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Grob Universal Machining Center Provides Highly Flexible Machining
PMTS 2025: The G550T five-axis mill-turn universal machining center includes a large swivel range in the axes and the horizontal spindle position.
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Studer Universal Cylindrical Grinding Machine Streamlines Performance
Studer’s FavoritCNC universal cylindrical grinding machine has been further developed to feature modern grinding technology with high-precision, simple operation at a cost-effective price point.
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Tsugami Lathe Enables High-Accuracy, Multifunction Machining
PMTS 2025: The SS20MH-III-5AX multifunction sliding headstock lathe can make complex-shaped workpieces with 3D curved surfaces utilizing the five-axis simultaneous control and Capto C3, 30-position tool magazine, all from bar stock or blanks.
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United Grinding Equipment Provides Precise Grinding Performance
PMTS 2025: United Grinding showcases its Studer FavoritCNC cylindrical grinding machine and the Walter Helitronic Mini Plus tool grinding machine.
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Gosiger Lathe Optimized for Intricate Parts Production
PMTS 2025: The NN-25UB8K is designed to reduce vibration and thermal displacement, providing consistent, accurate performance even during high-speed operations.
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Star CNC Swiss-Type Lathe Features Twin-Thread Whirling Unit
PMTS 2025: The SD-26 Type S employs a gate-shaped gang-style tool post including two B-axis stations, which are capable of programmable simultaneous five-axis control.
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Building Machines and Apprenticeships In-House: 5-Axis Live
Universal machines were the main draw of Grob’s 5-Axis Live — though the company’s apprenticeship and support proved equally impressive.
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Swiss-Type Control Uses CNC Data to Improve Efficiency
Advanced controls for Swiss-type CNC lathes uses machine data to prevent tool collisions, saving setup time and scrap costs.
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Modern Bar Feeds Bring New Life to Automatic Swiss Lathes
Cam-actuated Swiss lathes are still the fastest way to process many parts. By adding modern bar feeders, this shop has dramatically improved their utilization with the ability to work unattended, even in a lights-out environment.
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Digital Demo: People and History Drive Solutions
Bourn & Koch has long provided unique manufacturing solutions. However, the people who work at Bourn & Koch enable the company to deliver value to each partner they work with. From service to assembly to engineering, each step builds on the solution—helping you solve your most challenging manufacturing problems. (Sponsored)
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How to Reduce Cycle Times by 70% and More on Your Existing CNCs and Dramatically Improve Tool Life Too
By employing advanced high efficiency milling techniques for the entire machining routine, SolidCAM’s iMachining technology can drastically reduce cycle times while vastly improving tool life compared to traditional milling.
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Building an Automation Solution From the Ground Up
IMTS 2022 provides visitors the opportunity to meet with product experts to design automation solutions from scratch.
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Custom Motorcycle Parts Made Here: Video Tour of a Family-Owned CNC Machine Shop
Lee Wimmer invited us to tour his second-generation family-owned machine shop in Perkasie, PA. This video explores the production processes behind precision-machined parts for both Wimmer Custom Cycle and LS Wimmer Machine Co., and shows how ingenuity and determination are still at the heart of American manufacturing. Today, both companies are now managed by Wimmer’s three sons.
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Quick-Change Tool Heads Reduce Setup on Swiss-Type Turning Centers
This new quick-change tooling system enables shops to get more production from their Swiss turning centers through reduced tool setup time and matches the performance of a solid tool.
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3 Tips to Accelerate Production on Swiss Lathes with Micro Tools
Low RPM lathes can cause tool breakage and prevent you from achieving proper SFM, but live tooling can provide an economical solution for these problems that can accelerate production.
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The Right (Machine) Tool for the Right Job
This high-production shop uses both mechanical and CNC Swiss machines to make parts, but which machine is right for which job?
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High-Production Multitasking Becoming More Flexible
Platforms such as multi-spindles and rotary transfer machines remain well-suited for high-volume production but are now more accommodating to smaller batch sizes.
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Sometimes the Trickiest Part of CNC Machining Is Holding the Part
Finding a way to fixture contoured marine propellors proved to be this shop’s biggest challenge in developing an effective automated machining cell.
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Where Micro-Laser Machining Is the Focus
A company that was once a consulting firm has become a successful micro-laser machine shop producing complex parts and features that most traditional CNC shops cannot machine.
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What is Laser Cleaning? How Does it Work? EMAG Experts Explain
Lasers provide the flexibility to clean some areas of a CNC-machined workpiece while leaving others untouched.
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Waterjet Cutting a Titanium Golf Club
Here is a different way to think about the slice in your golf game. This footage comes from a Web site exploring the lighter side of waterjet machining.
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SpindleSHOT Offers Improved Chip Control and Less Maintenance
High-pressure coolant system is customizable to meet customer needs.
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Additive/Subtractive Hybrid CNC Machine Tools Continue to Make Gains (Includes Video)
The hybrid machine tool is an idea that continues to advance. Two important developments of recent years expand the possibilities for this platform.
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Lean Approach to Automated Machine Tending Delivers Quicker Paths to Success
Almost any shop can automate at least some of its production, even in low-volume, high-mix applications. The key to getting started is finding the simplest solutions that fit your requirements. It helps to work with an automation partner that understands your needs.
