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Coolant Usage in Holemaking
Proper cooling techniques are important in all holemaking operations.
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High-feed Milling
Insert size and shape play an important role in high-feed milling.
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Sharpen Your Punch Tooling Maintenance Program
Obtaining longer-lasting punch tooling through proper maintenance techniques
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Turning Nickelbased Alloys
Reducing BUE and Notching in Superalloys
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Controlling Tool Inventories
Eliminating errors caused by incorrect tool selection
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Band Sawing With Interrupted Cuts
If not cared for, band saw blades can fail, especially in difficult cutting situations.
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Making Perfect Holes
The importance of controlling runout.
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Hard Turning
Tooling options for hard-part machining.
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25 Years of Technology
Top 10 technologies of the past 25 years.
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Decreasing Drilling Time
Increasing the tool penetration rate can have a dramatic impact on drilling time.
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Toolpath Generation
Milling paths can affect tooling costs, power consumption, waste.
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Using High-pressure Coolant
Proper application of high-pressure coolant has a positive effect on chip breaking and heat.
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Coatings Explained
Coated tooling can help shops save money in day-to-day operations.
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A Look at Milling
New milling tools and techniques can aid a shop's bottom line.
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Community Machining
Ontario job shop expands into new industries.
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An Overview of Precision-ground Tooling
An examination of the role precision-ground press brake tooling can play in a fabricator’s bending operation.
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Holemaking Using High-feed Milling
Dry cutting with an air blast through the spindle allows chips to be easily evacuated when using a high-feed cutter, such as the Tungaloy TXP (shown here)
Many shops today have discovered the benefits of high-feed milling, which uses...
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The Art of Milling
New tooling when combined with proper techniques can dramatically improve milling operations.
Removing material quickly is the key to most milling operations.
And most of the material removed is done so during the roughing process,...
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Shrink-fit Toolholding for the Medical Industry
Haimer USA's Power series, which includes shrink chucks and collet chucks, is suitable for medical equipment machining.
Tolerance requirements in the medical industry typically are much more precise than in general machining. This means...
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Moving Beyond Tribal Knowledge
Tribal knowledge is any unwritten information not commonly known by others within a company. This term is used most when referencing information others might need to know in order to produce quality products or services.
By nature,...
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Getting the Most From Your Punching Process
There is more to the punching process than simply the machine, the material, and the tool.
According to the experts, as products become more complex and lean practices become the norm, an examination of your part from the design...
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Tooling Organization Means Punching Optimization
Turret punch press uptime will increase if you know your process capability, manufacture products within that capability, and optimize the layout of your tooling. It also will increase if you optimize programming, design, and tooling. It also is...
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Milling Titanium
The aerospace marketplace of today is very demanding as manufacturers continue to look for ways to produce more fuel-efficient aircraft.
Strength-to-weight ratios are more important than ever in the race to create the next big...
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Pardon the Interruption
Part design, raw material, and the machine tool being used are all variables in the tooling selection process. And, as the machining process becomes more difficult because of the part features or the material being cut, novel tooling may...
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Interrupted Turning
Turning is a game of fundamentals more so than other machining operations such as milling, drilling, or grooving.
There is really nothing fancy about turning. It is about selecting the optimal insert for the application and applying...
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Distorting – The Facts
The fact that workholding distorts workpieces is a common challenge facing manufacturers. The forces applied while holding the part invariably alter its shape, and when it’s released from the holding device, it typically springs back to its...
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Turning Around Money-losing Jobs
Mecon can create press brake dies to a customer's specifications.
Difficult jobs can be a reminder why it’s good to keep up with the latest cutting tool advances. For Mecon Industries of Scarborough, Ont., new tooling was the...
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