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THE CHALLENGE Located in Batesville, Miss., Batesville Tooling & Design manufactures complex injection molds for a variety of industries. For decades it had slowly been transitioning the operation from manual to commodity computer numerical controlled (CNC) machines, to improve...

Justifying a large investment can be difficult in today's world of throw-away electronics and disposable everything. People aren't used to products that are truly reliable, perform as they're designed to for years, and outlast even newer, more technologically advanced ones.   SUSTAINED...

EDM has been commercially available and a part of the manufacturing landscape for fifty years. Though considered a "Black Magic" technology for many years, it has come into its own and is now looked upon as an indispensable and highly reliable manufacturing process.   RAM...

a71nx Horizontal Machining Center The a71nx is a 500mm, 50-taper production horizontal machining center. The a71nx shares the key nx family machine technologies that take part productivity, accuracy and machine reliability to the next level.  Robust casting design and large roller-type linear guides...

Presenter: William Howard - VMC Product Line Manager 5-axis machining and automation are two of the driving trends in Vertical Machining Centers today. It's easy to understand why. Individually, each of these components lead to improvements in utilization, quality and productivity. What happens...

i-setup function was developed to assist the operator in workpiece set-up, alignment and coordinate system setting. In “normal operation”, this process has been (traditionally) manually achieved, is time consuming - reducing spindle utilization on expensive machine tools, requires a certain...

THE CHALLENGE Ansco Machine Company of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is a full-service contract machine shop that specializes in milling and turning. The company produces hydraulics, press rings, steel mill components and automation/motion control components. It works with high-volume production...

Presenters: Mike Boyd - Application Engineering Leader Darren Harville - Market Segment Manager A smart machine tool will determine when it’s safe to rotate the B-axis faster and save precious cycle time. In this session, Inertia Active Control (IAC) will be explained and demonstrated on a...