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Medical Components Advances in Fully Automated Swiss Machining Cells Optimize Speed, Quality, and Economy in the Machining of Precision Cylindrical Medical Components
Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Swiss machine technology has proven itself to the medical device community where larger quantities of precision machined cylindrical parts are required with consistent quality. ...
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How "Craft" Still Plays a Vital Role in Peridot's Operations
From: Peridot CorporationDescription: In today's high volume, big box, got-to-have-it right now world, the word "craft" feels like it's quickly fading from our vernacular. However, when it comes to the development and fabrication of ...
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Knowledge your Job Shop supplier should have
From: Protomatic, Inc.Description: This is abasic outline of what to look for when selecting a Job Shop as a supplier. ...
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Medical Machining with Carbon Dioxide (Co2)
From: Protomatic, Inc.Description: Machining medical parts with CO2 eliminates chemical contamination, improves dimensional control and extend tool life. This paper describes Protomatic's experiences with this technology. ...
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The Art of a Prototyping Machine Shop
From: Protomatic, Inc.Description: Not all machine shops are prototyping shops. This paper describes the characteristics an entrepreneur should seek when selecting a machine shop for development of their prototype parts. ...
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Diamond Point Turning / Machining Considerations
Description: Areas such as the time required for alignment and collimation of the optical elements in their final subassembly or assembly is greatly reduced by use of integral precision reference surfaces that ...
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Metal Machinability Ratings
Description: Shows chart with metal Machinability Ratings for reference. ...
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Success Stories : Catering Equipment Sector - Small-batch Production but with High Levels of Complexity and Quality
Description: Metalplast started in 1987 as a small family-run job shop specialising in metal tube processing. From its small beginnings, with only three people, the company has grown and evolved to become a ...
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Success Stories: Aerospace - The Best Practice in Aerospace is 'All-Electric'
Description: Specialising in the manufacture of high quality, fabricated, tubular assemblies primarily for aerospace applications but also for automotive applications, Freeman & Proctor Ltd's 30,000 sq. ft. ...
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Success Stories: Automotive - Closer Bends
Description: S.B.F. TUBI was established in 1996 processing tubes on a contracting basis. Over the years, the company has evolved from simple tube bending or welding to a company that manufactures complete ...
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Success Stories: Automotive - Each Project Has Its Own "Cell"
Description: According to Caparo Tube Components Ltd's Managing Director, Phil Begley, two major orders were secured during 2007 because BLM GROUP UK Ltd undertook to supply the necessary production equipment ...
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Success Stories: Automotive - Organised for the Top End
Description: Gebr. Wielpütz, located in Hilden, Germany, is one of the main users of BLM systems and Mr. Olaf Janitza, Technical Director tells us why. "Speed, improvement, reliability, precision and economy. ...
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Success Stories: Automotive - Supplying Finished Components
Description: Eurometal S.A., producer of aluminium alloys and its derivatives, has a history of constant research for innovation and new lines of development that involve investments in machinery and quality ...
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Success Stories: Automotive - There is Always a Winning Solution
Description: The activities of Alpes Meccanica s.r.l. from Pian Camuno (BS) have their origins in a simple concept: to find potential customers and offer them innovative technological solutions for mechanical ...
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Success Stories: Fences - The Lowest Possible Cost of Part
Description: Before Paramount Steel Fence took delivery of a BLM ADIGE TS72 CNC production saw in November 2008, the company's Burslem, Stoke on Trent site was regularly running a night shift to keep pace with the ...
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Success Stories: Fencing - Attention to Detail
Description: What is impressive about the new facility of VM INOX, located in Gerenzano, in the province of Varese, is, first of all, the perfect order and cleanliness of the production area. Even the machines ...
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Success Stories: Healthcare - Strong, Stable and Light
Description: Healthcare equipment manufacturer Sidhil Ltd's initial venture into CNC laser tube cutting and profiling has proved so successful that all three variants of the Halifax, West Yorkshire company's ...
