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Seco Tools Makes Key Organizational Changes
Seco Tools has appointed a new product marketing manager and promoted several others.
New Inserts Boost Productivity in a Wide Range of Tough Turning Applications
Walter‘s new geometries bring production efficiencies for turning high temperature alloys, titanium machining and tough roughing jobs.
When Good Gets Better
To improve the machining of one of their key products, this leading German metalworking firm turned to a solid carbide modular milling system that yielded big gains in accuracy and productivity.
When Good Gets Better: Cutting Tools Industry Snapshot
In their search to reduce production cycle times, lower tooling costs and achieve higher precision machining of new materials, shops are demanding new cutting tool solutions that meet higher machining parameters, more process complexity, exotic alloys and a variety of other challenges. Here are some of the newest cutting tools that meet these needs.
You’re Buying That New Lathe . . . Some Tooling Tips
For those shops that are just getting started with live tools, guest columnist Preben Hansen of Heimatec shares this short primer on tooling that will assist you in equipping your next machines.
2014 Tooling & Workholding Outlook: Race to the Future
Once seemingly insignificant peripherals are becoming the important difference in competing on a large scale as smart hybrid machines marry technologies once found on very different types of tools. Milton Guerry of Schunk examines how this race to the future stimulates concentration on machine accessories to match the machine technology and create a wide range of ‘add on investments’ from automation, to advanced tooling to quick change workholding.
2014 Tooling & Workholding Outlook: Reduced Process Variability
Jack Burley of BIG Kaiser explains why tooling strategies should focus on ways to reduce downtime during production due to process variables, such as time to compensate for insert wear on a boring bar or changing a perishable tool such as a drill. Offline tool presetting and zero point clamping systems are a natural part of the methodoogy for keeping spindles rotating and machine tables moving as much as possible.
2014 Tooling & Workholding Outlook: Fit for Purpose Innovation
To remain relevant in an increasingly competitive marketplace, Chris Weiler of Weiler Corporation manufacturers and their suppliers must be more agile in their customer implementation to ensure not only the delivery of the right products and solutions at the right time, but also the technical expertise and application knowledge to choose and apply those solutions quickly and collaboratively.
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