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Metal-to-plastic insertion of threaded magnetic steel inserts [CMF]
Description: A threaded brass rod holds the insert during the two second heating cycle. The process is repeatable and can be integrated into a production process... ...
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Metal Machinability Ratings
Description: Shows chart with metal Machinability Ratings for reference. ...
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Assembly Injection Molding Technical Bulletin
Description: With SIMTEC's Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) processing know-how and technology, it is now possible to integrate functions of parts with complex design, challenging geometry, and tight tolerances, into ...
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Characterization and Modeling of the Curing Process of Silicone Rubber
Description: Characterization and Modeling of the Curing Process of Silicone Rubber ...
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Liquid Silicone Material and Properties
Description: Liquid Silicone Material and Properties ...
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Deformulation of an Epoxy Hardener
From: ANALYZE Inc.Description: As more specialty chemicals are being imported into North America, there is an increasing need to demonstrate equivalency with materials that were once available locally. ...
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12 Ways to Save
Description: These updated product planning and design strategies can aid OEM product designers and engineers in achieving improved product performance at significantly lower part costs. ...
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Cost-Effective DieCast Components
Description: The die casting process has established its ability to produce complex, high-strength housings and components. To net- or near-net-shapes at low unit cost. Durable parts that can be serviced and ...
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Die Casting Design and Specification Guide
Description: The guidelines presented in this publication are intended to aid OEM product design engineers in designing and specifying parts for cost-effective die casting production-in aluminum, magnesium, zinc ...
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Application Notes: ITO Coatings
From: Abrisa TechnologiesDescription: The tech note explains what an ITO coating is, how it is used and the benefits associated with ITO coating on glass. ...
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Ceramic Replaces Titanium with Machining Assistance (.pdf)
From: Insaco, Inc.Description: The Cleveland Clinic was investigating the use of ceramic materials for potential use in a right ventricle assist device to place the current coated titanium stator housing used in the pump assembly. ...
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Proper Design Essential for Storage, Flow and Metering of Powdered Activated Carbon (.pdf)
From: Metalfab, Inc.Description: Powdered activated carbon (PAC) used as a sorbent for control of mercury emissions from coal fired power plants exhibits properties which can present challenging problems for storage, flow and ...
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Explosive Cladding: Applications for Manufacturing (.pdf)
From: TPL, Inc.Description: Explosive bonding is a cold-welding process (no Heat Affected Zone) for dis/similar metals that produces a strong bond and small interface. ...
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Measure the Size of Cement Particles using CILAS 930e Particle Size Analyzer (.pdf)
From: CILASDescription: Different types of cement are obtained by varying the size of the particles. For example, quick setting cement is produced by grinding finer size particles than those used for ordinary Portland ...
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Measurement of Certified Cement with Dry Jet Dispersion Technology (.pdf)
From: CILASDescription: The cement industry improves the performance of its products every day. This continuous adaptation of production plants to technical, ecological and so on requirements makes it necessary for regular ...
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Measurement of Pigments with Dry Jet Dispersion Technology (.pdf)
From: CILASDescription: Pigments are chemical compounds which reflect only certain wavelengths of visible light. This makes them appear colorful. Pigments generally are dry, fine powders that are practically soluble in many ...
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Guidelines for Surface-Mount Power Modules Using Column Pins with Solder Balls (.pdf)
From: Lineage PowerDescription: This application note is intended to provide the user with the best information to date regarding the PCB (printed-circuit-board) mounting and assembly process of TEPS surface-mountable power modules ...
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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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Aftermarket Aircraft Part Identification
From: ANALYZE Inc.Description: There is a large global market in sourcing aftermarket parts to be used in the ongoing maintenance of aircraft. In some instances, airline and independent aircraft maintenance centers require ...
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Electroless Nickle (.pdf)
Description: The Metal Finishing Suppliers' Association (MFSA) is a trade association of companies and individuals involved in supplying, chemicals, equipment, technology, and solutions to the surface finishing ...
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Molded Inserts in Aluminum Castings
Description: Similar to the plastic injection industry, we are able to cast inserts of all shape, sizes, and materials into our Permanent Mold Aluminum Castings. This technology is most commonly used to cast ...
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Permold Casting Tutorial (.pdf)
Description: The Permold process, also known as Gravity Die-Casting, produces large number of castings via a non-destructible, metal mold. Specifically, molten metal is poured into a passageway leading to the part ...
