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April, 2002

Features

Band or circular

Most shops make one classic mistake when it comes to selecting a saw.

Finishing first with advanced technology

Shop delivers custom car parts in 24 hours using a high-powered, manufacturing cell.

Scanning benefits, not costs

The decision to add a high-speed-scanning CMM should be based largely on what it does, not how much it costs.

Tech Trends

Caring for wounded robots

Welding technology is getting primetime exposure on Comedy Central's Battlebots show. The Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, has teamed with BattleBots to provide a robot "triage" area where...

Rail cutting lays tracks for innovative saw

A new saw cuts through tough materials such as titanium, Waspaloy, and Inconel faster than most conventional methods. The key to the saw's speed is its special cutting action: the machine feeds...

The art going into a part

German company SFM GmbH is showing how rapid prototyping technologies are finding niches in art and architecture. The company recently manufactured a mold of the Frauenkirche church in Dresden using...

Updated electrode-grinding machine

Operators of TEG-2 and TEG-3 tungsten-electrode-grinding machines from Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Ltd., Carms, UK, no longer need to worry about getting grinding dust in their faces. That's because...

Casebooks

CMM solves control and throughput problems for EDM jobshop

Quality control and throughput were proving a problem for Wire-Tech Inc., a 10-person EDM job-shop in Tempe, Ariz. The firm, which has 12 CNC machines, including eight wire EDMs, primarily serves the...

Neatness counts

DeWys Manufacturing Inc., a Marne, Mich.-based custom precision sheetmetal fabrication company had splatter problems when MIG-welding thin-gage hydraulic reservoirs. Removing the splatter added about...

Welders keep cheese maker competitive

Premier Technology of Pocatello, Idaho, is a mechanical-contracting firm specializing in food-processing customers. Since most food processors function in incredibly tight markets, Premier must...