FEATURES

Bars Don't Just Feed Into Lathes

A new concept of a VMC with a bar feeder. The idea is that you can machine a five-sided component from bar stock in "one hit" much easier than loading individual billets to a chuck on an NC rotary table.

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Breaking Down, Cleaning Up

Bioremediation is a process we live with every day. More specifically, bioremediation is a natural process in which certain strains of microbes have been identified for their ability to break down or digest contaminants that we do not want in our environment, such as oil, petrochemicals and other compounds.

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Courses Teach Solution For Swiss Machining

Close confines found in Swiss-type machines make tool changes time consuming. A new quick-change system is helping reduce this problem.

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Evolving From Conventional CNC To Advanced Swiss Technology

In 1999, this company and its management team started comparison shopping and decided to buy a this single spindle, Swiss-style CNC sliding headstock machine from their distributor. Now, the company says it can attract different types of work, especially high-precision jobs, because of the technology and versatility of this machine.

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Getting The Most From A CNC Swiss-Type

It didn't take long for this shop to realize how important an efficient programming scheme was in the pursuit of achieving the potential productivity enhancements its new Swiss machines offered. The software they selected is a visual CAM system developed specifically around the needs of multi-axis and Swiss-type lathes.

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Marketing Committee Releases Revised Buyer's Guide

The Precision Machined Products Association's marketing committee recently revised its Buyer's Guide, which has been fully updated to include the latest information on the purchasing of precision machined products. The committee released this document via the PMPA Web site, and it is available to purchasers of precision machined products worldwide.

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Machines

Moving Up To CNC Swiss Screw Machines

Three new CNC Swiss machines in 18 months have provided real growth for this Illinois shop.

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PMPA Launches Online HR Management System

The PMPA's newest human resource information and management tool—the PMPA Human Resource Management System (HRMS)—was officially launched during the first week of December 2001.

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Thread Whirling--One Of The Oldest New Products In Town

What's new is whirling's recent and growing acceptance in the United States. It has become widely used in the manufacturing of 'large' parts, such as steering gears, worm gears, acme threads, ballscrews and other threaded parts.

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