TOOLING

Powill Manufacturing CNC Broach Tool
Cutting Tools

Broaching Tool Technology For Lathes Used to Slot Inconel Parts

This shop finds value in using an indexable-insert-style broaching tool to create blind-hole slots in heat-treated Inconel aerospace parts on a CNC lathe.

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Tool Path Improves Chip Management for Swiss-Type Lathes
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Tool Path Improves Chip Management for Swiss-Type Lathes

This simple change to a Swiss-type turning machine’s tool path can dramatically improve its ability to manage chips.

Monaghan Drills Optimize Chip Evacuation
Cutting Tools

Monaghan Drills Optimize Chip Evacuation

MK Tools Rambo Speed Drills are well suited for high-speed applications where efficiency is key, including connecting rods, injection pumps, wheel carriers, guide wheel shafts and more.

Sowa Shrink-Fit Machine Conserves Toolholder Life
Toolholders

Sowa Shrink-Fit Machine Conserves Toolholder Life

The ShrinkSmart shrink-fit machine’s Smart Coil assesses the distinct resistance of each toolholder to prevent excessive heating.

SMW Autoblok
Workholding

When to Use a Diaphragm Chuck

The accuracy and repeatability of these chucks make them well suited for a number of workholding applications, including turning and grinding.
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Derek Korn Editor-in-Chief, Production Machining magazine
Lyndex-Nikken Collets Enable Accurate Small-Diameter Cutting
Medical

Lyndex-Nikken Collets Enable Accurate Small-Diameter Cutting

The MMC Mini-Mini collet chuck is well suited for high-speed machining applications where clearance is needed, such as die mold, aerospace and medical parts.

Tungaloy CBN Inserts Boost Productivity in Hard Part Turning
Cutting Tools

Tungaloy CBN Inserts Boost Productivity in Hard Part Turning

The company has upgraded its MiniForceTurn by introducing 30 new DXGQ/U0703 inserts with brazed CBN tips and an HP chipbreaker.

Sumitomo Turning Grade Provides Long Tool Life in Cast Iron Applications
Cutting Tools

Sumitomo Turning Grade Provides Long Tool Life in Cast Iron Applications

The AC4125K turning grade is designed to lower overall tool usage and tool-change frequency while providing stable, long tool life in cast iron applications.

Seco Tools' Reamers Optimize Chip Evacuation

The Nanojet solid-carbide reamers are designed to stop chip jamming and enhance application stability.

Horn Toolholder Features Multiple Coolant Connections

The 224 grooving system features internal coolant supply that is fed directly to the insert via the clamping finger or directly to the flank face via a hole.

Emuge-Franken Threading Tools Mill Challenging Materials

The company has expanded its offerings of solid-carbide thread mills with new products for challenging applications.

Siemens Zel X
Kistler Group
Toolholders

Piezoelectric Sensor Technology: Moving Toward more Efficient Machine Monitoring

A new system that uses simple and compact force or strain sensors, which can be integrated inside toolholders or mounted on surfaces such as spindle housings, can facilitate CNC machine monitoring.  
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Derek Korn Editor-in-Chief, Production Machining magazine

VIDEOS

Workholding

Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind

New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.

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PH Horn
Medical

New Cutting Tool Technology Discovered at Paul Horn Open House

During a tour of the company’s campus in Tubingen, Germany, I and more than 3,000+ others were introduced to a number of new advances the company has made in cutting tool technology particularly as it relates to the medical industry.

Workholding

Video Tech Brief: Bar Feeder Technology Optimized for Swiss-Types

This bar feeder design is said to offer high guidance quality with minimum vibration and noise development for sliding-headstock machines.

Horn USA
Edge Technologies bar feeder
Automation & Robots

The Value of Auto Adjust Magazine Bar Feeders

This bar feeder is designed to offer the flexibility to enable CNC turning centers to perform short-run work that would otherwise require frequent setups over a range of barstock diameters.
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Dillon Reversible Hard Jaws Provide Secure Parts Gripping
Workholding

Dillon Reversible Hard Jaws Provide Secure Parts Gripping

The company’s reversible hard jaws are designed to decrease the time and cost of tool setups.

Sandvik Coromant Parting Tool Provides Improved Surface Quality
Cutting Tools

Sandvik Coromant Parting Tool Provides Improved Surface Quality

CoroCut QD Y-axis parting tools feature upgraded blades with no Y offset, providing easier programming and increased stroke.

Kyocera Turning Inserts Provide Fracture, Wear Resistance
Cutting Tools

Kyocera Turning Inserts Provide Fracture, Wear Resistance

The KBN010 high-speed CBN grade gives users more flexibility, range, performance and tool life when turning hardened materials.

Tungaloy Boring Bar System Features Vibration Dampening

The BoreMeister boring bar system features a variety of exchangeable heads and shanks for internal turning, profiling, threading and grooving.

SMW Mechatronic Grippers Automate Key Processes

The Motiact mechatronic gripper series is designed to perform precise, consistent, accurately monitored gripping operations in automated work cells.

Destaco Electric Power Clamps Enable Flexible Production

The 92W series electric power clamps feature integrated intelligence to reduce the need for additional components.

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