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Illinois Toolmaker Invests In Hard Milling TechnologyWhen your clients include top-of-the-line consumer appliance companies, you have to make sure not to disappoint them and you have to provide them with the best tooling possible in the least amount of time.

In response to these dwindling lead times, Moldmakers evaluated its processes and realized an equipment upgrade would let them take on additional projects that had extremely short lead times. At the heart of the upgrade was a pair of Makino EDNC65 RAM EDM machines.

Many of our customers have molds that require very short lead-times—lead-times that many mold makers find unreasonable, said Tony Knapp, vice president of Creative Die Mold of Glendale Heights, Illinois. "Those companies know that they can come to us and get their molds in the time they need...

Deere & Company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of farm, construction, forestry, lawn and industrial equipment, is supporting its aggressive approach to the off-highway diesel engine market with advanced manufacturing technology.

A 1.0mmØ x 50mm electrode featuring a 0.014mmØ pure tungsten rod tip was mounted to the spindle collet holder of a Makino EDFH1 sinker EDM. A precision ground copper tungsten dressing block was mounted to the machine's table. The EDFH1's Auto Precision Dressing macro was used to dress electrode...

The whole industry seems to be discussing this topic. Here's what Modern Machine Shop has to say about additives solving EDM surface finish problems.

Lean manufacturing has been undergoing an evolution in North American manufacturing. It doesn't matter how your company defines lean. Lean is and always will be about eliminating waste. Many manufacturing companies today have come to realize that waste can be dealt with in more ways than just charts...

Form Grinding wanted a better way to create the carbide inserts it used for cold extrusion forming in steel dies. The grinding wheel process they used to dimensionalize the carbide was slow and inefficient, and working with carbide on a grinding wheel is an untidy process. Plus it was costly, as the...