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  • An Engineer's Guide to CNC Turning Centers

    The lathe is one of the oldest manufacturing technologies on Earth. The earliest versions date all the way back to the ancient Egyptians, who invented a two-person, bow-driven lathe around 1300 BCE. Yet despite this venerable history, turning technology has been far from static, as evidenced by the sophisticated CNC turning centers of today.
    Read on for an overview of the components, types, operations and applications of CNC turning centers.

  • Research Report Explores The Global Lathe Machines Market

    Lathe Machines Market Report, published by Allied Market Research, forecasts that the global lathe machines market size was estimated to be $9,925 million in 2015, and is expected to reach $12,012 million by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 2.6%. Learn details of the Opportunity, Analysis and Forecasts to 2022.

  • 5-Axis Milling Machine

    Shops all over the country are investing in 5-axis to increase profit margins on parts they previously were producing on 3-axis machines.

  • Geometry Adds Volume to Thread Mill Work-Select the right options for a solid-carbide thread mill application

    Choosing the most productive solid-carbide thread mill with the most efficient geometry can be a complex process that requires balancing tooling flexibility with productivity.

  • Extended-Flute Cutters Extend Milling Efficiency

    Indexable extended-flute (sometimes referred to as long-edge, porcupine, and even porky) cutters are universally regarded as the ideal tools for high-performance rough milling, when a machining allowance per pass is significant.

  • Maximize Your Metal Removal Rates

    The milling of aluminum parts for the aerospace industry is a machining process that requires the removal of large volumes of material by rough milling. As a result, semifinishing and finishing operations for these parts are characterized by the creation of narrow walls and thin bases that lead to limited workpiece rigidity.

  • Thread Milling Offers Peace of Mind When Threading Difficult Materials

    Thread milling produces threads with a ramping movement of a circulating tool that moves around the inside radius of the hole. Depending on the material, the machine, and the application, it may be a little slower than tapping, but it can make difficult threading jobs easier.

  • Mill with Skill

    Since the second half of the 19th century, the process of removing stock from workpieces by the use of a rotating tool with cutting teeth, such as a milling cutter or a milling tool, has become firmly established as an invaluable part of manufacturing processes.

  • Wet or Dry?

    When milling, which is better: dry or wet machining?
    Throughout the world of contentious machining, the issue of whether to use coolant supply (wet) or no coolant supply (dry) is a common subject of discussion.
    To further complicate the decision, near-dry or minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) cutting techniques may represent a successful compromise and therefore provide an efficient and effective answer to the troublesome question.

  • Continuing technical progress in machine tool technology has resulted in thread milling becoming an increasingly popular process within the global metalworking manufacturing industry. Today’s CNC machine tools provide effective cutting by helical interpolation, and it is this advantageous feature that supports the growing trend of thread generation using a milling process.

  • The lathe is one of the oldest manufacturing technologies on Earth. The earliest versions date all the way back to the ancient Egyptians, who invented a two-person, bow-driven lathe around 1300 BCE. Yet despite this venerable history, turning technology has been far from static, as evidenced by the sophisticated CNC turning centers of today

  • Improving Hole Drilling

    Hole drilling plays a critical role in automotive manufacturing. Hundreds of holes must be drilled for each vehicle that’s manufactured, including those in transmission shafts, engine blocks, air bag propellant chambers, camshafts, and other internal engine parts. In any automotive vehicle part production line, conveyor belts are running nonstop and efficient tools are a key aspect of profitability.

  • Lathe Machines Market Demand Is Increasing Briskly in Recent Years

    Lathe is a tool that rotates any workpiece on its axis in order to carry out numerous operations such as cutting, deformation or drilling, knurling and so on with tools applied on that workpiece to create a symmetrical object about an axis of rotation.

  • Part Ways with Grooving and Parting Problems

    Tooling that forms chips that are easily removed from the workpiece and flexible, modular coolant delivery systems help manufacturers get the most productivity during their parting and grooving processes.

