The Challenge New Dimensions Precision Machining in Union, Ill., is accustomed to producing premium parts with its high-performance equipment. Lately, its customers continue to need parts in small batches with fast turnaround, while keeping pricing low. This manufacturer of fluid power equipment...
The F9 is designed to to attack both large production part applications as well as big die and mold components by provide stiffness and rigidity for chatter-free, heavy cutting, roughing and finishing on the same machine, agility for high-speed / hard-milling and accuracies for tight-tolerance blends...
The whole industry seems to be discussing this topic. Here's what Modern Machine Shop has to say about "Cycle Time Is In The Cut Now". High volume machining centers have become so efficient outside the cut that the widest margin for productivity gain is within it. CYCLE...
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 V22 Graphite features a low-vibration, high-speed spindle and Makino’s proprietary SGI.5 control to deliver high-accuracy, high-speed machining.
The Challenge With nearly 60 years of experience in the fineblanking market, Feintool is well known for fineblanked parts production, fineblanking presses, and technical expertise in supporting customers with the research and development and prototyping of fineblanking tools. Due to the intense...
The precision and surface finish quality of the UPV-3, for larger part details. The UPV-5 features an oil-based di-electric system that provides greater control over the machining discharge spark energy, and this enhanced control provides the ability to machine with lower power, enabling the UPV-5...
The EDGE2i machine brings an effective combination of high performance and versatility to Sinker EDM operations. The EDGE-Series machines are configured with many productive technologies to efficiently handle any task, and utilize the latest SuperSpark4 and IES (Intelligent Expert System) technologies.
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)...
THE CHALLENGE Innovative Mold of Washington, Mich., excels in producing complex mold making applications such as two-shot rotational molds. Most of the company’s projects are built for the automotive industry’s tier-one and tier-two original equipment manufacturers (OEMs),...