WORKHOLDING

Workholding

Collets Offer Quality Consistency

Quality consistency is a crucial characteristic to have for a shop to succeed. Producing such work for customers requires quality consistency inside the shop as well, including everything from shop management to the machines’ tooling and workholding.

Workholding

CNC Bar Pullers

CNC bar pullers can provide an inexpensive means of automating any CNC lathe.

Bar Feeders

Bar Feeders Provide New Paths to Productivity

 The lastest advances in bar feeding can help you prepare for the coming manufacturing resurgence.  

Bar Feeders

Bar Feeders with Synchronization

The Alpha ST 212 and ST 320 bar feeders provide reliability, stability and ease of operation, the manufacturer says. Model ST 320 feeds round barstock from 0. 12" to 0.

Workholding

Quick-Change Systems Save Time And Manpower

In a world where faster production rates mean more profits, shops strive to find the quickest way to meet deadlines without sacrificing quality. One way to do this is to convert to quick-change workholding and tooling systems.

Turning Machines

Commitment To Quality

Increased demands for quality have led tooling manufacturers in a new direction.

Workholding

Rotary Parts Accumulator

This rotary collection device allows safe parts accumulation from untended bar-fed lathes. It is programmed to index with each part produced, collecting parts without allowing them to collide with one another.

Single & Multi-Spindles

Lights-Out Benefits

Here are some pointers for working towards successful untended operations.

Machining Centers & Milling Machines

Pallet-Transfer Multi-Spindle Machining Center Defies Classification

Increasingly, new machine tools are being developed that defy existing classification code by virtue of their multi-tasking capabilities.

Workholding

How's Your Short Game?

Let's review the advantages of spindle-length bar feeders.