Turning Machines

Automation

Autoloading For Short Runs

Not too long ago, automatic load-unload was strictly for long production runs. Here is a system that makes it cost effective for short-run turning.

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Turning Machines

Mold Machining In Motion

This shop's strategy for limiting lead time on large molds affects the choice of machine tool. It also affects who does the programming.

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Turning Machines

Center-Drive Offers A Turning Alternative

An interesting aspect of the metalworking industry is that for a given application there is often more than one way to process the workpiece.

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Turning Machines

Machine Improvements Save On Lathes For Oilfield Manufacturer

Some shops would measure a productivity improvement in terms of the extra capacity freed up on a given machine tool. Texas Arai measures its productivity gains in terms of the number of machines it no longer needs.

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Turning Machines

Turning Turned On End

Inverted-spindle vertical turning machines take on horizontal chuckers for turning cell applications.

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Basics

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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Turning Machines

Machining The Majority Of Job Shop Parts

This builder has introduced a compact vertical machining center and a compact lathe, both with the same full CNC functionality as larger machines.

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Turning Machines

Better Parts, Better Process

For most of us, a hobby is what we do outside work. Not so for this New York shop. With the application of multi-process machine tools, a successful metalworking business has grown from a love of radio-controlled race cars.

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Turning Machines

Precision Machining Grows Larger

By adding new machines, this company earned new business they wouldn't even have considered in the past and allowed them to deliver large precision-machined parts to their customers much faster than ever before.

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A Shop's View Of Vertical Turning

Every metalworking application is different. The challenge for shops is matching the appropriate level of technology to the job at hand. Here's how one job shop uses its vertical turning machines to produce large, heavy and tough workpieces for gas turbine engine applications.

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