How to Choose and Use Styli
The variety of probe applications on machine tools, CMMs, comparative gages and portable arms makes correct selection of styli usage essential for efficient, reliable and accurate measurement. Here are some key points that can be helpful in choosing the best measurement solution.
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Getting to Know Rotary Broaching
Discover ways to get the most from rotary broaching, including details regarding the materials best suited for broaching tools, the most effective speeds and feeds for specific tool shapes and sizes, and strategies for preparing the workpiece and applying the tool.
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Groove Milling Cuts Down Cycle Time for Inconel Part
When a shop tries to outsource a part, but no vendors want to take on the job, it’s time for that shop to figure out how to machine the job on its own.
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Grinding Advice for Safety
Here are some additional reasons why you should not need gloves when working on grinders and grinding machines.
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Kenneth Gronback Presents Business Session at PMPA Annual Meeting
Kenneth W. Gronbach, president of KGC Direct, LLC and author of the best-selling book, “The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm,” will present the business session of the 2014 PMPA Annual Meeting.
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When to Consider Customized Cutting Tools
What is the real cost of choosing standard or customized tooling if time is money and efficiency translates into profits? It’s a question many shops face regularly.
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Precision Workholding Offers Multiple Advantages
As American manufacturing continues to transition from the mass production of conventional parts to the manufacture of complex, high-value components in relatively small lot sizes, precision workholding has assumed increased importance
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Putting your Shop on a Diet: How to Become Lean
There are strategies involved in achieving lean for a shop, but like going on a diet, lean doesn’t happen overnight and it takes some work on your part to get your shop in shape.
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5 Process Security Tips for Parting Off
Here are five rules of thumb from Scott Lewis, a product and application specialist at Sandvik Coromant, to optimize the parting off process, and as a result, maximize tool and insert life.
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Choosing a Dust and Fume Collector
Creating an effective ventilation system requires consideration of a range of variables, from the type of dust and fumes produced to the air flow dynamics that carry the particulates and pollutants throughout the plant.
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Selecting a Cleaning System for Small Parts
A multitude of different systems and cleaning technologies are available for getting dirty parts clean. To budget funds appropriately for the right system, it is important to carefully evaluate all variables surrounding getting the parts clean and dry.
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The Basics of Rotary Broaching
This broaching process creates a non-round shape on the inside or outside of a part with a broach tool.
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Workholding Offers Many Approaches
Take a look at an assortment of applications and the approaches that can be taken to narrow the workholding options to what will fit best.
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Technology Advances Automation Trends
Shops of all sizes looking for better efficiency are realizing the benefits of a deeper investment into automation.
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8 Easy Tips for Spindle and Toolholder Hygiene
A minute chip floating in coolant swarf left to dry on a toolholder taper can eventually become a serious interference at the machine tool spindle-toolholder interface.
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Single-Cell Automation Simplifies Shop's Growing Production
Ask Michael Olano, president of Dynomach Inc., how to be a profitable high-volume production shop. His answer: self-contained, single-cell automation, or more specifically, twin-spindle machines outfitted with bar feeders and automatic parts catchers.
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Deal Differently with Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty
Let's take a look at the differences between certainty, risk and uncertainty, examples of each, and how we make decisions when faced with these situations.
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Leveraging Shop Management Software for Better ROI
Learning how to make the most of its management system can help a shop cut costs and run more efficiently.
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Business Development: How to Win Bigger Contracts
At the PMPA Management Update Conference, February 21-23, 2014, in Las Vegas, John Wirtz will present a business development session on winning larger contracts, or “whale hunting,” for precision machined parts manufacturers.
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Understanding the Precision of Success
Play out the managerial benefits when the work an individual is doing is building his/her confidence and engagement with
the company.
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