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December, 2003
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System takes grinding's temperature
A practical, portable hardware/software system monitors and records creepfeed grinding's "vital signs" to minimize thermal damage.
Tech Trends
Fasteners assemble and disassemble on command
A NEW LINE OF INTELLIGENT FASTENERS could soon change how products are designed, assembled, and serviced. The fasteners, from Textron Fastening Systems, Troy, Mich., are wired with embedded...
Italians turn innovation into productivity
ALTHOUGH GENERALLY SMALLER than their international competitors, Italian machine tool builders say their strengths are their flexibility and quick response to customer demands. Coupling these with...
Laser scanner + portable CMM = versatile inspection
A NEW INSPECTION SYSTEM COMBINES A PORTABLE CMM, A LASER scanner, and special software to measure a variety of parts, even large items like an automobile. The G-Scan also employs the first-ever...
Rollers are the driving force
UNLIKE TRADITIONAL BALLSCREWS, which use balls as the rolling element between the shaft and nut, the new Rollerscrew uses rollers. According to developer THK GmbH, Ratingen, Germany, this arrangement...
Casebooks
Attachment makes for a smooth-as-glass finish
LIBBEY GLASS IN TOLEDO, OHIO, PRODUCES UP TO 400 dozen glasses/hr and has to change glass-mold components every 8 hr of production to maintain product quality. One such component is the plunger, a...
Computers handle shop floor rough stuff
S&Z TOOL & DIE CO. INC. WAS LOSING PROFITS RELYING on outdated manual inventory systems and production lines. With its existing system, inputting and updating inventory took as long as 12 hr,...
Customers get lean
AS A RESULT OF RESOURCE-INVESTMENT MEETINGS WITH manufacturers throughout the U.S., Hurco found its customers want machines that deliver flawless precision and more-advanced standard features. These...
Laser scanning provides a galaxy worth of benefits
SWITCHING TO A 3D LASER-SCANNING SERVICE BUREAU FOR reverse engineering lets a blow-mold manufacturer help its automotive-aftermarket customers quickly get their products to market. Galaxy Tool's...
Software speeds model production down the runway
REPLACING ITS PREVIOUS MIXTURE OF software with Delcam's Power Solution lets Korea's Academy Plastic Model Co. reduce time spent developing new model kits. In one project, a kit for an F-18 fighter,...
VTCs do the work of four machines
THE PERFORMANCE OF 30 TO 50-YEAR-OLD BORING mills at the Number One Machine Shop at American Cast Iron Pipe Co. (ACIPCO) had degraded to the point that operational costs became prohibitive. So the...
Ways cover chip problem
ON ITS NEW POWERMILL FAMILY OF 5-AXIS, HIGH-SPEED vertical milling machines, Machines-Outils Henri Linè Inc. of Granby, Quebec, needed to protect sensitive linear-magnet and scale components, as...