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Permold Castings Vs. Fabrications (.pdf)
Description: Often, the most challenging casting "conversion" project involves going from a fabrication to a casting. A certain amount of creativity, patience, and sacrifice is often needed from the designer as ...
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A Better Way to Cast Aluminum (.pdf)
Description: Today, gravity-fed permanent metal molds can produce near-net-shape parts from a variety of aluminum alloys. But it's up to the designer to makes sure it's both possible and profitable to use ...
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Aerojet's Near Net Shape Technology (.pdf)
From: Aerojet RocketdyneDescription: Powder Metallurgy (PM) is a process for manufacturing components through compaction of blended metal power followed by a sintering heat treatment to achieve full density. Alternative to casting. ...
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Influence of Nitinol Wire Surface Preparation Procedures (.pdf)
From: Fort Wayne Metals, Inc.Description: As the use of nitinol continues to grow in medical applications, so also does the need to acquire additional fundamental information regarding the stability of the material, in specific areas of ...
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Optimization of Melt Chemistry and Properties of Drawn Filled Tube
From: Fort Wayne Metals, Inc.Description: The purpose of this paper is to review the property improvements of this alloyed wire through the use of enhanced melting chemistry. The new chemistry is the 35N LT® material which meets the ...
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Advanced Quality Planning: A Commonsense Guide to AQP and APQP
Description: Advanced Quality Planning: A Commonsense Guide to AQP and APQP This guide clearly explains the AQP process and how to situate development in the structure of planning strategies. ...
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High-Resolution Laser Micromachining
From: Gateway Laser ServicesDescription: St. Louis, MO - Gateway Laser Services utilizes a high-resolution laser micromachining process to micromachine "very small parts" with feature sizes down to 0.001 inch and tolerances to ± 0.0002 inch. ...
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Laser Welding Creates Potential for Small Parts Applications
From: Gateway Laser ServicesDescription: Laser welding is an effective method for joining small parts with tight tolerances. In the future, it will compete with traditional methods of welding or replace assembly/joining technologies ...
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Backing Ring Welding Procedure (.doc)
Description: Robvon Backing Rings are inserted into the beveled pipe end with the spacer nubs flush against the pipe land and the ring gap positioned in the area of first bead deposition. The beveled end of the ...
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Consumable Insert Welding Procedure (.doc)
Description: The Robvon Consumable Insert Ring is to be used with tungsten inert gas (TIG). DC and Straight polarity is used for "TIG" welding. The weld joint and immediate adjoining area of parts to be welded ...
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M Programming: A Comprehensive Guide
Description: M Programming: A Comprehensive Guide An A-Z guide to the programming language now known as MUMPS. ...
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Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design
Description: Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design Written for students taking undergraduate level courses in engineering materials, MS&E, manufacturing and design, and related mechanical ...
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ISO 9001:2000 Audit Procedures, Second Edition
Description: ISO 9001:2000 Audit Procedures, Second Edition With comprehensive detail on the structure, aims, benefits and requirements of ISO 9001:2000, this book describes the methods for completing management ...
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Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Define and Refine User Interfaces
Description: Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Define and Refine User Interfaces This book is a practical, how-to guide that will prepare you to create and test paper prototypes of all kinds of user ...
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Automotive Quality Systems Handbook, Second Edition
Description: Automotive Quality Systems Handbook, Second Edition A comprehensive guide to understanding and satisfying the requirements of ISO/TS 16949:2002, this book formalizes, under a single world-wide ...
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What is Photo Etching?
Description: Photo etching is a process used in the creation of integrated circuits, that combines photolithography with the etching process. Photolithography is used to form patterns on semiconductor substrates ...
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Using High-Feed Machining Stategies to Get to Net Shape
Description: T Images courtesy of B&B Studios, Inc., Makino and Millstar. The most important issue facing the mold and die industry in recent years is throughput. Throughput is the amount of work a shop can ...
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Laser Welding Carbon Nanocomposites
Description: Carbon nanocomposites consist of thermoset or thermoplastic materials filled with carbon nano-particles (nanotubes, bucky balls, etc.). This new and innovative group of materials offers many ...
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Micromachining of Carbon Nanocomposites with Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4 Frequency Converted Solid State Lasers
Description: Carbon nanocomposites consist of thermoset and thermoplastic materials filled with carbon nano-particles (nanotubes, bucky balls, etc.). This new and innovative group of materials offers many ...