  • 5 Reasons a 5-Axis CNC Machine is Actually Good for Your Shop

    The 5-axis CNC machine tool is a mainstay on many manufacturing plants and shop floors. While these systems once were reserved for undertaking complicated and specialized applications, large and small manufacturers now realize the value in using a 5-axis machine for every project. Many of them have been able to minimize lead times, bolster efficiency, and improve profitability as a result.

  • Least Dense 3D-Printed Graphene Structure Enabled by New Technique

    At one-atom thick, graphene is the lightest and strongest material in the world. Harnessing its power, however, has not been easy as it’s not a simple process to manipulate the world’s toughest material. Additive manufacturing (AM) may hold the answer.

  • Integrating CNC Machines and Automation for Smarter Manufacturing

    The CNC market is on the rise, and combining it with automation capabilities will prove invaluable to manufacturing operators.

  • Considerations for a New CNC Machine

    When you evaluate CNC machine tools to determine which would best suit your needs, there are surely countless factors that will affect your buying decision. Rapid rates, axis travels, spindle horsepower and cutting tool capacity are but a few of the many criteria that will help you determine whether a given machine will do what you need it to do—based on the price you are willing to pay.

  • Is Inverted Vertical Turning Right for You?

    Every machinist learned their craft on a horizontal lathe and if you walk into any tool room or machine shop in the world, the odds are good that you’ll find at least one lathe in use. Of course, turning doesn’t have to be done horizontally. Vertical lathes flip turning on its end, spinning parts like a top rather than a car tire. Inverted vertical lathes go one step further and turn vertical turning on its head.

    Could inverted vertical turning enhance your operation?

  • 5 Reasons a 5-Axis CNC Machine is Actually Good for Your Shop

    Savings in set-up and production times and cost, will speed the return on investment 5-axis or 3+2 machining Molding metrics CAD, CAM continuity
    Megan Ray Nichols | Twitter @nicholsrmegan | May 30,

  • The Central Government calls for the revitalization of the real economy in 2017, explicitly requiring enterprises to remain committed to prioritizing quality improvement and core competitiveness while pursuing innovation driven development, expanding the supply of high quality products and services.

  • Everything that is run by an operator for running the conventional CNC Plasma cutting machine tools is run by the usage of CNC controls. Once the machine is set up for running, running the machine is quite a simple work. In fact, the operator has to perform little less work as the device is automated. The operators are required to do other things with these CNC operations like making adjustments, measuring metal sheets etc.

  • LASER CNC MACHINES: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU NEED ONE!

    There’s a reason the expression “laser-like” has come to mean anything intense or precise, whether it’s a light or a way of thinking. Lasers are simply straight beams of light, the perfect living example of precision. One laser cutter’s beam can even outperform a quality CNC router when it comes to ultra-fine details.

  • What is CNC?

    Q: What is CNC?
    A: Computer Numeric Control, also known as CNC is a way to automate machine tools with highly-specific commands programmed into the machine itself. This is in contrast to manual control accomplished with levers, hand wheels or mechanical automation limited only to cams. A majority of numerical control is accomplished by a computer, which produces the acronym CNC.

  • CNC’s changing role in aerospace factory automation

    In automated aerospace assembly, computer numerical controls (CNCs) are better able to address complex interpolated motion than programmable logic controllers (PLCs). CNC technologies are finding increased application in complex airframe alignment tooling, robot control, additive machining, fiber placement and tape laying, and 5-axis machining.

  • What is Inverted Vertical Turning?

    Every machinist learned their craft on a horizontal lathe and if you walk into any tool room or machine shop in the world, the odds are good that you’ll find at least one lathe in use. Of course, turning doesn’t have to be done horizontally. Vertical lathes flip turning on its end, spinning parts like a top rather than a car tire. Inverted vertical lathes go one step further and turn vertical turning on its head.