Turning Machines

Turning Machines

Endworking Turret Cuts Cycle Time

Standard procedure for shaft work at job shop Grand Haven Steel Products was historically to soft turn, send the parts out for hardening, and then grind to the final tolerance.

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Turning Machines

CNC Multispindles: Are They For You

Multispindle machines are highly complex and highly productive machine tools. Justification for their use in shops is well known. Lately, however, successful integration of multispindle CNC is changing the justification equation for shops currently using CNC single spindles.

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Turning Machines

High Volume, High Flexibility

Does a highly automated process have to be highly customized? Here is a snapshot of one low-manpower process machining thousands of parts per week on standard CNC machines.

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Turning Machines

Teach-In CNC Lathes Improve Shop Productivity

Because of the critical nature of the parts this shop's customers demand, speed and accuracy are major factors when considering a profitable way to machine them. Read how this CNC lathe meets both demands.

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Consider Closing The Loop

Looking for a way to reduce process variability, speed setup, simplify your operation? Automatic measurement and machine compensation (Closed Loop Machining) may be something to consider. Here's a shop where it's making a difference.

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Holemaking

Job Shop Cuts Processing Time 60 Percent

  Innovative Manufacturing used to spend ten minutes per part machining cast iron differential housings for golf carts, but now total machining time is down to three minutes, 45 seconds. According to Innovative owner and president Rob Sander, the productivity leap came when the company consolidated turning, milling, drilling and reaming into a single machine tool.

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Turning Machines

Read Your Chips: Understanding Tool Selection for Unattended Turning

Are you sure you have the best insert for that turning operation? Check the chips, especially if you are running unattended. Chip characteristics can tell you a lot.

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Turning Machines

Making CNC Turning Easier

For those familiar only with manual lathes, making the jump to CNC can be a scary proposition. But take heart, because more and more control builders are focusing on providing CNCs with operational and programming capabilities that even the complete novice can grasp.

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Minimizing Parts And Designing Components Solves Several Needs

Milltronics Manufacturing Company, a CNC (computerized numerical controls) machine tool builder located in Waconia, Minnesota, is a major manufacturer and marketer of high quality, cost effective machining centers, toolroom and bridge mills and toolroom lathes sold both in the United States and abroad.

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Let There Be Lights

Austin, Texas is home to High End Systems, Inc. They design, manufacture and distribute lighting systems used worldwide in the entertainment industry and for architectural applications.

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