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Semiconductor Micromachining Using Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers
Description: Laser micromachining of semiconductor materials such as silicon and sapphire has attracted more and more attention in recent years. High precision laser cutting and drilling processes have been ...
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"Building Green is Easy" (.doc)
From: ADSIL Inc.Description: Maintaining " Green Maintenance Practices" can also be easy even with an ever decreasing budget. However, most facility maners across the country are not aware of how to do this. Is it all out of your ...
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Being Green? The Kansas Land Rush or a Real Commitment (.doc)
From: ADSIL Inc.Description: You may have memories of the old black & white films depicting the rush for land in Kansas during the 1890's. There were hundreds of thousands of people in all sorts of transportation modes stumbling ...
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Injection Molding 101
Description: The cycle begins with the extruder plasticizing the resin and accumulating it in the forward section of the barrel. The heater bands maintain the melt's temperature as the shot it built up. The mold ...
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Taking Aluminum Extrusions to the Next Level
Description: Aluminum extrusions can be designed to minimize the need for further processing, making assembly and final production easier and more efficient. Nevertheless, extrusions often require some type of ...
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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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Accuracy Determines Quality in Electrode Manufacturing
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: In the fierce competition of the global market, U.S. manufacturers must continually find ways to reduce costs and leadtimes. Moldmakers must continue to evaluate the machining process regularly to ...
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Automation Helps Company Maximize Sheet Utilization and Stay Competitive
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: When it comes to manufacturing, working smart and efficiently seems like a no-brainer. But at Sintel Inc., this basic philosophy guides every decision relating to the Lake, Michigan-based business. ...
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Automation Increases Throughput at Die/Mold Job Shop
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Omega Plastics, provider of high-quality tooling and low volume molding solutions, takes pride in offering a variety of tooling solutions to its customers in the medical, automotive and consumer ...
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Automation Increases Throughput at Die/Mold Job Shop
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Omega Plastics, provider of high-quality tooling and low volume molding solutions, takes pride in offering a variety of tooling solutions to its customers in the medical, automotive and consumer ...
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Betting on Technology
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Boot gussets, leg wrappers, stacking caps. If you don't recognize these names you're not alone. Though they may sound like items from a Target advertisement, they are actually the names of some of the ...
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Company Celebrates 25 Years; Diversification is the Key to Success
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: About 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, near the town of Apollo, are the facilities of Rearick Tooling and its two subsidiaries, JIT Global Enterprises and JIT Prototyping. With 75,000 ...
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Company Uses EDM to Manufacture Custom Medical Components
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Manufacturing for the medical market requires superior accuracy, top precision, and the flexibility to accommodate the demands of a constantly-evolving industry. Paul Viola, President of Quantum ...
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CPG Helps Shop Operate 24/7
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Ken Sanner, Vice President of Carbi Tech Inc., knows how important having a good consumable partner is to stay at the top of today's competitive world of EDM. Carbi Tech owns 3 Wire Mitsubishi EDMs, ...
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Crash Test Dummy Manufacturer Brings EDM In-House
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: First Technology Safety Systems (FTSS) is the world leader in the manufacturing of crash test dummies. Over the past 40 years, FTSS and its parent companies have pioneered the industry, first ...
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Custom-Production Shop Increases Productivity
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: South Jersey Metal, Inc. has been creating custom-designed and quality-crafted kitchen food service equipment since 1946. Director of Operations Jared Wagner is upholding the reputation his ...
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Cutting Tool Manufacturer Penetrates New Markets
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Certified Tool & Grinding is a cutting tool manufacturer and contract EDM shop that specializes in cutting devices for the medical, aerospace and automotive industries. In 2000, the company moved ...
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Data Management Complements Laser Capabilities
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Laser Precision, LLC uses laser technology for prototype parts, production runs of any size, stainless and carbon steel processing, aluminum processing, multiple-bend parts and automotive parts. The ...
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Die/Mold Maker Stays Competitive with Mitsubishi Technology
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: For nearly 25 years, PTM, Inc. has specialized in building and customizing plastic injection molds and stamping dies for many industries, including automotive, recreational, electronic and building. ...
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EDM Boosts Form Tool Industry
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: When recession hits in the form tool industry, "You've got to get busy living, or get busy dying," as a character in the movie The Shawshank Redemption puts it. The need for flexibility and ...