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High RPM Spindles: 5 Advantages for 5-axis CNC Machines
Explore five crucial ways equipping 5-axis CNC machines with Air Turbine Spindles® can achieve the speeds necessary to overcome manufacturing challenges.
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How to Mitigate Chatter to Boost Machining Rates
There are usually better solutions to chatter than just reducing the feed rate. Through vibration analysis, the chatter problem can be solved, enabling much higher metal removal rates, better quality and longer tool life.
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Grob Robot Cell Enables Long Periods of Unmanned Operation
The GRC-R12 robot cell features a pneumatic single- or double-gripper system, as well as a drawer feed system with six drawers.
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Voice Activated Machine Interface Comes to Machine Tools
Voice-enabled virtual assistants are coming to machine tools. Now available on Makino wire EDMs, the ATHENA interface promises to help manufacturers better utilize their equipment, aid less skilled workers and operate more machines with fewer people.
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Voice Control of Machine Tools has Arrived
Voice interface technology has come of age and is now found on a wide variety of products such as phones, tablets, PCs, TV remotes and many other devices. Why not on machine tools as well?
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Wire EDM with a Twist
Wire EDM units that swivel a horizontally guided electrode wire in a CNC-controlled E axis give this shop the workpiece clearance and flexibility to produce complex, high-precision PCD-tipped cutting tools.
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ANCA Grinding Machines Optimize Cutting Tool Performance
IMTS 2024: ANCA celebrates 50 years through the introduction of the MicroX Ultra grinding machine and AIMS Connect software, with live demonstrations.
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ANCA Offers Grinding Machine for Manufacturing Cutting Tools
The new MX7 Ultra includes developments in the linear and rotary axis, tuning parameters, as well as several system enhancements and major mechanical changes.
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New Grinding Machine Utilizes Unique Kinematics
A novel grinding machine uses three rotary tables stacked off-center to provide full control over the grinding wheel’s X and Z axis, as well as its angular position, creating an unusual solution to grinding.
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Lessons from a COVID-19 Shutdown and Reopening
Weldon Solutions, a manufacturer of CNC cylindrical grinders and robotic automation systems, had to close its doors for two months due to COVID-19. Now allowed to reopen, the company is taking stock of the lessons learned and a path forward during the pandemic.
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Swiss Grinding Technology in Motion
During a recent open house at Studer’s headquarters in Switzerland, the company highlighted advances in cylindrical grinding technology including automation solutions to enable long stretches of unattended operation.
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Keeping Blanchard Grinding Current
What do you do when a large portion of your business depends on machine tools that are more than 30 years old? You roll up your sleeves and perform some of the maintenance of your machines yourself, even if you are the company’s VP, because that maintenance is crucial to the shop’s success.
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JTEKT Five-Axis VMC Features Rigid Construction
PMTS 2025: WELE UG630 VMCs are designed to provide increased rigidity while sustaining higher load capacities.
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CNC Milling Tips & Tricks: 7 Articles For You to Mill Through
Dive into popular milling articles from Modern Machine Shop, Moldmaking Technology, and Production Machining to discover tips, tricks, and innovations that will make your chips fly—and your competition sweat.
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ANCA Tool Grinder Provides Consistent Cutting Tool Production
PMTS 2025: The MX7 Ultra tool grinder is designed to provide micron-level precision, reducing tool runout and optimizing tool life.
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M&M Quality Grinding Bars Support High-Volume Production
PMTS 2025: M&M Quality Grinding provides precision grinding services for a variety of materials, including titanium, stainless steel, alloys and plastics.
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Murata Machinery Turning Machine Features Twin Spindles
PMTS 2025: The MT1065EX twin-spindle CNC turning machine enables intricate operations such as pinch turning and simultaneous first- and second-operation machining.
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Mazak Turning Machine Enables High-Volume Production of Small Parts
PMTS 2025: The Syncrex 38/9 Swiss-type turning machine features a nine-axis configuration that includes five spindle motors.
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How to Build Out a Machine Shop for Submarine Parts
Five-axis large-format machining has given Granite State Manufacturing the ability to take on complex submarine parts — and has also worked as a recruiting tool for experienced machinists.
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When to Use 3+2 Versus Full Five-Axis for Finishing Operations
Consider the entire system — along with your goals — when deciding between a full five-axis or a 3+2 approach.
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OEMs Showcase Hybrid Manufacturing Applications
Mazak and Mastercam worked together to demonstrate the viability of hybrid additive/subtractive machining techniques at a recent event held in Florence, Kentucky.
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Supercritical Success for Medical Machining
High-pressure carbon dioxide coolant can dramatically improve the production rate of titanium parts while leaving no residue — an excellent fit for medical machining.
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How to Automate a Prototyping Shop
By focusing machine tending on pallets rather than individual parts, KAD Models has automated its high-mix, low-volume workload — and thrived as a result.
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Inside a CNC-Machined Gothic Monastery in Wyoming
An inside look into the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming, who are combining centuries-old Gothic architectural principles with modern CNC machining to build a monastery in the mountains of Wyoming.
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