topics toolholders 
Modern Machine Shop
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Setting up a new milling operation has many considerations: tooling, toolholding and workholding selections; workpiece source selection (additive preform, casting, forging or wrought stock); tool path generation; tool life for hard-to-machine materials; and, of course, vibrations. Until then, let’s cut metal!
Modern Machine Shop
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
.” FFG’s strategic partners in CNC controls, spindles, robotics, cutting tools, toolholders, rotary tables, probing, workholding, bar feeding, mist collection, high-pressure coolant and equipment finance were also displaying and presenting various products and machining solutions. LNS North America Inc. ,
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Modern Machine Shop
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
Within the Automation Cube is a cobot that exchanges worn cutting tools with new ones, first by grasping the toolholder and presenting the QR code located on its base to a digital scanner, then transmitting that data to the heat-shrink mechanism to inform it how much power and pressure is needed to lock the tool in place.
Modern Machine Shop
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Hermle’s Five-Axis Summit included presentations on various five-axis topics ranging from controls to part planning to automation. Proteum has already taken steps to prepare for a five-axis machine, including implementing Lang workholding and PowRgrip toolholders from Rego-Fix (two of the partners present at the event).
Modern Machine Shop
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A workholding hood, covering a Makro-Grip five-axis vise and workpiece blank, attaches to a toolholder in the tool magazine. Environmental and sustainability issues can be politically fraught topics in the U.S. The Haubex vise changing system from Lang uses a machine’s toolchanger to automate part loading and unloading.
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