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EDM Brings Cost Savings by Reducing Maintainance
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Those are two lessons Blanda, Inc. has learned and put into practice. The shop has gone through plenty of twists and turns since its 1978 founding, but Mitsubishi EDM has remained an integral part of ...
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EDM Customer Grows Business with New Mitsubishi Technology
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Haas Precision Corporation is located in Oldcastle, Ontario, one of the Canadian suburbs of Detroit. So close to ‘Motor City’, but only distantly related, the firm serves primarily the ...
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EDM Plus Automation Helps Facility Meet Demand
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Sometimes, an automation project turns out even better than expected. AREVA is a worldwide leader in the energy field and one of the world's largest suppliers of nuclear technology. One of its ...
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EDM Provides Accuracy for Micromachining
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Accuracy is a term we hear so often in the EDM industry, it begins to lose its meaning after a while. But if you are Advanced EDM Automation, and you're doing micro-machining, accuracy is crucial, and ...
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Electroform Company: Flying High
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: The secret to Electroform Company’s (Rockford, IL) success lies in the fact that over the years it has been able to adapt to a changing economy while continuing to fulfill the ever-changing ...
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Energy/Aerospace Manufacturer Excels with EDM
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: "It is our mission to serve our customers with high quality, reliable service and competitive pricing," states company president, Carl Sommer. He and sons Steve and Phil Sommer have ...
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FA Series Provides Precision on Large Parts
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Schneer is president of Swiss Wire EDM, an EDM shop that specializes in large components, mainly for the aerospace industry. When Schneer found out that the Mitsubishi FA30V wire EDM machine could ...
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Fabrication Shop Finds Niche in Thick-Plate Cutting
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: During his 20 years of employment at a metal service center, Bill Hohler recognized the need for a laser cutting facility in northern Indiana. In the summer of 1998, he started Bralin Laser with one ...
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FAS Leads to Better Productivity and Profitability
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: For more than 25 years, Westfield Tool & Die, Inc. has supported the competitive New England manufacturing market with EDM work, precision tooling and prototyping. The small company supplies the ...
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Fast Delivery and Installation Distinguish Mitsubishi
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Lasers Unlimited was founded by Alan Bush in 1996. He gained several years of laser-cutting experience from Novi Laser. Novi Laser had used competitive equipment, so purchasing the same machines for ...
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Flexible Automation System Manufactures Dixie Chopper Parts
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: The story of one of Mitsubishi's newest first-time laser customers starts in 1974, when Art and Jean Evans opened a mower sales and repair business. It was not long before Art began to have ideas ...
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Freightliner and Mitsubishi: Partners in Productivity
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Freightliner. Of all the names found on the many big rigs that are the lifeblood of our economy, no other conveys the purpose of the vehicle it is on. Not only does Freightliner identify a particular ...
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Ghost in the Machines
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: ne of the foremost reasons MC Machinery Systems Inc., Wood Dale, Ill., a division of Mitsubishi Corp., maintains its EDM Museum is because its customers demand it. More than a decade after the first ...
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Go With The Flow
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: In a job-shop environment, flexibility is the key to a successful operation. Fox Valley Metal-Tech, Green Bay, Wis., has improved both its productivity and flexibility by installing two Mitsubishi ...
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Hybrid Design and Versatility Opens New Markets
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Paul Bailey started his business when he was 23, with only $2000 and two presses, operating out of his basement. That was in 1983. Over the next 17 years, Hi-Tech Fabricators rented increasingly ...
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Improved Profitability through Process Improvement
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: As the mold industry adjusts to a global economy, American mold builders need to find ways to compete with countries that have significantly lower labor cost. Some of these changes however are ...
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Increased Capabilities with Sinker EDM
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: You are only as strong as your foundation. Don Knoth knew this when he started DEW Technologies in 1996. Since day one he's defined the four cornerstones of his company and instilled them in every ...
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Injection Mold Maker Finds Success with Used EDM
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Paul Peltier, president of Preferred Tool, said he never thought he would be able to have high-end EDM equipment in his three-man shop. That was before he became involved with Encore EDM, Mitsubishi's ...
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Investment Program Leads to EDM Installations at COM DEV
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Three years ago, Cambridge, ON-based COM DEV Ltd. decided to upgrade its equipment and technology and embarked on a significant capital investment program that included the recent installation of two ...
