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Critical Skills For Effectiveness In Today's New World--Part 2 of 4

The four trends that define the differences between yesterday's and today's way of maximizing  effectiveness include the following: 1) Solo to team performance; 2) Stand-alone company to link in supply chain; 3) From problem detection to process failure prevention; and 4) From managing data to empowering decision making. This month's article looks at the second of these trends.

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Economical Production With A CNC Sliding Headstock Automatic

Builders face constant pressure to deliver equipment that can reduce machining times and labor costs. An approach to help reduce cycle times is one-pass machining, which eliminates the time and expense of refixturing parts for secondary processing and eliminates inaccuracies that can occur when parts are refixtured.

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First-Hand Experience Adds To Builder's Success

Near the foothills of one of the greatest mountain ranges in the world lies a family-owned machine tool builder specializing in Swiss machines. The story may sound familiar, but there’s a twist, as KSI Swiss is nowhere near the Alps.

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Precision Machining Industry Transforms To Serve Population Dynamics

Demand for the medical implants in the United States is expected to grow by 11 percent annually through 2007. The market for knee and hip replacements alone in Europe is expected to grow from 1.4 billion U.S. dollars to more than 1.83 billion in 2010. At the heart of each of these procedures is a manufactured, precision-engineered implantable component, the ultimate application of machining technology to improving human quality of life.

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Tooling

Process-Oriented Measuring Technology For Turning Tools

Because tools create the geometric shape of a workpiece, the accuracy of this shape is dependent on the position of the cutting edge to the workpiece. Therefore, the position of the cutting edge should be identified and maintained as precisely as possible. One reliable method for achieving the accuracy needed is through the use of a laser system for tool setting.

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Technical Member Profile: Index Corporation

The Index Group, located in Esslingen, Germany, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of precision turning and multitask machine tools. Its products include single- and multi-spindle equipment, as well as sliding headstock machines.

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Machines

Tooling Up For Hard Turning

Hard turning isn’t hard to do. However, it does require an understanding of the process dynamics and a systematic approach to the tooling involved. This article looks at how proper preparation will deliver consistent, predictable hard-turning results.

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Turning Machines

Turning Centers Improve Efficiency For OEM

When Dairy Pipe Lines (United Kingdom), a hygienic valve manufacturer, wanted to incorporate additional CNC turning efficiency and capacity into its Saffron Walden (Essex, England) facility, it selected a trio of Kia turning centers from Hyundai-Kia Machine (East Rutherford, New Jersey).

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