & Manufacturing

Machining a keyway is usually a secondary milling operation that adds time to production.

Structural layout has a large bearing on the accuracy and productivity of bridge-type VMCs.

The Microgage 2000 machinery-alignment kit is for checking stage and slide travel to measure straightness and run out.

Hydraulic advances upgrade off-highway equipment

The Model P-1500 hydraulic orbital forming machine is said to be the largest machine in its class.

Step-reduction milling, an NC method for more efficiently roughing a part, was awarded U.S. Patent No. 6,704,611 B2 on March 9.

Tight control helps waterjet cutters slice through just about anything.

Plastic/metal hybrid technology joins steel to steel via a plastic component that fastens as a rivet during injection molding.

It's easy to design a lens that is costly to produce. A few tricks can keep things economical.

A new floor track system from ATR Strothmann uses a round rail set into and nearly flush with the floor to make it easy to move heavy loads.

New coupling method eliminates the juggling act commonly associated with pneumatic-tube installations.

The Module-Mation MM400 three or four-axis machining module from SKF Precision Technologies features a reconfigurable spindle, column position, way style, and compound X-Z or Z-Y axes to make manufacturing cells more versatile and economical.

The Thread-Milling Wizard from Seco-Carboloy, Warren, Mich., is a program that simplifies the complicated programming associated with thread milling by quickly generating CNC codes for specific threadmill cycles.

A new Web-based program educates tooling users on the finer points of tooling selection.

It was not an easy decision for a German-based company to choose American roll grinders, but the investment doubled productivity and significantly improved product surface quality.