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Cutting Tools—There’s a Site for That

Last week, we had an office visit from Bjorn Roodzant, director of communications for Sandvik Coromant. One of the reasons for his stopping by was to let us know about a new website the company has set up to help shops get answers to cutting tool questions. I took a look at it, and there is some very good technical information on the site. It’s called MyYellowCoat.com.
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Reducing Cycle Times with Vertical Turning

I recently attended Emag USA’s Technology Day at the company’s Farmington Hills, Mich., facility. At the event I got a first-hand look at the company’s newest technology—the 250 platform of vertical turning machines.

Emag proudly lays claim to having developed the first vertical turning lathe (VTL) to incorporate a pick-up work spindle that travels the main axes while the tooling systems remain stationary. This innovation allows the spindle to perform double duty—as a load/unload robot and as the machine’s main turning spindle.
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‘Ferris Wheel’ Machining

Trunnion machining is a type of rotary transfer machining whose plane of motion resembles that of a Ferris wheel. In a trunnion machine tool, the trunnion is the horizontal shaft around which the workholding table, in a vertical plane, indexes parts from one machining station to the next.

Now that I’ve defined a trunnion machine, you may be asking yourself why this machine is useful compared with dial-type rotary transfer machines. Good question.

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