Wiltshire manufacturer brings metalcutting in-house with Hurco Loadpoint Micro-Machining Solutions, a manufacturer in Cricklade that more than 40 years ago invented the industry standard saw for dicing semiconductor wafers, has brought all of its metalcutting in-house following…
Ceramic end mills help optimise aerospace part machining With components made from nickel-based alloys becoming increasingly prevalent across the aerospace industry, the demand for optimised cutting tools continues to grow. In this article, Sandvik Coromant extols the virtues…
Stable milling option for tough alloys Stroud-based LB Bentley machines a range of difficult nickel alloys and stainless steels. When it needed to replace a pair of ageing vertical machining centres, it found Whitehouse Machine Tools…
Open house announced at Hermle headquarters in Germany More than 30 machining centres, mainly 5-axis models and some with various types of automation, will be on show at an open house to be held from 8-11 May 2019…
Forcing up feed rates High-speed and high feed milling is increasingly prominent with the ever-improving performance of the modern machine tool.
Versatile radial ISO indexable inserts Mapal has introduced a new milling programme with pressed, radial ISO indexable inserts that completes the company’s portfolio of standard milling tools.
Integration of grinding technology into mill-turn machining centers DMG Mori explains how to integrate grinding technology into mill-turn machining centers for complete machining capabilities.
On the ball milling Open Mind Technologies’ hyperMILL CAM software has been used to conduct the 5-axis programming of a replica basketball hoop.
New dimensions for milling Mastercam 2019 Mill, available in the UK from exclusive agent 4D Engineering, offers expanded machining flexibility and an increased emphasis on speed and automation.
CAM and the Cloud Autodesk has introduced a number of new features to PowerMill 2019, the CAM solution for high-speed and 5-axis machining, to enable manufacturers to harness the power of the Cloud, streamline…
Haas explains how to avoid chatter on a milling machine In this how-to video, Haas addresses an issue that every machinist has faced at some point: chatter. The video takes the complex topic and breaks it down into three categories…
Milling an aerospace bracket: 90 minute process reduced to 5 See a 90 minutes process reduced to less than 5 with a variety of Tungaloy milling products. The process involves milling an EN24T steel aerospace bracket with the help of…
High-speed and 5-axis milling at Matsuura UK Watch high-speed roughing and 5-axis machining in action. Here, Autodesk PowerMill and a Matsuura MX-520, 5-axis CNC combine to machine an aluminium wheel. Check out these slow motion shots.
Six of the best A new, tangential milling system launched by Horn at the recent AMB exhibition in Stuttgart is claimed to be the first ever side mill to deploy six effective cutting inserts.…
Milling with speed and efficiency Mastercam 2018 Mill, available in the UK from Gloucestershire-based 4D Engineering, offers expanded machining flexibility and an increased emphasis on speed and automation.
Parabolic Performance Cutting world première Perfect surfaces on complex geometries with reduced process times – the Hoffmann Group has developed a new generation of milling cutters for Parabolic Performance Cutting (PPC) that claim to do…
Productivity gains highlighted at WNT milling strategy days WNT hosted two days of milling strategy days in conjunction with Open Mind and XYZ Machine Tools, at which delegates were introduced to the benefits delivered by the combination of…
Impressive milling results in difficult conditions The solid carbide roughing end mill, Garant MasterSteel SlotMachine delivers impressive results at company MonTech, even under the most difficult conditions in steel grade 1.0503 / C45. Clamped in only…
Roll out the barrel Partnerships in manufacturing are nothing new, but in this latest venture between tooling specialist WNT and CAM software developer, Open Mind Technologies, the results are claimed to be nothing short…
Improved performance for cast iron The extensive Mapal portfolio of ISO tools for milling operations has now been extended with the addition of a new range of cast iron insert grades that cover the bandwidth…
Full blown milling advances Precision Technologies Group company, Holroyd Precision, has developed what is described as a revolutionary new CNC profile milling machine that, in addition to producing helical rotors, can be programmed to…
Tunnelling ahead with mill-turn control The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, opened in June 2016. The 57km (35 mile), twin-bore, high-speed link under the Swiss Alps between northern and southern…
Milling aluminium intelligently David Jones, Iscar UK’s sales manager examines the milling of aluminium and the innovative new cutting tools that have been introduced by the company to ensure more efficiency and productivity.
