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CODI Manufacturing Introduces a New Machine Designed and Built in Four Weeks

Gary Mintchell

This mantra has stayed with me since the time a company I worked for built automated assembly machines. This story tells of how some new engineering tools from Festo and additional assembly services enabled a company called CODI Manufacturing to meet a customer’s immediate need. I said we’d try.”

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To Understand Machine Speeds, Look Past the Spec Sheet

Modern Machine Shop

Our research leaves us hanging, however, because all these machines seem to have the same max rapid traverse rate. Can you explain this and how we might differentiate the machines in front of us? Coming from the machine tool world, I always appreciated a prospective buyer who tried to “look past the spreadsheet.”

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Integrated stepper motors trim accurate metal forming costs

Control Engineering

company has supplied more than 50,000 metal fabrication machines. CI), a machine tool manufacturer. range from 40-ton-capacity machines for bending 20-gauge material to pairs of 2,000-ton press brakes working in tandem to bend 4-in. Computer cases and other metal electronics enclosures . of the R-axis stroke.

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Five-Axis CAM Strategies Cut Cycle Time for Two Shops

Modern Machine Shop

While some manufacturers feel an understandable degree of anxiety over being acquired by a larger company, success stories abound when larger machine shops with canny owners build on the strengths of their acquisitions. While it has three- and four-axis machines, it primarily works with five-axis machining centers.

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Reducing Prep Work With Precision Blanks

Modern Machine Shop

TCI produces machine-ready blanks to customer specifications within 0.002 inches all around and as close as 0.0005 inches dimensionally, if needed. The company uses a combination of both Blanchard and double-disk grinding, as well as duplex machining. Machine-Ready Blanks. To find out, we asked TCI Precision Metals.

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Team Unity – the Tightrope Walk for Corporate Culture

Modern Machine Shop

But taken at scale it is a phenomenon to behold, distinctive enough to leave an impression this past fall when I visited the Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF), one of the largest, busiest manufacturing technology shows in the world. The staff of Modern Machine Shop does not practice it. Not intentionally.

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10 Ways Additive Manufacturing and Machining Go Together and Affect One Another

Modern Machine Shop

A donut-shaped machine tool component called the AKZ FDS adapter illustrates the increasingly intricate links between additive manufacturing (AM) and CNC machining. A version of this article was our cover story in the December 2022 issue of Modern Machine Shop. In all, 46 sealing points were involved.