powRgrip Takes Off in Aerospace
Whether aerospace manufacturers machine components for commercial, defense or space projects, they face a number of similar challenges. Reducing costs, getting the most from their tools, eliminating tool runout and pullout and shortening setup and cycle times are all...
Tolerances and Materials Generate Aerospace Manufacturing Headwinds
Higher complexity parts with tighter tolerances along with new and unique materials like composites (thermosets/thermoplastics), sandwiched/stacked materials and others continue to challenge aerospace manufacturers. As manufacturers incorporate advanced machining...
Making Sure Toolholders Stack Up for Long-reach Applications
Engineers continue to design increasingly, intricate and complex parts in an effort to combine multiple parts into one component, thus eliminating secondary assembly processes. In many cases, shops producing those parts are faced with long-reach machining applications...
May the Drawbar Force Be With You
As important as a rigid tool-to-toolholder interface is for optimum machining so too is the clamping force of a machine tool’s spindle drawbar on the toolholder. Many times overlooked or neglected until it’s too late, drawbar pull-force performance should be checked...
Are Shops Shying Away from Shrinkfit?
We, as a global tooling supplier, interact with countless numbers of shops on a daily basis, and lately, many of them have voiced growing concerns centered around safety. These concerns stem from the fact that in tight labor markets, they are forced to hire lesser...
New Single powRgrip Unit Packs a Multitude of Benefits
Like the other members of the powRgrip family of toolholding systems, the new powRgrip Single is easy to use and provides fast, efficient and safe operation. It’s also smaller in size and manufactured with Swiss precision that ensures strong and stable gripping for...
5 Ways We Live Up to Swiss Machining Precision
If your work requires part tolerances that are measured in nanometers and you turn to Swiss machining to get the job done, when you say you need the highest “precision” you mean it. If you are like us, you might even get annoyed when someone else uses the word...
A Little Bit Of Coolant Goes A Long Way
Because of economic and environmental issues, an increasing number of manufacturers are gravitating towards minimal quantity lubrication (MQL) in their metalcutting operations. MQL does not require the complex circulation, filtration and testing systems required with...
Get an Edge On Better Machine Setups
Determining edge and feature locations of a workpiece is critical to proper machine setup. In fact, little else matters in terms of machining parameters if the cutting tool doesn’t know exactly where to start. In a best-case scenario, the result might be an...
Time to Change Your Toolholders If You Consider Them Consumables
Because some toolholding systems have very limited working life cycles, many shops consider them consumables, a mindset that translates into increased job costs. Additionally, such systems are too involved and require significant user training to avoid accidents as...
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REGO-FIX Aligns Leadership with Company Growth
WHITESTOWN, Ind., January 6, 2025 – With the recent expansion and opening of its Center for Machining Excellence, manufacturer of Swiss-precision tooling technologies REGO-FIX has aligned its leadership team with the continued growth of the company’s North America...