Innovative design combines the advantages of Makino’s industry leading machine performance with an advanced kinematic layout. Mason, Ohio – July 2019 – Prior to Makino’s introduction of the a500Z, if a customer wanted to combine the inherent processing efficiencies of...
Presenter Bill Howard - VMC Product Manager In today’s highly competitive machine tool marketplace it pays to do a little research before making a critical capital purchase, especially when considering vertical machining centers. Did you know that there are more vertical machining centers...
In the mid-1980s, Makino introduced the MC40, a horizontal machining center (HMC) that offered a glimpse of the high speed machining advancements. Makino then made a further leap forward in 1989 with the development of the A55, the first of its A-Series machine line that would drive the metalcutting...
In this Webinar, Makino will discuss the production applications of two types of non-contact gauging inside machining centers. The first type is tool changeable non-contact bore gauging for the measuring of machined parts. The second type is the laser system for tool monitoring.
Bill Howard, VMC product manager, discusses the latest advancements in high-performance machining, tooling, and techniques, coupled with the volumetric accuracies made possible through today's advanced machining centers, providing a different approach to mold burning.
Join us for an informative webinar Small structural titanium components are counted in hundreds on the frame of the aircrafts. The suppliers are asked to deliver faster and at lower price. How to be profitable in this market? Our expert, Andrea Biscardi, application engineer in Makino Europe will ...
Replace manual jig grinding, and lower your costs up to 50% with Makino's closed-loop tolerance control process. In this webinar, we explain how you can hard-mill and finish-grind in a single setup including in machine-probing inspection. Primary Topics covered: Closed-loop tolerance control Hard-milling Grinding...
Presenter: William Howard Jr - Product Line Manager Why is it that the number of Vertical Machining Centers sold each year is over 4 times the number of other milling products? Seasoned machinists and shop owners know that there are certain applications where a VMC is ideally suited to boost productivity...
Large production parts and large dies and molds present numerous challenges to machine effectively due to the size, weight and range of features found on big work pieces. These elements test a machine’s capacity, capability and utilization as well as impact productivity and costs. This webinar...
The Ideal Hard Milling Machine for Complex Applications The F5 Pro 6 vertical machining center is designed to provide stiffness and rigidity for chatter-free cutting, agility expected from a hard milling machine and accuracies for tight-tolerance blends and matches typical of complex, 3-D contoured...