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Success Stories: Job shop - As Added Value ... The Lasertube
Description: Danieli Laser Cut s.r.l., a family-run business, located in Castelgoberto, in the province of Vicenza, has grown over the years to turn into one of the most far-sighted examples of laser job shops in ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - Flexible Machines Assure Versatilità
Description: Ciclo Fapril SA in Portugal has undergone many changes over its 46 years of activity that make it stand out. As mentioned in the company name, the business set out as a producer of bicycle components ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - From the Anvil to the Laser
Description: When talking about entrepreneurship, we often forget the basic principles: vision and risk taking. Ideas en Metal of Gijon in Spain, has the emblem of vision impressed in its corporate name "to turn ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - Looking Over the Horizon
Description: Mike Lee's mission is to spread the gospel of "innovation with tube" into the mid-continent market of North America. Lee has never really stopped transforming his Winnipeg tube fabrication company, ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - Small Companies Grow
Description: AL.PI Srl, located in Rosà in the province of Vicenza has been in the precision metal fabrication and stainless steel, iron and aluminium tube processing business since 1985. The family-run company ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - The Advantage of Being in Portugal
Description: Since 1987 Epedal S.A., which was founded in 1981 to supply the motorcycle industry, restructured itself to produce components for the automobile industry. Today, it has reached a remarkable size with ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - The Courage to Change
Description: When Iwasaki Co. Ltd of Osaka, Japan decided to purchase the first lasertube system that the BLM Group had sold in the Far East back in 2003, it was a challenge for both the customer and the supplier. ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - The Process Starts from Coil
Description: Tube processing specialist HMD Ltd's new 21,000 sq. ft. building in Hoyland Road, Sheffield, has nearly three times the floor area of its current unit and is home to a four-machine tube processing ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - The Revolutionary Lasertube
Description: Stockholding in the past equated to little more than 'breaking bulk'; buying in volume from mills and selling on smaller quantities to lots of different customers. However, as customers began to ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - The Winning Wager
Description: METRIO is a Job shop for all-round lasertube processing. The company has five machines that were purchased from the BLM Group back in 1998; two systems of the first LT series, an LT651 and an LT652 ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - Twenty-four Bending Sequences
Description: By taking advantage of its relevant experience and wide range of equipment, Mecart srl, Reggio Emilia, Italy, is able to fully satisfy any production requirement of its customers. Mecart srl ...
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Success Stories: Job Shop - Winking to Structural Tubing
Description: The Gatti & Frigerio Srl was founded back in 1963 by Mr. Gatti and Mr. Frigerio, who recently welcomed us to their production facility located in Alserio, in the province of Como. The company employs ...
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Success Stories: Jobshop - Doing Something Others Don't
Description: On a snowy winter evening near Prague, Mr. Jan Beran owner of PROFILAS shows us the business facilities that he set up about three years ago for job shop machining. From outside the view is a little ...
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Success Stories: Laser Job Shop - Laser as Common Thread
Description: Nordloh is a small village in northern Germany, near the border with the Netherlands, characterized by a rural landscape that evokes bucolic images quite in contrast with the presence of several major ...
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Success stories: Nautical - Quality and Aesthetics
Description: Nautinox, Italy, adds electric lasertube and tube bending systems combined with human expertise and skill to implement nautical accessories of absolute quality Emilio Cattaneo, owner and founder of ...
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Success Stories: Office Furniture - Aesthetic and Laser Cutting
Description: We are in the suburbs of Opava, in the Czech Republic, a few kilometers away from the border with Poland. The road we took to get to Opava was surrounded by a beautiful natural landscape. In the ...
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Success Stories: Structural Steel Work - The Service Culture for Large Tubes
Description: Tubilaser Srl offers a modern service for pre-machined and semi-finished products either as a complete supply or sub-contracted work in the field of large tubes Tubilaser Srl, located in Ponzano ...
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Success Stories: Sub-Contracting - Being Competitive Without Sacrificing Added Value
Description: The mechanical engineering company, UNI-MECC srl, from Villanova near Turin, began in 1990because its founders Roberto Bruneri and Venanzio Peinetti believed that there was a healthy demand for the ...
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Success Stories: Technology - Easy and Ecologic Lasers
Description: "Green Technology" is no longer a target, but a simple fact. From bending to cutting, the BLM Group offers a range of machines and solutions that make lower energy consumption an inevitabile "plus". ...
