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DECEMBER 2013 VOL. 151, NO. 6 FEATURES


47 | Boring is a Good Way to Go Large boring mills with advanced contouring head technology and multitasking mill turns (or turn mills) with advanced programming and cutting tool technology are being tasked to produce a wide range of traditional workpieces. To the familiar pump housings, valves, and blowout preventers, you might also want to add large gears as they emerge from being strictly a niche machined product to one readily produced on multi-tasking, five-axis machining centers.


57 | Getting the Most Out of Your


Automation Purchase Ask any buyer of manufacturing automation what’s most important in purchasing new equipment and you’ll get a laundry list of requirements. But for many buyers, the ultimate decision often comes down to the bottom line: how much the system costs up front and how fast they can expect to get a return on that investment.


ON THE WEB


Rotary Broaching: Getting More from Your Shop Floor


A fast and efficient machining method, rotary broaching is used for making squares, hexes, splines, serrations, keyways, Torx-type and a range of many other internal and external polygon shapes on a workpiece. View at www.sme.org/slatertools


Watercutting in Wartime


The US Marine Corps recently added advanced abrasive waterjet technology to its on-site metalworking arsenal. Abrasive waterjet machines precisely cut a wide range of materials of various thicknesses, from advanced composites to exotic alloys to traditional metals, while generating no heat and providing a cut edge smooth enough for immediate use in many situations. View at http://tinyurl.com/wartimewaterjets


One Ring to Rule Them All Weiss develops a heavy-duty ring table with a large center opening to achieve robotic production efficiencies. View at http://tinyurl.com/smeweiss


The Cover: The process of cutting slots in rotors weighing up to 32 t was slashed to a total of 60 hours using the mpmc 1200 multi-product machining center from Weingärtner Maschinenbau (Kirchham, Austria).


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DEPARTMENTS 6 UPFRONT


Where Have all the 3D Dreamers Gone? 8


CALENDAR 10 QUALITY SCAN


The Usefulness of Air Gaging 13 SME SPEAKS


Moving SME & Manufacturing Forward 17 NEWSDESK


NAMII Rebrands as “America Makes”


26 SOFTWARE UPDATE Touch-Based Software with Built-In CAD Helps Shops Simplify Metrology Tasks


29 TECH FRONT


DOE Grant Funds Research to Improve Nanoscale Additive Manufacturing


37 SHOP SOLUTIONS Smart Honing Delivers Tight Pump Tolerances


70 PRODUCT PREVIEWS 76 CLASSIFIEDS 77 AD INDEX


78 FOCUS ON THE WORKFORCE Training Tomorrow’s Energy Engineers 80 VIEWPOINTS


High-Efficiency Production in the Smallest Spaces


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