Milling, turning, grinding, drilling, boring — every process in every shop relies on exceptional material selection and consistently advanced designs for tool, holding devices, inserts, etc.
Today, manufacturers are practical, creative, open to opportunities, and ready to work with the technologies available now. This special report looks at advanced manufacturing technology as it is now, and where it is leading today's manufacturers.
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A new series of standards will measure energy supplied to CNC machine tools, and to define future machine design and performance. It may mean greener machine tools, as well as a new way to determine the value of performance in manufacturing.
Proper seating of toolholders would lower labor costs per part, allow for more competitive bidding on jobs, increase profit margins, and reduce the need to invest in new capital equipment to meet production demands.
A newly developed loading mechanism, with integrated robot and workpiece magazine, is the best new example of high-throughput automation in the machine shop.
Low-cost tool can be used effectively on hardened metals that interact in surface-to-surface friction with other metals or materials, like sliding guideways
