Optimizing tooling on Northeast Tire’s new 4-axis Alzmetall machine reduced time to machine nine 2-in. pockets on the mold container from six hours to 34 minutes. Northeast Tire Mold in Akron, Ohio ...

Differences abound between traditional rack and pinion twin drives, split-pinion-based designs, and roller-pinion systems. Tony Kliber • Lead Project Engineer • Precision Automation Components • Nexen ...

The grinding machine contains one encoder per motor, with one motor per robot axis and absolute inductive rotary encoders with 18-bit resolution for the robot's axis drives. Technological advances in ...

At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, supply chain disruptions caused shortages that left many essential workers without personal protective equipment, stores with empty shelves and long delays ...

For many shops, the addition of new metalcutting technology is all about buying machine tools, with cutting tools, toolholding, and workholding dealt with as afterthoughts. But such a strategy ...

MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY. FRANK A. SCOTT, a Clevelander at the forefront of the machine tool industry during the early 1900s, once remarked that no metal could be available for modern uses until a ...