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Job Shop Breaks Into Food Industry With EDM
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: There's a lot to be said for being in the right place at the right time. And especially with the right equipment, according to ASA Precision Company, Inc. and its President and Owner, Steve Schmidt. ...
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Job Shop Eliminates Inventory and Material Handling Problem
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Since its establishment, Tri-State Fabricators has grown from a 10,000 to 125,000 squarefoot facility. Jay Richard Vogt founded this fabricating and finishing shop in 1983. According to VP of Sales ...
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Job Shop Relies on 2D Laser
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Founded in an area of the country that is predominately agriculture didn't stop tool and die maker Fred Wilke from leaving a major tool manufacturer to start up his own shop in 1987. It didn't keep ...
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Joe Gibbs Racing Relies on Mitsubishi EDM
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: It seems like a fairly conventional part for precision machining - a small shim, varying from .003" to .008" in thickness, with several slots ranging from .010" to .080" wide. What ...
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Keys to Efficient, Economical Wire EDM
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Make the most of your wire-EDM machining by purchasing units with energy-saving features, adopting efficient production practices and using the correct wire-coated wire can increase speed by 15 ...
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Laser Increases Cutting Ability 60%
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: For one New England fabricator, the investment in a new laser came with a bigger payoff than expected. Salem Metal Fabricators, Inc., purchased their first Mitsubishi Laser, a 3015 LVP, for the ...
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Lasers Enable Critical Diversification
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: That employment picture has changed as radically as the company's capital equipment cache and customer base. In 1981, Chuck Watson, Sr. was welding custom exhaust components for local hot-rodders. ...
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Live or Die Making Tools
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Leo Niemela's business style is a product of his upbringing. Niemela recalled his grandfather's most influential teaching when he described the day his mom and her sister said they were going ...
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LV-PLUS Beats the Competition
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Michael Herold was 16 when he started working in his father's stamping and fabrication business. Brothers Pat and Tim also joined the team when they reached 16. The shop had started laser cutting in ...
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LVP's Speed Capacity Pays for Machine
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: AccuBurn's plate-burning division was started by Marcus McGowan eight years ago with one plasma machine in a borrowed corner of the shop's facility. The business grew rapidly into today's 25,000 ...
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Medical Manufacturing World Leader Chooses Mitsubishi EDM
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Zimmer, Inc. was founded in 1927 by Mr. Justin O. Zimmer after a former employer at a splint manufacturing company failed to share his innovation. The company has become a world leader in joint ...
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Meeting Production Requirements For Medical
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: You might think that medical manufacturing always calls for complicated machine tools with lots of high-tech features for applications where no expense can be spared. This is not true. Medical ...
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Metalformer Laser - Cuts in 2d, Manages Growth in 3D
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: When the firm installed its first lasercutting machine in January 2005, American Cap owner-managers Todd Diehl (COO) and second-generation family owners Phil Moroco II (president) and Rich Moroco ...
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MicroEDMing Medical Parts
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Working with electrode wire four to five times smaller than a human hair, holding parts barely visible with the naked eye, and accurately producing holes as tiny as 0.0005 in. in diameter is nothing ...
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Minimize Downtime and Maximize Productivity with Preventative Maintenance
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: The Preventative Maintenance Program is a comprehensive plan designed to keep your Mitsubishi EDM and Roku-Roku equipment running at peak performance while reducing overall maintenance and service ...
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Mitsubishi Helps Automotive Manufacturer Branch Into EDM
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: To stay competitive, you have to evolve with the industry and always find ways to lead your company over the competition. This is no secret to Kevin and Scott Baker, co-owners of Baker Machining and ...
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Mitsubishi Laser Doubles Last Year's Sales in Six Months
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Don't talk to Rodney Westich of Duggan Manufacturing about calculating payback on high-technology investments. Westich has a better yardstick. He bought four Mitsubishi laser-cutting machines over a ...
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Multi-Industry Company Relies on Mitsubishi
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: It isn't uncommon in the manufacturing industry for a successful and growing company to expand to more than one facility. A company's success in this industry leads to new customers and increased work ...
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New LVP Increases Output by 50%
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Tornqvist, Inc., established in 1876, is a longtime manufacturer of component parts for the industrial, architectural and pharmaceutical industries. The company moved into a new 27,500 square-foot ...