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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...