VIDEO: Okuma Summer Showcase Event Highlights
By: Chris Felix - Production Machining
Here’s a video with highlights of Okuma America Corp.’s Summer Showcase event, which included educational presentations and cutting demos on more than 15 machine tools.
The Advantages of Hand Scraping
By: Chris Felix - Production Machining
On my recent trip to Taiwan, almost every one of the machine tool builders we visited made a point to demonstrate to us that they still highly value the art of hand scraping. Learn more about the benefits this process brings.
Video: Watch Flat Turning for Machining Polygons
By: Chris Koepfer - Production Machining
Machining flats in a single handling is shown on this video from Okuma. The workpiece and cutter are rotated synchronously with a defined rotation frequency ratio, depending on the number of lobes needed to be machined.
Robotic Cell Cuts Cycle Time, Improves Part Quality
By: Lori Beckman - Products Finishing
Sew-Eurodrive Inc. worked with Okuma America’s authorized systems dealer to design an automated cell that includes an automatic magazine bar feeder that loads 6-ft. lengths of barstock into the machine. The shop also switched to an Okuma twin spindle, twin turret turning center so all of the machining operations are completed in one setup.
Learning to Optimize Shopfloor Production
By: Chris Felix - Production Machining
Okuma America Corp.’s annual Technology Showcase, held this month in Charlotte, North Carolina, featured the theme “Get Connected. Put IIoT to Work for You.”
Okuma and Chip Ganassi Host High School Students
By: Chris Felix - Production Machining
Okuma and Chip Ganassi Racing gave high school students a behind–the-scenes tour of the race facility while discussing CNC machining technologies and careers.
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Reducing Production Times with Robotic Automation
By: Chris Felix - Production Machining
A complete overhaul of its processes using lean principles helped this shop improve production by almost 90 percent.
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Okuma Donates CNC Machines to College
By: Chris Felix - Production Machining
Okuma America Corporation recently donated an MC-V4020 CNC vertical machining center and an ES-L8II CNC lathe to the engineering technology programs at Central Piedmont Community College.
Energy-Efficient Machine Tool Technologies for Any Size Shop
Recognizing that advanced machine tool technology can be used as a highly effective energy-saving tactic, Okuma offers ECO Suite to reduce power consumption.
Keeping Energy Costs Down
By: Chris Koepfer - Production Machining
This white paper provides information on energy-efficient technologies.