Gemel Precision Tool Company, Inc. has maintained quality performance in the medical products packaging market for over 30 years. Its customers demand consistency and tight, precise tolerances of critical radii in the design and manufacturing of perforation and cutting dies for pharmaceutical blister...
The objective of the demonstration is to highlight a feature on the U53 that gives the operator the option to “burn†the slug left behind while the geometry is still being machined.
MCD1816 horizontal machining center supplies theheavy metal removal rates, exacting precision and excellent surface finishesrequired for forging dies, large molds and other heavy but high-precisionworkpieces.
Tucked away in Fowlerville, Michigan, is a world-class blueprint for anti-lock brake system (ABS) manufacturing. It is there that TRW manufactures and assembles millions of ABS systems each year for automotive manufacturers, including General Motors, Chrysler, and Isuzu.
This micro component was machined by using a combination of micro hole machining technologies of the EDFH1, fine hole sinker, and ultra fine wire technologies of the UPJ-2 horizontal wire EDM. The first operation of the EDFH1 machine, required the use of a 60 micron tungsten electrode, to produce (4)...
Machine uptime is not a luxury; it's a necessity. Parts suppliers can no longer afford to have equipment break down or fall out of specification at all, at any time, for any reason.
Roughing. Heat treating. Grinding. Electrode manufacturing.EDMing. Benchwork. Sound familiar? Each step in this traditionalapproach to forging die production adds time — and money — to theprocess. But it doesn't have to be that way.
A Makino machining center produced a complex component, similar to the one shown, for Boeing as a single, complete part, replacing the previous manufacture and assembly of 125 parts.
Matrix Tooling, Inc. and Matrix Plastic Products specialize in building difficult-to-produce precision molds for the most demanding plastics applications. Located in the Chicago suburb of Wood Dale, Illinois, the company prides itself on blending old- world craftsmanship with the industry's leading-edge...