Higher productivity keeps shops profitable, but higher accuracy has made humanity richer. Since the first all-metal lathe was developed in the 1750s, increasing levels of accuracy have enabled incredible technological advancements, from the Industrial Revolution to...

Machine-tool runout stems from multiple causes, including fixturing, toolholders, cutting tools, machine tools themselves and unexpected intermittent sources. All these problems diminish surface finish, tool life and part tolerance. Finding the source of runout takes...

Everyone looks for savings on commodity items. If you can shop around to cut the cost of anything from a loaf of bread to a new car, you can hang on to more of your money. Apply the same penny-pinching philosophy to your ER collets, however, and you may be in for some...

For excellence and flexibility in traditional machining, today's REGO-FIX ER product line spans 16 separate categories. Along with standard ER toolholding – SK, BT, CAT, HSK and CAPTO – that suits most machining applications, we also offer cylindrical (CYL) options,...

REGO-FIX invented the ER collet in 1972 as a problem-solving improvement over then-current toolholding options. Since ER became a DIN standard in 1992, it has remained the world's most-used toolholding system. Other companies offer ER-compatible products, but REGO-FIX...

The push to get products to market as quickly as possible, along with an increasingly global and competitive manufacturing sector, continues to drive the development of machine tool spindles that can keep pace with customer demand. Today, high-speed spindles and...

It’s impossible to open a product brochure or attend employee orientation at even the smallest job shop without hearing the word “ergonomics.” The International Ergonomics Association (IEA) describes it as “derived from the Greek ergon (work) and nomos (laws) to...

In the late 1800s, the Swiss watchmaking industry began pioneering the development of lathes that could handle the miniscule parts required for smaller and smaller timepieces, an effort that led to the development of today’s Swiss-style CNC lathes. Also called “screw...

Total Indicator Runout (TIR), or the reference value of how much a tool moves (or wobbles) off center as it rotates, is measured by setting up a part so that it rotates about a particular axis, then measuring a surface of interest as the part is rotated. The...

REGO-FIX founder Fritz Weber grew up as the oldest child in a large family that lived in the Land of Precision, the watchmaking area of western Switzerland known as the Jura Arc. At a young age, he began to experiment with tool making on the lathe in his grandfather's...