Five-Axis

Five-Axis 15 Mar 2003

Winning The Door Prize

The accuracy of this shop's five-axis gantry-type profiler helped it land the job of machining the engine-bay doors for the F/A-22.

High-Speed Machining 15 Dec 2002

High Speed Machining, Italian Style

One of the highlights of BI-MU, Italy's recent biennial machine tool show, was the number of innovative machine tools (and related technology) focusing on high speed machining.

Five-Axis 15 Oct 2002

Manufacturer Slices Cycle Time 80 Percent

Most of this company's work is machined to tight tolerances and super-high finishes. It builds, assembles, tests and then ships a complete product. The many multi-faceted parts being machined typically required several setups on different machines, often with cumbersome pallet and indexing devices.

Five-Axis 15 Jul 2002

Software And Five-Axis Machining Center Provide Speed And Efficiency

Mold maker A.F. Gaskin (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) has customers who operate in fiercely competitive international markets, including Formula 1, and measure performance on the ability to deliver quality products in the shortest possible time.

Five-Axis 15 Jun 2002

New Contours Of Competition

Toronto aerospace shops improve productivity with faster five-axis machining centers.

Basics 15 Apr 2002

Empowering The Programmer

A project aimed at making military aircraft parts faster shows just how much productivity gain can come from automating the programmer's repetitive tasks.

Five-Axis 15 Jan 2002

Manufacturer Halves Cycle Times With Machining Center

The complex shapes of the iron castings that make up the housings for this company's flow meters require machining on multiple faces. The castings undergo various types of machining operations, from drilling to helical thread milling.

Five-Axis 15 Dec 2001

High Speed In Simultaneous Five-Axis Machining

In mold and die work, simultaneous five-axis machining is a proven technology, as is high speed machining (HSM). High speed simultaneous five-axis machining, however, is still a pioneering development.

High-Speed Machining 15 Jul 2001

Going Beyond Three-Axis Milling

In its quest for greater moldmaking efficiency, this shop added fourth- and fifth-axis positioning mills and is about to buy its first continuous five-axis mill.

Aerospace 15 May 2001

Process Reduces Cycle Time For Aircraft Blade Refurbishment

The refurbishment of aircraft engine turbine blades is important to aircraft owners and operators because of the high original cost of the component.