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Makino's a81M horizontal machining center has been developed for the machining of tough and hard materials. It is ideally suited for large diameter boring and face milling on such challenging materials as stainless steel, titanium, titanium alloys, inconel, ductile iron, cast iron and CGI (compacted...

Makino's J66 machining center provides the advantages offered by flexible high-speed machining. Agility coupled with superb spindle acceleration and fast feedrates will have manufacturers producing more parts per hour than conventional transfer line equipment.   Makino’s...

A V22 high precision vertical machining center was chosen to machine the part from roughing to finishing. The machining process began with top face roughing of the part using a 15-mm Pokholm face mill at 7500RPM. The outside perimeter was then machined with a 1.3-mm ball-nosed endmill running at 30,000RPM....

THE CHALLENGE CS Tool Engineering of Cedar Springs, Mich., produces plastic injection and compression molds for the automotive industry. It also makes molds for a variety of consumer products. As business was ramping up for CS Tool, the company was in need of an equipment...

THE CHALLENGE Quincy Compressor in Bay Minette, Ala., makes rotary screw and piston air compressors, vacuum pumps and air treatment products. It manufactures these products totally in-house—making the parts, assembling the compressors and getting them out the door. Created...

In an effort to improve processes and drive out operational costs, the truck transmission plant of Eaton Corporation in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, needed some updated equipment. Transmission cases were being machined on 10 stand-alone CNC machines with each machine dedicated to one operation and...

Makino is demonstrating the latest in productivity and flexibility at IMTS 2000. Its A55E high-speed horizontal machining center is equipped with a Modular Machining Complex (MMC).   CELL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY MAKES PART CHANGEOVERS FAST AND SIMPLE Mason, OH - September...

  FOCUS ON MODERN LEAN MANUFACTURING METHODS DELIVERS RAPID RESPONSE SUCCESS Product lead-times in today’s automotive parts production supply chain are an ever-shrinking commodity. The OEMs continue to reduce the time it takes to launch new products into...

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. TRW...