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Aerospace

10 Tips for Titanium

Simple process considerations can increase your productivity in milling titanium alloys.

Peter Zelinski
Editorial Director, Modern Machine Shop

Turn/Mill

"Crazy" Tools from Mikron Expand Capabilities

Despite past challenges of the pandemic, Mikron Tool's R&D department runs at full speed, developing efficient machining of demanding materials in the micron range.

Aerospace

Quintus Introduces High-Pressure Warm Forming for Titanium

Quintus Technologies introduces its new process for forming Ti-6Al-4V parts.

Aerospace

For Titanium, Tool Monitoring Smooths Low-rpm Cuts

Caron Engineering’s TMAC MP has been putting tool monitoring to work for years, but its “sawtooth algorithm” now meets a specific challenge in airplane engine machining.

Additive Manufacturing

Arcing away from Near-Net Forging

An electrical arc process joins a field of additive manufacturing technologies that could one day provide aerospace manufacturers with alternatives to near-net-shape forgings.

Cutting Tools

Horn Continues Growth Path

The company highlighted its facility expansions and new cutting tool technologies during a recent open house at its global headquarters in Tübingen, Germany.

Milling Tools

Ultrasonic Technology Poised for Advance into General Machining

Formerly applied only to exotic materials such as ceramics and gemstones, ultrasonic machining has been adapted to more general manufacturing. Titanium and CFRP are two workpiece materials in which the counterintuitive technology shows promise.

Aerospace

How to Turn Machine Shop Downtime Into Process Expertise

To take advantage of a lull in business, JR Machine devised a week-long cutting tool event that elevated the shop’s capabilities with aerospace alloys.

Peter Zelinski
Editorial Director, Modern Machine Shop

Cabinet Oven Heat Treats Titanium

Grieve’s No. 965 is a 1,350°F, electrically-heated cabinet oven for heat treating titanium parts.

Holemaking

Video: High-Torque Titanium Hogging

Judging from the results of this machining test, the T-Rex horizontal boring machine (HBM) spindle is aptly named.

Measurement

Okuma Hosts 400 at Annual Technology Showcase

The event’s theme focused on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

CAD/CAM

Constant-Chip-Load Machining Yields a Better Tool Path

With its in-house R&D program, this aerospace shop seeks to be a leader, not a follower, on the path to innovation in advanced manufacturing. Finding and embracing a better way to generate tool paths for highly efficient and economical metal removal is a prime example of the value of this program.

Turn/Mill

The Benefits of Horizontal Turning on a Mill-Turn Machine

A mill-turn machine that can rotate a large, bell-shaped workpiece in a horizontal orientation enabled this manufacturer to hit tight tolerance and cost targets. Minimizing non-value-added time and running lights out were also essential for success.

Aerospace

A Practical Approach to Milling Titanium

When the right cutting tool, toolholder, cutter paths and machining parameters are applied intelligently, a shop may have more capability to mill titanium effectively than it recognizes.

Milling Tools

Ceramic End Mill Achieves Long Life and High MRR at Standard Machining Center Speeds

Material advances have produced a ceramic end mill that performs well at lower cutting speeds and competes with carbide in a broad range of applications. Your shop might begin using ceramic tools.

Peter Zelinski
Editorial Director, Modern Machine Shop

Aerospace

Profiler Expected to Exceed 100 Cubic Inches per Minute in Titanium

Five-axis, five-spindle machine aims at reduced cost per piece for production of large aircraft components.

Aerospace

Video: Quiet Heavy Milling of Titanium

During test cutting with a new tool-and-toolholder combination for titanium, this video was shot to record the sound (or lack of sound) from a deep milling pass.

Milling Tools

Eliminating Tool Pullout in Titanium Milling

Toolholder employs a secondary locking system to counter the high axial cutting forces encountered during the development of a tool for high-metal-removal-rate milling of titanium.

Holemaking

What’s Best for Boring Titanium?

In a joint research effort, Kaiser Precision Tooling and Blaser Swisslube searched for a combination of metalworking fluid and indexable insert that show the best results when boring titanium. The results underscore the importance of controlling vibration, friction and heat.

Aerospace

Why Not Start With Waterjet?

In titanium, significant savings and process efficiency can result from the simple fact that abrasive waterjet cutting leaves the remaining stock intact.

Five-Axis

Taking Titanium Seriously

Does titanium justify a machine that is engineered for this metal?

Horizontal Machining Centers

Starrag Tech Days Highlight Turbine Technology Applications

A visit to Starrag headquarters in Roschacherberg, Switzerland during the company's 2018 technology days revealed new equipment, tools, technologies and machining strategies for turbine manufacturing.

Barbara Schulz
European Correspondent, Gardner Business Media

Laser & Waterjet

Leveraging Laser Technology

Bruce Boone says laser technology enables him to make specialized rings from titanium and other materials that his competitors can’t offer.

Aerospace

Event Highlights Solutions for Aero Structural Parts

The thin walls and deep pockets common to structural aerospace parts make machining challenging. A recent event at Makino’s U.S. headquarters highlighted solutions for effectively machining such tricky aluminum and titanium components.

Turn/Mill

The Big Step Up

A small shop added two new machines, each of which is more advanced than any of the previous machine tools the company has used. One of the co-owners committed to the work of bringing both of these machines fully into service. Here is the shop’s experience so far.

CAD/CAM

Savings from Sustainability

A project aimed at energy-efficient machining delivered production efficiencies, too.

Workholding

Consistency Is Key to Titanium

An important part of this shop’s successful approach to titanium machining is a toolpath strategy that keeps the load on the cutter constant. Another important element is the way this shop captures and reapplies what it learns about how effective it can be in this metal.

Vertical Machining Centers

90 Cubic Inches Per Minute in Titanium

Mag says its XTi super profiler is designed to remove metal at impressive rates. Its first two machines are are being used for aerospace applications.

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