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In This Month's CTE

Highlights from the February issue of CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING Magazine:

Building for Micromachining
Machine tool builders define and design the high-accuracy machines for making microparts in this month's cover story. Atometric Inc., Biosite Inc., Kern Precision Inc. and SmalTec International contributed to this report.


Taming the 'Nastalloys'
Turning nickel-base superalloys requires close attention to cutting speed, feed rate, DOC, tool geometry and coolant application. Check out these and other tips for turning nickel-base superalloys. ATI Stellram, K.L. Steven Co. Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, Sandvik Coromant Co. and Walter USA Inc. contributed to this report.


Automated Savings
Automated dispensing and tracking of cutting tools can lead to several practical benefits, not the least of which is reduced tooling costs. DGI Supply, Morgan Bronze Products Inc. and Sealmaster (Emerson Power Transmission) contributed to this report.


Powder Power
Knowing the basics of tungsten carbide grades, including their characteristics as cutting tool materials, can help parts manufacturers choose the right tool for an application. ATI Alldyne—an Allegheny Technologies company—contributed this report.


Three Paths Forward
Steve Logee of Wilcox Associates Inc. provides a user's guide to selecting metrology software for on-machine probing from basic to advanced.


Working Software Hard
Take a closer look at CAM software features that can save parts manufacturers programming time. Coldwater Machine Co. LLC, DP Technology Corp., Gibbs and Associates, JD Machine, MPC Products Corp. and Planit/Pathtrace Ltd. contributed to this report.


 

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CTE Plus Interactive Reports
Validating Micro
In addition to the February cover story about micromachines, CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING readers can delve deeper into the challenge presented by metrology in the microworld with this special online report.

Taming the 'Nastalloys'
Here's a closer look at what to do when confronted with a common problem in aero-engine machining: interrupted turning. Just click here.

Off Shore Off-Course?
Check out the latest editors' blogs. CTE Contributing Editor Bill Kennedy wonders aloud whether is a looming backlash against offshoring.


Featured Products

Onsrud Cutter LP 

Endmills introduced for roughing and finishing titanium

Onsrud Cutter LP offers roughing and finishing endmills for deep-pocket milling of titanium. Designed for high metal-removal rates, the roughers feature variable flute indexing that reduces chatter, according to Onsrud. Longer tool lengths have a large core diameter that prevents chatter caused by deflection. The finishers have a shallow flute design combined with a large core diameter to prevent deflection when applying long length tools. An eccentric relief creates a dampening effect to further reduce chatter when milling floors and thin walls. The finishers' corner radii range from square to 0.250".

GF AgieCharmilles

Wire EDM to be introduced at WESTEC 2008

GF AgieCharmilles will debut its CUT 20 wire EDM at WESTEC 2008, which takes place March 31 to April 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The EDM's new and intuitive human-machine interface is built on a Windows XP platform and was designed with "non-EDM experts" in mind. The IPG-V generator's electronics make fast metal-removal rates possible, even with economical brass wire, according to the company. In addition, the low energy consumption and long working life of the wear parts reduce operating costs.

BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling

Inc.
 
Retention knob clamping spindles available on benchtop tool presetters

BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc. announces the availability of integrated mechanical retention knob clamping for CAT and BT 40- or 50-taper tooling for all models of Speroni STP-34 benchtop tool presetters. The system applies a tool clamping force of more than 150 lbs. to seat steep-taper tooling into the tool presetter spindle similar to the way it is drawn into a machine's tool spindle. The integral spindle design can be specified for tools with MAS, JIS and ASME retention knobs.


In The News

Demand for abrasives in U.S. to reach $5.3 billion in 2011

Demand for abrasives in the U.S. is forecast to increase 2.3% per annum through 2011 to $5.3 billion, with raw material demand reaching $1.4 billion. Gains will be aided by the upturn in production of electrical and electronic products and motor vehicles, which are expected to recover from the declines of the 2001-2006 period.

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Chrysler invests $27 million in Toledo machining plant

"Chrysler's investments in the Toledo area are rooted in our faith that
we can keep good-paying manufacturing jobs in America as long as
government, our unions and our companies all pull together for the common
good," said Tom LaSorda, Chrysler's vice chairman and president.

Read more...


New program set to boost number of skilled manufacturing workers

Dayton, Ohio, will be one of six regions participating in Precision JOBS for American Manufacturing, a new program of the National Tooling and Manufacturing Association, aimed at filling gaps in the skilled manufacturing workforce. 

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Opinion: The coming rust-belt recovery

The Canadian Globe and Mail suggests that manufacturing will play a surprise lead role in the turnaround of the resilient U.S. economy.

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U.S. companies, even small ones, flock to do business in China

Ohio-based American Micro Products, which produces precisely machined parts for original-equipment makers such as Caterpillar, Goodyear and Cummins Engine, is running a 60-employee plant in the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen and has relationships with six smaller machining companies in China and nearby countries.

Read more...




Coming Next Month

CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING March 2008 Cover StoryCUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING's March cover story gets down to the nuts and bolts of aerospace, specifically the metallurgy, product planning and documentation that goes into the production of fasteners. Plus, look for feature reports on through-tool MQL, the growing gap in the skilled manufacturing workforce, and a special focus on protecting the spindle.
 

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