Smart Tooling Takes Autonomous Machining By Force

Smart Tooling Takes Autonomous Machining By Force

A REGO-FIX special guest blog featuring Pro-Micron From handwheel controls through punched-tape toolpath programming to full CNC guidance, machining operations have evolved from manual activities toward fully autonomous systems. Each step in the progression has made...
Tool Your Turrets In Minutes Rather Than Hours

Tool Your Turrets In Minutes Rather Than Hours

Tool Your Turrets In Minutes Rather Than Hours It’s axiomatic that manufacturing machines only make money when they’re making chips, and the more chips machines produce by reducing setup and retooling downtime, the more money they make. While those statements apply...
Cut the Corrosion with Stainless Tool Holders

Cut the Corrosion with Stainless Tool Holders

Recent research and resulting innovations in the production of stainless steel tooling are enabling shops to meet the extreme cleanliness requirements of certain manufacturing sectors, especially those in the aerospace and medical industries.  In those situations...
Through-tool Coolant Cuts Cycle Times

Through-tool Coolant Cuts Cycle Times

Many shops understandably try to recover the expensive acquisition cost of live-tool machines by saving on options that might seem unnecessary at the time of purchase. Through-tool, internal cooling is, in many cases, just such a machine feature shops might forego,...