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Success Stories: Transport - Much Less Space for Double the Parts
Description: The increasing requirements for lower production times, higher quality and precision, together with the increasingly stringent standards are the main reasons for companies being forced to invest in ...
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Game Designer Hits the Jackpot with First Cut® (.pdf)
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: International Game Technology in Reno, Nevada is a global company that designs, manufactures, and sells computerized gaming machines. Diane Strachan is one of the company's product designers. The ...
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Conducting Quality Audits in Offshore Motor Components Factories
From: SinotechDescription: Many motor manufacturers are going offshore to purchase or manufacture motor components. These include commutators, brushes, armatures, magnets, laminations, etc. Offshore factories vary considerably ...
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Food Industry Opportunities for Savvy Distributors (.pdf)
From: Nytef GroupDescription: It has often been said that "America feeds the world." While this may be somewhat of an exaggeration, the statement definitely dramatizes the output of the United States' $1.3 trillion food industry. ...
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Fast, Functional, Prototypes (.pdf)
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: designsUNLIMITED uses Protomold regularly for production of functional prototypes. "The resin in SLA prototypes isn't suitable for thermal, electrical, or mechanical analysis," Ventress says. ...
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Faster Prototyping Speeds Products to the Front (.pdf)
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Applied Marine Technology, Inc. (AMTI) provides professional and technical services and specialized products for Homeland Security. Since 1991, the Virginia Beach VA company has grown from a three-man ...
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High-Performance Prototyping at 3PAR (.pdf)
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: "During the prototyping process we did our best to use Protomold's standard delivery time of three weeks," says Hsue. "However, there were times when we utilized its fast-turnaround service to get ...
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Newman Group Makes Sound Prototyping Choices (.pdf)
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Sometimes, Spencer Newman, president of The Newman Group, a medical device manufacturer, wishes he'd discovered Protomold® and First Cut Prototype® a little sooner. "A while back, we were ...
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Case History: Catalina Cylinders - Manufacturer of High and Low Pressure Aluminum Compressed Gas Cylinders
Description: GARDEN GROVE, California - Rick Hill, plant manager at Catalina Cylinders, had three criteria for a new marking system - it had to be fast, safe and quiet. "The marker we had been using for almost 10 ...
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Case History: Mathey Dearman - Manufacturer of Pipe Cutting and Beveling Machines
Description: What do you do when you discover the products you manufacture are being counterfeited and, worse yet, the counterfeit products are causing serious performance problems for your customers? "In 60 years ...
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Case History: Mercury MerCruiser - Manufacturer of Consumer Outboard Engines
Description: The massive MerCruiser facility, (Stillwater, OK), which spans more than 750,000 square feet and 250 acres, serves as a worldwide manufacturing and distribution center that has produced over 2.5 ...
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Should I Use a Metal Machining Company to Manufacture my Plastic Parts?
Description: This article explains the difference between companies that machine metal and companies that machine plastic, and explains the hazards of using a metal machinist to produce plastic parts. ...
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Newsletter -- Champion New Technologies (.pdf)
From: Die-Tech, Inc.Description: Business does not stop in a recession, because we develop strategies for survival," disclosed Richard Dennis, President of Die-Tech. Manufacturing floors these days seem a little less crowded, but ...
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Newsletter -- Embrace Continuous Process Improvement (.pdf)
From: Die-Tech, Inc.Description: In the December 2008 Newsletter, Richard Dennis, President of Die-Tech, revealed the company's strategy for thriving during an economic downturn. "A good defense is not enough," he said, relating to ...
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Newsletter -- How Healthy is Your Supply Chain? (.pdf)
From: Die-Tech, Inc.Description: How important are your suppliers to your success? What would happen if one of your key suppliers shut down? These are the questions that keep Supply Chain Managers up at night. And, in these very ...
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Newsletter -- Let Go of Traditional Management Practices (.pdf)
From: Die-Tech, Inc.Description: The flood of statistical evidence showing reduced demand, lower production and diminished profits in the manufacturing sector makes many wonder whether manufacturing in the United States is a dying ...
