Joe Nuzzi, director of product R&D at Allied Machine & Engineering Corp., Dover, Ohio, addressed "Multipurpose Holemaking Tools: Time & Money Savers" as part of the Fast Track Seminar series hosted at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS 2010.
Abhijit Sahasrabudhe, of DMG/Mori Seiki USA, addressed "Novel Manufacturing Strategies Enabled by New Machines and Cutting Tools" during the Fast Track Seminar series at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS 2010.
Bob Hellinger, national sales manager of standard products for Guhring Inc., Brookfield, Wis., addressed "Deep Hole High-Performance Solid Carbide Drilling" as part of the Fast Track Seminar series hosted at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS 2010.
Gerard Vacio and Hilary Schnirring, both of BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc., discuss possible strategies for reducing setup time in this Fast Track Seminar, which was presented and filmed at the Cutting Tool Engineering and MICROmanufacturing booth during IMTS 2010.
Ryan Michels, a sales manager with Tru Tech Systems, Mt. Clemens, Mich., discussed centerless grinding during his Fast Track Seminar hosted at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS 2010.
Mike Hill, vice president of sales and marketing for PRAB, Kalamazoo, Mich., discussed effective chip and fluid management issues during his Fast Track Seminar, hosted at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS.
Posted with CTE's October cover story are a few video reports—one on parts for legacy military aircraft (above), and two others on the KC-135 Stratotanker.
Watch the 13th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series as host Dr. Jeffrey Badger fields a question from a shop seeking a recommendation for a wheel that can eliminate burr.
Watch a video presentation from Seco Tools LLC about the tools and techniques suggested for machining powdered metallurgy. The company reports that inserts with Seco Tool’s Duratomic CVD aluminum-oxide coating can work well for P/M components. The Duratomic technology promotes growth of coating crystals in certain crystallographic directions to improve coating properties.
Using the TriboMAM compact CNC lathe attachment, M4 Sciences President Jeffrey A. Bougher and Tsugami Rem SalesApplications Engineer Bob Budnovitch demonstrate the production of a stainless steel bone screw at the Tsugami booth during IMTS 2010.
Matt Tegelman, application manager and product manager with BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling, Hoffman Estates, Ill., provides an overview of the products featured at the company's IMTS 2010 booth.
Robert Auer, an engineer and key account manager with Zoller, took a few minutes during IMTS 2010 to walk through the company's tool life monitoring and management system.
Mike Hill, vice president of sales and marketing for PRAB, Kalamazoo, Mich., provides an overview of the briquetting operation featured at the PRAB booth during IMTS 2010.
Allied representatives Heather Kaiser, Jim Porter and Brad Gray offer a brief look at the company's newest product lines as well as a quick product demonstration at their IMTS 2010 booth.
Watch the 12th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series as host Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop decide if it's a bad idea to gauge whether it gets burn by looking for burn marks on the part.
A grinding shop trying to grind a 0.006" radius into a hardened steel part with a 60-grit, vitrified-bond, aluminum-oxide wheel was having trouble with burn and huge chatter. Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, explains how to handle the situation in the 11th episode of the video series.
Flowdrill Inc. provides a video demonstration of its thermal drilling process. The company produces tungsten-carbide bits and roll-form taps to thermal drill and then thread holes in malleable materials.
Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, looks at improving coolant velocity for shops running into loading problems with superabrasive wheels. Such wheels are more problematic than aluminum oxide wheels that wear away more readily, Badger reports in the 10th episode of the video series.
Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, tells shops not to be timid when sticking a wheel. By sticking aggressively, shops can do more parts between wheel sticks, the Grinding Doc suggests in the 9th episode of the video series.
Focus Variation, the technique behind Alicona's Infinite Focus 3D optical metrology system, has enabled EDM Department, Bartlett, Ill., to measure and see what it is making down to 1.7µm tolerances. Watch this brief report to see the system in action and learn about how EDM Department implemented the system.