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Machining Centers
When Two Spindles Are Better Than One
Machining centers with multiple spindles offer a compromise between flexibility and productivity. Different machine designs use the multiple spindles in different ways.
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Moving To Lean Manufacturing
Machining cells have replaced transfer lines as part of a $100-million-plus modernization program to machine drivetrain parts more efficiently and more cost effectively.
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Discovering 30-Taper Machines
They are now capable of handling many of the jobs traditionally done on larger machines. As this account shows, the development says a lot about what's happening in metalworking right now.
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A New Orientation
How a previously vertical-only shop made the transition to horizontal milling.
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Vertical Machining Center Helps Job Shop Stay Competitive
This shop has applied this vertical machining center to help with its core business of prototype and small runs.
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High Speed Machining, Italian Style
One of the highlights of BI-MU, Italy's recent biennial machine tool show, was the number of innovative machine tools (and related technology) focusing on high speed machining.
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A Boring System For Non-Round Holes
Machining an out-of-round bore is easy if you're not particular about the location or magnitude of the roundness error. But accurately machining a hole that has a precisely defined non-round profile is a capability that would seem to be well beyond what a standard boring bar can accomplish.
Read MoreManufacturer Slices Cycle Time 80 Percent
Most of this company's work is machined to tight tolerances and super-high finishes. It builds, assembles, tests and then ships a complete product. The many multi-faceted parts being machined typically required several setups on different machines, often with cumbersome pallet and indexing devices.
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Getting To Know Grob
With some familiar names in the machine tool building business fading away recently through mergers, acquisitions, or shutdowns, it may be interesting to learn of an unfamiliar or little known machine tool builder.
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Weighing The HMC's Pluses
A horizontal machining center enabled this scale manufacturer to get its machining department back into shape.
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