Bardons & Oliver’s Big Bore subspindle machine is designed for challenging through-hole applications. The heavy-duty, column-style machine can process complex bar and tube components with virtually no limitations on diameter, weight or length, the company says. When the subspindle machine is co

Loading the player ... The bar feed is usually thought of as a device for machining many parts from a length of stock. The lathe cuts the bar into pieces (specifically, into workpieces) as the bar feed incrementally advances the stock into one machining cycle

On the production floor at Bradshaw Medical—a maker of surgical hand tools in Kenosha, Wisconsin—one of the most productive milling tools is not a mill at all. It’s a custom step drill. The drill doesn’t actually perform a milling pass, but it has been a powerful facilitator to the milling operat

“RPM” usually stands for rotations per minute, but at Wedge Manufacturing, it also means “removing the part from the machine.” This is one of the various potential sources of lost time that the Birmingham, Alabama job shop studies every day. Spacers as small as 0.063 inch in diameter and 0.003 inch

Ganesh says its KSL-7612T heavy-duty boxway CNC turning center with Fanuc control is suited for manufacturers looking to reduce cost. It features full bar, chuck and shaft machining capability; 3" bar capacity; a 10" chuck; a 15.75" turning diameter; and a 25.5" turning length.Th

Loading the player ... This video shows how an automated, twin-turret lathe from Fuji processes a shaft A four-axis, twin-turret lathe can produce twice the amount of chips while turning than a single-turret lathe. That’s because tools on the u

The Ecoca SJ-20 from Absolute Machine Tools is a high-precision CNC turning center designed for robust cutting performance and operational flexibility. The center is cast from Meehanite with a rigid, 45-degree slant-bed design. Precision linear ways provide stiffness and high rapid feed rates while

The VL-Y from Emag is fully equipped with a Y axis (50-mm travel); a chip conveyor; a machining area extraction unit; a fluid-cooling system for spindle motor and turret; and automation equipment for loading and unloading workpieces. The machine features a recirculating workpiece storage conveyor on

An increasing number of shop owners are looking to automation to reduce idle time and keep their machines making chips and making money. To meet demand, robotics, bar feeders, pallet changers and other such equipment continue to evolve to reach new levels of efficiency. But it doesn’t always take

The Johnford HT-30-2SD high precision, CNC turning center is built for industries that require the productivity of a two-spindle turning center. This 45-degree slant-bed machine features a 30-hp, double-wound main spindle that delivers high torque at low rpms. There is also a 15-hp, double-wound sub

The RS 51 MSY turning center with live tooling, C axis, Y axis and subspindle offers exceptional vibration control, thermal stability and accuracy, the company says. The turning center has a collet-ready spindle that uses a range of the company’s precision workholding devices and is designed to be h

The MultiSigma 8 × 24 produces complex parts in one setup. Eight independent spindles allow for high flexibility, while an integrated robot allows for the automatic unloading of parts into a pallet. The machine is supplied with the latest motorspindles, featuring synchronous motors. Each spindle fun

The eight-spindle Mori-Say TMZ 867 CNC multi-spindle multifunction production center can accommodate barstock as large as 72 mm in diameter and can operate as an open-front chucker.The multi-spindle offers high precision CNC production capability to a range of part sizes that, until now, required ot

The Hardinge Group has replaced the mechanical gearbox in the HLV toolroom lathe with an electronic servomotor and threading computer. This is said to both eliminate the need to purchase gears for different inch or metric threads and to ease left-hand threading. Thread range is 0.10 to 6.50 mm (4 to

The TMX series of slant-bed lathes from Hurco includes three turning centers: TMX8, TMX8MY and TMX8MYS, all of which include construction and high-performance specifications for efficiency. Specifications include rapids of 950 ipm (X axis) and 1,200 ipm (Z axis), a spindle speed of 14,500 rpm and a

The Nakamura-Tome WY-250 multi-tasking turn/mill center features an opposed two-spindle, two-turret construction with upper and lower Y-axis capability for milling and drilling simultaneously on both turrets. It also has a Super Mill drivetrain that produces high horsepower and torque for milling sp

Loading the player ... Video of gantry-loaded lathe There are many reasons why job shops are now considering automation. For some, increased pressure from low-cost regions is forcing them to reduce their direct-labor costs. For others, a lack o

Gentz Industries, in Warren, Michigan, is one of those shops that some suppliers love to have as a customer while others do not. Having Gentz as a good customer will make a supplier better—and all of its other customers will benefit, as well.Gentz might be called “challenging.” However, meeting chal

To a job shop, bidding on an unusual job with a quote that is too high or too low is an occupational hazard. Bid too high and you won’t get the work. Bid too low and you will lose money. Perhaps the worst scenario is to submit a bid that you thought was too high, only to get the job anyway. When tha

A recent of MMS Extra issue asked how shops feel about environmentally conscious machining and carbon-footprint reduction. Dan Goldsmith at Elmira Stamping & Mfg. in Elmira, New York, (www.elmirastamping.com) responded by mentioning some of the practical steps that have been taken at his shop t