Partnering for Energy Savings
Machine builder develops energy-saving, quiet hydraulic unit for its own equipment; quickly realizes benefits as OEM stand-alone for other machine builders, with “digital factory”...
Turning Points
Industrial rotating machinery relies upon rolling bearings to reduce friction, power consumption, and heat generation, while simultaneously supporting increasingly heavier applied loads at higher...
Formula for Small Volume Finishing:
Thielenhaus Microfinish Corporation designs and manufacturers finishing machines used by leading manufacturers worldwide to finish automotive components, refrigerator pumps, optical sensors, gas furnaces, and...
Maintaining Control Of Gearmaking
Maintaining Control Of Gear making
Using CNC technology on advanced machine tools helps the company sell its products worldwide.
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Holding to Tight Tolerances
Royal Welding & Fabricating (Fullerton, California) prides itself on two basic tenets. As General Manger Wallace Cook explains, “We specialize in stainless steel and...
Pivoting to Automation
As one drives down a city street in heavy traffic, manhole risers are not usually top of mind. “When people drive on the road,...
The Joy of Creating Shapes
In the course of the ongoing optimization process, every procedure in the BMW tool manufacturing plant in Munich is examined and improved regularly. For...
Fiber Laser: Game Changer
Can a machine tool acquisition change the way a 50-year-old shop approaches production? When it’s a fiber laser system that reduces processing time more...
Design Big
Bending Hardox® 450 is not for the ordinary shop press brake, and when an overhead crane is loading 7.5-ton plates for bending, you know...
More Agility with CAM Technology
While thermoforming expertise is the focal point of everything that Associated Thermoforming, Inc. (ATI) does, another technology, computer aided manufacturing (CAM) plays an important...
