Pending EPA regulations on metal cutting fluids have made dry machining a hot topic recently. And while the need for dry machining may be apparent, issues including the perceived inability to cut dry at higher speeds and the changeover costs involved result in dry machining being perceived as impractical...
New Heights in Aerospace Realized Through Advanced High-Speed Machining Process THIN WALL MACHINING New Heights in Aerospace Realized Through Advanced High-Speed Machining Process The manufacturing demands faced by the aerospace...
Thal Precision in Clark, New Jersey got its start in 1980 doing aluminum tooling and small tooling repair jobs. Fast forward four decades and this multi-generational, family-owned business has evolved with the times, becoming a recognized manufacturer of complex molds and high-precision tooling for some...
Located in the heart of Minnesota sport fishing territory, Lou-Rich Inc. has become an expert in producing various products and assemblies as a contract manufacturer for the medical, agricultural, industrial, and construction markets. A diverse operation, the company also has a side business that manufactures...
Boeing Phantom Works in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated to finding better, faster, and less expensive ways to design, develop, manufacture, test, operate, and support current and future systems. As part of this effort, Phantom Works has made industry breakthroughs in the areas of high-speed machining,...
The EDNC8 is the second machine in the EDNC-Series line-up. It provides larger X/Y/Z strokes and additional processing capacity over the EDNC6. The EDNC8 is packed with high-performance features for optimum productivity. The user-friendly Hyper-i control system intelligently streamlines operations...
SITUATION While scrap is typically considered an issue by all manufacturers, it is of particular concern to Covert Manufacturing (Galion, Ohio) and its large production parts. As a manufacturer for the agriculture and heavy-duty truck industries, Covert knows that one scrapped component...
THE CHALLENGE Summit Tooling in McHenry, Ill., has the capabilities to provide all of its part processing—from design to production—under one roof. The company is known for the prototype molds it creates for diverse businesses in the medical, packaging, electronics and...