Automotive
Adding Value, Reducing Cost with Inverted Vertical Turning Centers
Inverted vertical turning centers find a home in an automotive stamping house.
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American Honda—Exporting More Cars than Importing
We love foreign direct investment. We love the fact that Honda is paying the wages of about 13,700 employees here in Ohio.
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Tooling Up for Micromachining
Choosing the right tools and matching them to the correct operations and process techniques for micromachining applications is critical to success in this burgeoning market.
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Single Pass Honing System with Automatic Tool Wear Compensation
Single pass honing, also referred to as diamond bore sizing, is a good way to produce parts economically when the bore is small or has thin-walled members that need to be honed.
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Attaining Ten-Millionths Bore Accuracy
Conventional honing has been continuously improved and automated, now allowing boring accuracies to be measured in millionths.
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From Virtual To Reality
This article tells how a shop used infomation available on the Web to solve a tough production problem on its shop floor.
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A 'HOLE' New Ballgame With Multi-Spindle Honing Systems
Automating the honing process is key to high-volume precision bore production with sub-micron accuracy.
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Ensuring Zero-Defect Bores
Here’s how one shop makes certain that every bore meets specs for customers who believe one bad part in a million is one too many.
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Chip Control Solution Provides Increase In Tool Life
Replacing the traditional ISO-style inserts with a reaming system solved a chip buildup problem in bore finishing of injector bodies.
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For Plateau Honing, Consider Ball Style
The ball-style hone is a specialized abrasive tool that is instantly recognizable by its unique appearance. For engineers in the automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and machining industries, this application-engineered hone, characterized by the small, abrasive globules that are permanently mounted to flexible filaments, is a flexible, low-cost tool for sophisticated surfacing, deburring and edge blending.
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