Romi's VT Series Vertical CNC Lathes for Large Load Capacities
The company says the lathes’ robust mechanical structure provide exceptional rigidity, stability and versatility for machining workpieces found in heavy industry.
Emco’s Maxxturn 65 G2 Designed for Versatile Machining
A modular design provides a range of options for specific customer requirements.
Will Transmission Manufacturers Turn to Out-Of-Round Turning?
Out-of-round turning can be an efficient alternative to profile milling and grinding for polygon couplings that could replace traditional spline connections in automotive transmissions.
A Fitting Machining Process
Diversified Fittings has turned to twin-turret/twin-spindle equipment and machine monitoring to become more efficient producing hydraulic fittings and adaptors.
PMTS 2021 Product Preview: CNC Turning Centers and Swiss-Types
Learn about some of the new CNC turning centers and Swiss-Type lathes to be displayed at PMTS 2021.
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Laser Technology "Turns" into a Turning Tool
This new technology uses a laser to act as a cutting tool to "turn" parts from solid barstock. This high-speed precision turning machine is especially useful for micromachining, enabling high accuracy for small, complex parts that are often delicate and difficult to machine when implementing conventional turning processes.
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Romi C 420, C 510 CNC Lathes Well Suited for Gun Barrel Machining
Romi C 420, C 510 CNC Lathes are flexible and can be used for numerous speciality applications, including gun barrel manufacturing.
Optimize Minimum Quantity Lubrication Control Through a CNC Program
Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) on a lathe offers many benefits when implemented properly. MQL becomes more of an asset when lubricant and air delivery can be controlled from a CNC program.
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Mazak’s Virtual Campus Tour and New Equipment Now Available
Mazak Corp.’s new virtual campus tour teaches visitors about the company’s offerings and its manufacturing processes without leaving their desks. Also, get a sneak peek at the company’s latest machine tool offerings here.
Knuth’s Servoturn 410 NC Lathe has Programmable NC control
Conventional lathe offers extensive functions that take its operation to near CNC level.
Helpful, Free CAD Model for Those Who Machine DOM Tubing
This machine shop 3D prints a plastic plug that it inserts into the end of tubing to prevent chips and coolant from entering the lathe's bar feeder. It offers a free CAD model of it for other shops machining that material.
Automated Hard Turning, Grinding on One Platform
This inverted vertical turning machine can perform hard turning and grinding of chucked components such as gears while loading and unloading material and completed parts itself.
Romi's CNC Teach Lathes Can Operate Manually, Automatically
The lathe is as simple to use as a manual lathe, but has the added capability and productivity of a CNC lathe.
Ellison Technologies TT1800SY Machine Designed for Accuracy
PMTS 2019: Ellison Technologies’ Puma TT1800SY multi-turret horizontal turning center is designed for long-term accuracy.
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ABB Robots Help Shops Meet Production Challenges
The robots are ideal for both low- and high-volume production, tending vertical lathes, horizontal and vertical machining centers, five-axis machines, and grinders.
Programming Upside Down Lathes
This article shares how advances in programming and sensing technologies have made the use of the inverted vertical tuning center even more productive, efficient and reliable for untended or lightly tended operation.
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Programming Self-Loading Vertical Turning Centers
This article looks at some programming considerations for a self-loading VTC to help get the most efficient production from these machine tools.
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Puma 2600 SY II Y-Axis Horizontal Turning Center Built for Accuracy
Doosan Machine Tools welcomes the Puma 2600 SY II to its lineup of high productivity turning centers.
Puma V8300 Heavy-Duty Vertical Turning Center Features ATC
Doosan Machine Tools’s Puma V8300 15” class vertical turning center has an automatic toolchanger (ATC), a larger workzone, increased rigidity and enhanced user convenience and is available in right- or left-hand versions.
Moving Vertical Turning Up
There is always room for improvement, and transitioning from vertical turning to inverted vertical turning can be one way to improve your shop’s efficiency. The benefits of inverted vertical turning include a smaller machine footprint relative to horizontal turning centers of similar capacity; multitasking capabilities; and maybe the biggest benefit—chips fall away from the spindle into a conveyor in the machine base and out of the workzone.
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