Using Energy Efficiently Can Boost Profitability
By: Chris Koepfer - Production Machining
As energy costs increase, making efficient use of kilowatts is more important than ever.
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Switching to Swiss Without a Guide Bushing
By: Chris Felix - Production Machining
When the part doesn't require a guide bushing, being able to remove that housing provides increased flexibility and often even improves accuracy.
A New Breed Of Turn-Mill Center
By: Chris Koepfer - Production Machining
The turn-mill center continues to evolve its capabilities. This new machine from Index is an example.
High Production Turn-Mill Centers
The C100 series of production turn-mill centers are versatile, high production machines linked in real-time to the company’s Virtual Machine programming and simulation suite. Virtual Machine includes user software that is a mirror of the real machine configuration. The data allow users to program, set up and operate the “virtual machine” in exactly the same way as the real machine.
Investment Pays Off For Contract Shop
This shop added a CNC multi-spindle to its operation and reduced its cycle time and setup time.
Optics Maker Focuses On Flexible Production
By: Lori Beckman - Products Finishing
Leupold & Stevens has found the key to successful precision machining. It operates more than 30 Index machines, primarily multifunction turning machines used to produce the bodies and tubes for the rifle scopes from aircraft-quality aluminum.
A Talk With Index’s President
Recently, I was able to catch up with Olaf Tessarzyk, the busy president and CEO of Index Corporation, at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Noblesville, Indiana.
Taking Its Turn
By: Chris Koepfer - Production Machining
This family-owned job shop is more interested in what its capital investments can do than how much they cost. Keeping its demanding automotive customers happy means paying attention to the details and applying the right technology to the job.
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Consider A Programmable Guide Bushing
By: Chris Koepfer - Production Machining
An example of the "set it and forget it" guide bushing adjustment is a programmable guide bushing available on Traub’s TNL series by Index Corp. It offers the ability to program the CNC to provide a series of guide bushing pressures on the bar based on dynamic conditions.
Sticker Shock Relief For The CNC Multi-Spindle
By: Chris Felix - Production Machining
To bridge the gap between traditional multi-spindle technology and full CNC, Index Corporation (Noblesville, Indiana) has developed the MS22C, a six-spindle CNC multi for the medium-complex workpiece market, which has been dominated by the cam-controlled multi-spindle automatics and simple sliding and fixed headstock automatics.