Everyone wants to reduce cycle times, but simply machining faster isn’t necessarily the answer. If high speed milling comes at the cost of reduced tool life and surface finish, the minutes gained ...

Tangential milling makes cutters much stronger and heavy cuts more secure and machine shops that make the switch from conventional milling note the effect in their productivity. Diagram shows how main ...

Siemens used this test part to demonstrate new state-of-the-art milling techniques. It is made of tool steel hardened to 54 HRC and was machined on a Micron HPM 800U machining center. Something most ...

Andy Trimmer, a chemical engineer at the GE Global Research Process Systems Lab operates the Blue Arc ™ thermal machining system that cuts engineering alloys faster and with less energy than ...