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Aerospace
Lights-Out With A Lighter Commitment
For this integrated flexible pallet cell, the machines and the pallet system came from different suppliers. The shop is not locked into any supplier for adding machining centers later.
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Virtual Machining In The Real World
Using software that models machining passes, a Cessna plant unlocks real capacity by finding better parameters for its existing NC programs.
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Everything Changes
Through a sweeping transition to high speed machining, a Maryland contract shop realizes its goal of same-day, "in by 9, out by 5" turnaround.
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Cutting Tools For High Speed Milling Of Aluminum
Go with the flow—chip flow, that is. The uninterrupted flow of the soft aluminum chip determines the design of the end mills that Metlfab uses.
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Turning The Tide
When Briggs & Stratton decided to make the crankshaft machining lines in its Poplar Bluff plant globally competitive, it had to choose between CNC lathes and dedicated special machines for its main turning operations. The company chose the lathes.
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Move The Program Instead Of The Part
A complex five-axis part with hard-to-reach datums is machined in two setups instead of eight, thanks to a process that rewrites the tool paths to match the part's position.
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Aerospace Hole Making Takes Shape
The demand for fast hole making will intensify as more fuel-efficient jet engines are introduced. Electrical discharge machining is emerging as the answer.
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A Two-Speed Approach To Plunge Roughing
In plunge roughing, the strategy is in the stepover. Here is a plunge roughing strategy that has worked well for Boeing researchers.
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Thinking Big
This shop specifies large machine tools for the machining possibilities of the future. To prepare for the feed rates the shop expects to use one day, the latest large gantry mills apply linear motors on all three linear axes.
Read MoreAerospace OEMs Back A Lean Sea Change
A lean enterprise initiative comprised of aerospace primes and their suppliers, attempts to bring commonality to the supply chain. Its strategy is to provide a gage to measure lean progress and a roadmap to the higher levels of process maturity.
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