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GenSwiss Quick-Change Toolholder Adapter for Fast Setups, Tool Changes
Improved quick-change toolholding system for CNC swiss machines and precision CNC equipment feature toolholder adaptors and quick-change modules that can be preset.
Advancements in Thread Whirling Tooling Technology
Many understand the advantages of thread whirling on a CNC Swiss-type. However, new tooling technology for this thread-machining process can further improve cycle times and reduce cost per part.
Hexagonal Rotary Broach Tools Engineered for Medical Parts
Eastec 2019: Swiss-type tooling provider GenSwiss is releasing a line of hexagonal rotary broach tools, each of which features a dished cutting face and vent holes for relieving hydraulic pressure.
Learn to Improve Production on Swiss-Types, Hybrids at PMTS
The PMTS 2019 schedule includes a Tech Talk about improving businesses by using the right tools on Swiss-type machines and a showfloor demo of a hybrid machine.
GenSwiss Rotary Broach Tool Series Provides High-Performance Cutting
PMTS 2019: GenSwiss’ Signature Series rotary broach tools are designed to deliver high-performance cutting.
VIDEOS: Tips for Screw Making on Swiss-Type Machines
Here’s a three-part video series focused on Swiss screw making to help explain the benefits of thread whirling, back turning and broaching while taking into consideration CAM programming, tooling and machine specifications.
Accessories for Swiss Make a Big Difference
We recently published an article that revisited the state of the art in Swiss-type accessories. Often, these are at the heart of the successful application of Swiss machining because they allow for various applications.
New Accessories Improve Swiss Machine Performance
The sliding headstock machine design is well over a century old. Yet it continues to be renewed with developments in the application and performance of accessories within the machine.
Calculating Surface Footage and RPM for Optimum Tool Life
Tech Brief: Calculating Surface Footage and RPM for Optimum Tool Life
GenSwiss Partners with Swiss Tooling Maker
GenSwiss parnters with Louis Bélet SA, which has heritage as a supplier to the Swiss watch industry.
Turbocharge Swiss-Type Turning with Accessories
Adding accessories to the already capable Swiss-type turning center is a cost effective method of increasing production efficiency.
Grooving Tools as Fine as a Strand of Hair
Imagine being able to cut grooves to the thickness of a human hair (0.0019 inch). It’s hard to picture, but when you see for yourself micro-medical devices, dental implants and micro-electronic components that feature micro grooves, you realize that indeed micro grooving tools are necessary.
Attain Consistent Roundness and Concentricity Readings
The CNC Swiss-type lathe is finding an increasingly large market as non-traditional Swiss shops find its production advantages for small, precise and complex workpieces.
Offset-Style Swiss Toolholders Clear Up Clearance Issues
It’s no secret a Swiss-type machine’s tooling zone is a busy place where space utilization is critical.
CNC Swiss Delivers in Many Ways
Designed to efficiently process long, slender parts for the watch industry, the Swiss-type screw machine has evolved well beyond its original application niche.
July PM News
Grand Opening Showcases HeadquartersBIG Kaiser Precision Tooling welcomed customers and partners to its new headquarters’ grand opening on April 29-30.
Double-Sided Turning Inserts
The Utilis Multidec 3000 series double-sided turning inserts are said to provide long life and repeatability to 0. 0004" for cutoff, front and back turn, groove and turn and threading work. The holder features a recessed pocket for precise locating, increased insert rigidity and absorbed cutting forces, making the series especially useful for a range of tough applications, the company says.
Swiss-Type Machines: More Than Just a Lathe
CNC Swiss-Type machines have more capability built in than ever before. Many of these capabilites can be accessed using attachments that increase the throughput of the machine tool, improve the quality of the work coming off the machine and reduce or eliminate the need for secondary operations even for very complex workpieces.
Rotary Broaching 101
There continues to be new ways of driving fasteners into the materials they are intended to hold together.
High Productivity is No Accident
Economists and other observers of manufacturing have reported with glee the recent dramatic productivity increases for U.S. manufacturing. This aggregate view of productivity is only possible because of the productivity increases made in individual shops. Here’s an example of one such shop.