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Newsletter -- When is Good Enough NOT Good Enough? (.pdf)
From: Die-Tech, Inc.Description: Have you ever been approached in a restaurant by a server who, in the middle of your meal, asks, "Is everything okay?" Is it really the expectation of the restaurant owner to provide merely "okay" ...
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Watch This Video on How Die-Tech Stamps Cell Phone Components
From: Die-Tech, Inc.Description: Die-Tech Stamps Cell Phone Components for the Telecommunications Industry. See how it's done. ...
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Watch This Video on How Die-Tech Stamps Hybrid Edge Clips
From: Die-Tech, Inc.Description: Die-Tech stamps hybrid edge clips for the consumer electronics industry. See how it's done. ...
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Precision Parts in CVD Silicon Carbide
From: Insaco, Inc.Description: A customer pioneering in the life sciences industry contacted Insaco for a quote on Aluminum Nitride machining for their developmental part requiring excellent hardness and good thermal conductivity. ...
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High Speed, Multi-Channel, State-of-the-Art CNC
From: Fagor AutomationDescription: As Fagor Automation was creating the 8070 CNC system it really came back to one simple question: "What do customers require from their CNC in today's fast paced manufacturing environment?" Their ...
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Shop Floor Programming Systems
From: Fagor AutomationDescription: Yesterday instead of Tomorrow......certainly seems to be the popular theme in today's very competitive lean market. This popular theme applies to more than just quick machine deliveries or fast ...
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Unlocking the Mystery of CNC High Speed Machining
From: Fagor AutomationDescription: High Speed Machining may be one of the great mysteries of the Machine Tool Industry. Many associate High Speed Machining Centers with features such as High speed 10,000 + rpm spindle systems, coolant ...
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MEDICAL - Surgical Bone Saw
Description: Helical's application engineer, working with the customer's design engineer, was able to reduce the number of parts on the original design. This allowed the customer to improve his finished product ...
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General Milling Application Data - Milling 101
From: Greenleaf CorporationDescription: Select a cutter diameter greater than the workpiece width by a ratio of approximately 1.5 to 1. This will ensure that each insert enters the cut without the frictional, no-chip phase which occurs when ...
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Milling Nickel-based Alloys - Milling Heat Resistant Alloys
From: Greenleaf CorporationDescription: WG-300 is successfully used for the turning of hard materials other than Nickel-based alloys in the range of 45-65 Rc. The outstanding hardness, combined with the high strength imparted by the ...
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Graphite Electrodes
From: Saturn Industries, Inc.Description: Graphite electrodes are by far the most popular EDM electrodes used in the United States. Here at Saturn we feel that it is important to give our customers what they want and in doing so offer ...
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Metal Electrodes
From: Saturn Industries, Inc.Description: Producing metal EDM electrodes is a Saturn specialty. Our matched knowledge and experience in working with metals has made us the industry's leading manufacturer of metal electrodes for EDM. Saturn ...
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Tapping Electrodes
From: Saturn Industries, Inc.Description: We offer our tapping electrodes in POCO EDM 3, POCO EDM C3, Brass, Copper, & Copper Tungsten, in both Standard and Orbiting. Regardless of the material you choose, you can depend on our quality ...
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Advantages of Chemical Etching Over Traditional Methods of Manufacturing
From: Fotofab Corp.Description: In an environment where better, faster and cheaper must prevail to be successful, chemical etching is a unique solution for design engineers who need precision metal parts. Chemical etching (also ...
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Designing Without Boundaries
From: PMF Industries, Inc.Description: Thank you for your interest in our paper. Whether you're fresh out of school or an industry veteran of several decades, we feel you will find value in the process that we present here. It is our ...
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Design Guide to Photochemical Etching
From: Fotofab Corp.Description: The information in the Design Guide provides you with considerations and general guidelines for designing metal parts to be made with Fotofab's photochemical machining process. ...
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TA017: Development of a High Voltage mmW GaAs PIN Diode Switch
From: Cobham Sensor SystemsDescription: The initial development of a three pole three throw, (3P3T), switch for 35 to 40 GHz applications on the surface was thought to be a straightforward frequency scaled adaptation of a previously ...
