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other industry, oil & gas is looking to make parts faster, with less scrap, less human intervention, as much automation as they possibly could get,” said Larry Robbins, vice president, sales and mar- keting, SMW Autoblok (Wheeling, IL).
Leak-Proof
The redesigned Kitagawa Automated Jaw Pallet System is a fl exible automation system that allows a robot to change the workholding and continue machining a new part without stopping.
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Premium Threads Finding more-effi cient methods for thread- ing pipes, couplings, and many other metal components used in oil production and transport
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is an important trend in the industry. Threads for the oil & gas industry use an unconventional thread geometry, called Premium Thread, noted Kevin Bennett, CPM, senior business consul- tant, Kitagawa-NorthTech Inc. (Scha- umburg, IL). Many oil-fi eld customers need highly-specifi c, engineered solutions for workholding used in the manu- facture of fracking components or forgings, including the threaded pipes and couplings used on both land- and ocean-based drill rigs, Bennett said. “It’s everything from specialized fi xtures for fracking components to specialized rotational workholding, engineered turning workholding for valves, valve bodies.
“Some of the key technical trends in workholding of interest to users in oil & gas are the modular fi xturing for milling and turning components such as drillheads,” Bennett said. “Our line of UPR Rapidstroke large-bore air chucks are specifi c to the premium threading of pipe and coupling that goes down
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