The Icon 6-250 puts eight spindles and six cutting stations to work for high productivity jobs. Icon Technologies, a division of Hydromat Inc., has taken a fresh approach to production machining for ...

For the benefit of our readers, what is the principle of Aerostatic bearings, and how do they compare to roller-element or oil hydrostatic bearings? There are two types of aerostatic bearings, inlet ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE Bryan Machine Service’s VRT high-speed ...

Modern milling machines look much the same as they did 30 years ago. However, they now must cut superalloys, titanium, and high-tensile steels to closer tolerances and at faster rates than before. To ...

Modern machine tools continue to make technical advances, thanks in large part to ongoing improvements and fine-tuning in computer numerical control (CNC) machining. Over the past 60 years or so, CNC ...

Ralf Dupont, President at Levicron GmbH, talks to AZoM about how Levicron's air bearing spindles are bridging the gap between conventional machining and ultra-precision machining. Could you provide ...

While cheap hobby CNC mills and routers are great machines that allow you to build things a 3D printer just can’t handle, they do have their limitations. They’re usually powered by a Dremel or other ...

, including high-speed hybrid ceramic bearings to meet machining requirements. The hybrid bearings minimize heat generation and improve seizure resistance to allow speeds of 2,000,000 DmN and higher ...

The latest episode “Made in the USA” podcast explores a company that uses collaborative robots, one of the key tools helping US machine shops and other manufacturers compete with lower cost countries ...

As more customers seek one-stop shopping for their metal fabrications, more job shops are adding machining capabilities.