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Oklahoma Job Shop Breaks into Precision Rifle Manufacturing
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: For a small job shop in central Oklahoma, tool and die work and prototyping are pretty common. But for Pritchett’s Machining, these types of jobs are only part of the equation. Preston Pritchett ...
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Ontario Company Delivers Value-Added Processing with Mitsubishi Laser
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: The headquarters of CFF Stainless Steel, Inc., is located in Hamilton, Ontario. This port city at the western end of Lake Ontario has been described as the hub of the Canadian steel industry, with ...
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Power Feed Conversion Kit Improves Efficiency
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: The Keystone Friction Hinge Co. has been metal stamping and industrial fabricating for 100 years. The 85,000 square-foot facility and its more than 90 employees work to deliver the superior quality ...
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Precision Cutting Tool Manufacturer Depends on Mitsubishi
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Morgood Tools designs and manufactures precision cutting tools for such applications as aerospace gas turbines, automotive fuel injectors and the screw machine market, was looking for a way to lower ...
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Quality, Value, Service Boost Die Maker
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Steady growth has been the story at Bestech Tool Corporation, a producer of metal stamping dies and tooling. Frank Fellenz and Michael Kornell bought a failing tool and die shop in 1993 and turned it ...
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Running EDM Economically
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Many shops are taking a closer look at the cost of operating a machine tool. How much energy does it consume? Does it create excessive heat, making the shop air conditioning work harder? Does it ...
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Sheet-Metal Fabricator Grows at 40% Per Year for 3 Years
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: MNdustries, Inc. is a 40,000 square-foot full-service sheet-metal fabricator. The shop's main application was originally custom powder coatings, but soon the company began investing in sheet metal ...
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Shop Achieves All-Time Productivity High
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Established by Greg and Jan Robbins in 1989, Robbins Manufacturing, Inc. has grown into a state-of-the-art fabrication company. The Wisconsin company is currently expanding its 127,000 square-foot ...
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Shop Doubles its Volume by Switching from Plasma to Laser
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: As a third-generation welder, Dave Braatz knows fabrication. He used a lifetime of experience to open his own shop in 1996. Braatz Welding, LLC, has been growing ever since, specializing in ...
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Shop Goes from 3 to 28 EDM Machines in Seven Years
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: "Quality is never an accident." This is how Quality EDM's company motto begins. President of the EDM shop, Mike Gervais has differentiated Quality EDM by putting immense emphasis on quality ...
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Shop Relies on Mitsubishi to Manufacture Off-Road Vehicles
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Larry Rosevear, owner of Laser Innovations, has been manufacturing off-road vehicles for more than 20 years. The fabrication shop also services the automotive, medical, aerospace and display ...
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Southwest Turbine: Innovative Customer Service Through Integrated Manufacturing Technology
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Southwest Turbine designs, manufactures and repairs replacement gas turbine (jet) engine parts for small to medium turboprop and turbofan commercial aircraft engines. Its customers include regional ...
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Subtraction by Addition Pays off for Oven Manufacturer
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: It's a manager's dream: free up machine operators, get rid of unneeded equipment, and expand a company's manufacturing capabilities by ADDING machinery. One might call it "subtraction by ...
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Successful Automation Isn't Automatic
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Whether it’s moving machinery, scheduling people or digging up the building’s original blueprints, communication makes or breaks the installation effort. The back-and-forth conversation ...
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Using CAD Data to Build Molds By the Numbers Can Reduce Costs and Leadtime
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Moldmaking is both an art and science and has always been at the forefront of innovation in metalworking technology. It's a dynamic arena where new ideas are continually being advanced. However, ...
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VZ2 Replaces Traditional Welding Technique
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Since Prototype Tooling and Manufacturing was founded in 1983, it has been fabricating parts and subassemblies for the automotive industry. Recently, the 22,000-square-foot facility has undergone a ...
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Wire EDM Allows Great Finish, Speed and Accuracy
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: For more than 25 years, Ron Witherspoon Inc. (RWI) has conducted business with two things in mind: quality and innovation. RWI has earned a high degree of customer loyalty and satisfaction by setting ...
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Wire EDM Reduces Machining Time and Increases Accuracy
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: World Class Technology knows a little something about tight tolerances. The company specializes in metal injection molding of orthodontic products, including brackets, buccal tubes and lingual ...
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Wire EDM Shop Expands with Mitsubishi
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Since K.A.M. Tool and Die opened in 1995, it has grown into one of the largest EDM shops in the southeast. K.A.M. services more than 100 customers throughout neighboring states in several major ...
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Not So Hard: New Tooling Technology and Application Expertise Take the Difficulty Out of Hard Milling
From: Greenleaf CorporationDescription: Given enough time and money, it is possible to machine any workpiece material. Most shops, however, don't have the luxury of unlimited lead time and unrestricted resources. Competitive pressures put a ...
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A Paradox - Green Buildings Vs Green Maintenance Practices
From: ADSIL Inc.Description: The concept of operating a "green building" has moved from the few to the many given an increased awareness to the environment and growing concerns regarding the facility environment. Institutions, ...
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Generic Surface Coatings For HVAC/R
From: ADSIL Inc.Description: For the past 25 years HVAC/R OEM and Contractor Installers have been applying various coatings/paints on HVAC condenser fins and coils to prevent corrosion. These traditional "paints" serve as thick ...
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Design Considerations for Injection Molded Parts
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Injection molding is an excellent way to bring out the best in plastics. It is universally used to make complex, finished parts, often in a single step, economically, precisely and with little waste. ...
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Cold-Forming Versus Machining
From: The Federal GroupDescription: In the distant past, artisans called blacksmiths used the earliest "process" to generate a usable shape from metal, a hammer and anvil. Manufacturing was "one at a time" and very slow. Approximately ...
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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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Combining Additive and Subtractive Techniques in the Design and Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices
From: ALine, Inc.Description: Laminate construction of microfluidic devices offers a means to incorporate both additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques for the development of multiplexed fluidic devices that have, for ...
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Roof-Top-Units and Other Non-Uniform Joist Loads
From: Canam Steel Corporation
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Stereolithography (SLA): The Pioneer in Rapid Prototyping
Description: Stereolithography (SLA) is often considered the pioneer of the Rapid Prototyping industry with the first commercial system introduced in 1988 by 3D Systems. The system consists of an Ultra-Violet ...
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Creating STL Files for 3D Prototyping
From: ProtoCAM