Click this link to read the web version: Tooling & Production
May 06, 2015 - Volume 09 Issue 09
  Featured Sponsor
Image - Proven Results: Double Your Machine Capacity – Extend the Life of Your Cutting Tools Proven Results: Double Your Machine Capacity – Extend the Life of Your Cutting Tools
VoluMill™ - Proven Ultra High-Performance Toolpath Technology that provides a competitive advantage to manufacturing companies around the world.
  • Reduce rough milling cycle times up to 90%
  • Reduce cutting tool costs up to 75%
  • Generate low-force toolpaths for all materials and parts
  • Maximize material removal with high precision and reliability
  • Optimize machine performance while reducing cutting tool wear
  • 3-Axis and 5-Axis rough milling capabilities Click here for more info.

  Featured Articles
Image - 4 Ways You Can Use Metrics to Improve the Production Process and Increase On-Time Delivery 4 Ways You Can Use Metrics to Improve the Production Process and Increase On-Time Delivery
In the March 18th issue of Tooling & Production, we featured FACTIVITY's Manufacturing Execution Software (MES), which collects data from the factory floor and provides metrics needed to implement lean manufacturing practices. Now, here are 4 specific examples of how you can utilize these metrics to improve your Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
Full Article
Image - Michigan and Italian Manufacturers Partner to Build Collision-Free High-Speed Milling Machine from the Ground Up Michigan and Italian Manufacturers Partner to Build Collision-Free High-Speed Milling Machine from the Ground Up
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Paragon Die & Engineering is one of Italian-based milling machine builder Fidia's best customers. Already operating four Fidia milling machines, Paragon recently added the first Fidia high-speed gantry machine in North America.
Full Article

  Featured Sponsor
Image - EMAG NEWS: Modular Lathes & ECM Technology EMAG NEWS: Modular Lathes & ECM Technology

Modular Standard vertical lathes offer automated production with a minimum footprint for both chucked components and shafts. The new VM 9 spindle down machine is designed for the manufacture of individual parts and small production runs. Electro-Chemical Machining (ECM) removes material through electrolysis.


Read about these topics in the latest edition of EMAG NEWS.


  Industry News
Image - Smart Scanning Sensors Revolutionize Fully-Automated Dimensional Inspection for Automotive, Aerospace Measuring Applications Smart Scanning Sensors Revolutionize Fully-Automated Dimensional Inspection for Automotive, Aerospace Measuring Applications
Full News Item
  "No Strings Attached" 30-Day Free Trial Offer for Incremental and Absolute Encoders
Full News Item
Image - Latest Software Provides Most Advanced, All-Inclusive 3D Digital Design-to-Manufacturing Solutions Available Today Latest Software Provides Most Advanced, All-Inclusive 3D Digital Design-to-Manufacturing Solutions Available Today
Full News Item
  New Turnkey Plant Offers Engine Technology of the Future for Series Production of Cylinder Blocks
Full News Item

  Featured Sponsor
Image - View Your Factory Floor Performance Real-Time and Get OEE Dashboard Metrics with FACTIVITY… View Your Factory Floor Performance Real-Time and Get OEE Dashboard Metrics with FACTIVITY…


FACTIVITY: 1-800-369-6377


  Product Spotlight
Image - Line Vac Turns Pipe Into Conveyor to Move Scrap, Chips, and Small Parts Line Vac Turns Pipe Into Conveyor to Move Scrap, Chips, and Small Parts
View This Product
  Synchro Chucks Improve Tool Life in Rigid Tapping Applications
View This Product
Image - New Flexible Turning Machine Perfect for Low-Cost Production of Small Batches New Flexible Turning Machine Perfect for Low-Cost Production of Small Batches
View This Product
  Single Set-Up, 7-Axis Deep-Hole Drilling System 5 to 7 Times Faster Than Gundrilling Alone
View This Product

  Featured Sponsor
Image - Blow Past Your Competition with GibbsCAM 3-Axis Machining Blow Past Your Competition with GibbsCAM 3-Axis Machining

You invested in a CNC machine that gives you good 3-axis parts, but are you using it to its fullest potential? Find out what you've been missing! This FREE WEBINAR will show you time-saving techniques for roughing and finishing all your 3-axis parts, from the simplest to the most complex.


Click here for more information on the webinar.


  Product Spotlight Cont'd
Image - World's Most Flexible Table-Top Robot Designed to Work Alongside Humans World's Most Flexible Table-Top Robot Designed to Work Alongside Humans
View This Product
  Revolutionary Thickness Gauge Uses Lasers Instead of Radioactive Isotopes
View This Product
Image - Watch This New Horizontal CNC Lathe Cut a Brass Watch This New Horizontal CNC Lathe Cut a Brass "Bullet"
View This Product
  All-Electric CNC Wire Bending Machine Ideal for Simple to Very Complex Three-Dimensional Bending of Wire
View This Product

  Featured Sponsor
Image - Super Air Wipe Super Air Wipe

EXAIR's Super Air Wipe provides a 360 degree airstream that is ideal for blowoff, drying, cleaning and cooling of pipe, cable, extruded shapes, more. The split design offers easy clamping around the surface of the material moving through it, eliminating the need for threading.


Website offers detailed information.


Image - Career Builder<br>Hot Job Opportunities Career Builder
Hot Job Opportunities


Tooling & Production News has Partnered with CareerBuilder to Provide You with Links to the Latest Jobs in Metalworking.

Subscribe to T&P

Nelson Publishing, LLC | www.toolingandproduction.com
PO Box 424, Alto, MI 49302
Phone: 941-539-7579
webmaster@toolingandproduction.com