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SITUATION Parkn Manufacturing (Litchfield, Ohio) knows machine fixture design and how it can be applied to boost quality and productivity. When the company opened its doors in 2005, it encountered fixturing limitations within its commodity vertical machining center, limiting overall...

THE CHALLENGE Custom Mold & Design (CMD) prides itself in overcoming the challenges created by complex geometric parts and achieving tight tolerances in medical injection-molding applications. The Minneapolis, Minn., company works primarily with medical-device manufacturers,...

THE CHALLENGE Woller Precision Machine in Pound, Wis., makes components for the medical, defense and consumer appliance industries. It also produces small-batch quantities of aluminum interior commercial aircraft components. The company wanted to expand its production capabilities...

THE CHALLENGE Accede Mold & Tool, a full-service shop under its third-generation of family ownership in Rochester, N.Y., has an extensive history in the production of complex, custom-designed plastic injection molds. In 2007, the company sought to stay ahead of the competition by investing in...

The V22 Graphite features a low-vibration, high-speed spindle and Makino’s proprietary SGI.5 control to deliver high-accuracy, high-speed machining. 

Makino experts respond to the following machine tool industry questions posed by American Machinist magazine   Makino experts respond to the following machine tool industry questions posed by American Machinist magazine: Readers have identified...

When machining titanium became all the rage back in the early 2000s, every shop wanted to claim they were doing it because it was a “big deal” at the time.  Fast-forward to today, and many of those same shops are still cutting titanium. However, they are using outdated equipment and...

Advanced technologies and increased capacity drive new levels of productivity for job-shop production environments. With an ideal blend of power, accuracy, speed and reliability, the PS65 and PS105 are redefining the standard for vertical machining center productivity within the aerospace, medical,...

The V56i vertical machining center provides high-speed machining with superb accuracy, efficient chip removal and ease of operation for long cycle time die/mold parts.

The a500iR five axis horizontal machining center is built specifically for high-efficiency machining of small to medium size, complex production components such as monolithic aerospace parts. The a500iR’s unique pallet changer configuration combines the chip-shedding capability of an upright workpiece...