CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2015 VOL. 154, NO. 2 c FEATURES
55 / NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR MACHINING OIL-FIELD PARTS
New technologies offer heavy-duty metal removal, reduced setup steps and fl exibility for the cyclical oil and gas business.
67 / WORKHOLDING INNOVATIONS FOR THE OIL PATCH
Large workpieces of threaded pipes or other oil-fi eld components can require taking a different workholding approach.
77 / KEEPING OIL PATCH GEARS TURNING
Strong, reliable gears keep the equipment turning and the oil fl owing.
SHOP SOLUTIONS
45 / DYNAMIC SOLUTION FOR SMALL OIL PARTS PRODUCTION
Shamrock Precision Inc. (Farmers Branch, TX) makes a specialty of manufactur- ing small precision parts—typically 2–9" (51–229-mm) long for downhole oil well applications.
51 / LASER TEXTURES MOLDS AS LARGE AS A FULL-SIZE CAR
Custom Etch Inc. (New Castle, PA), a 35-person shop, has specialized in chemical etching since 1982. In 2011, it invested in advanced fi ve-axis laser-texturing systems.
118 / HBA INSERTS ARE COST CUTTERS FOR HARD METALS
The family-owned Grand Traverse Machine (GTM; Traverse City, MI) specializes in high- precision manufacturing applications and has grown from a three-man operation in a 2000 ft2 ft2
(185-m2 (2694-m2 two shifts seven days a week.
89 / PRECISE, CLEAN, LIGHTWEIGHT JOINING WITH LASER WELDING
Laser welding is becoming the tool of choice in a number of applications, from automotive bodies-in-white to precision medical parts.
99 / NEVER OUT OF STYLE IN THE SHOP: CLASSIC LEAN TECHNIQUES
Rable Machine (Mansfi eld, OH) used basic common sense lean techniques to boost its sales and operations.
ON THE WEB
EXTRUSION AND DRAWING KNOWLEDGE
These two related, stalwart topics in material forming are covered from top of punch to bottom of die in more than 200 papers in the SME Technical Paper library. The range of contributors is broad, from companies like Alcoa and General Electric to universities in Japan, Germany and the US, as well as individual entrepreneur metalworking shops. More at
http://tinyurl.com/techfrontfeb
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AdvancedManufacturing.org | February 2015
) facility in 1966 to a 29,000 ) plant employing 70 people on
Cover: Turning face grooves on a G&L horizontal boring mill with integrated contouring head. The fracking segment has been interested in horizontal boring mills and horizontal machining centers equipped with Fives’ Integrated Contouring Head, which gives the shop the option to spin the tool on a mill instead of spinning the part on a lathe. Photo courtesy of Fives Giddings & Lewis
DEPARTMENTS
8 / UPFRONT Fill Up Your Tank—and Find a New Playbook 10 / CONNECT & ENGAGE
12 / ADVANCED MANUFACTURING NOW Radius Grinding Gets a B-Axis Boost
15 / SME SPEAKS New Year,
New Opportunities
19 / NEWSDESK Jobs Grab Spotlight in 2014
26 / SOFTWARE UPDATE The Value of Virtual Plant Monitoring
37 / TECH FRONT New Nanoscale Compounds for Better CNG Storage
104 / WEBSITE PROFILES 120 / HOUSTEX SHOW PREVIEW 132 / CLASSIFIEDS 133 / AD INDEX
134 / WORKFORCE PIPELINE Making the Future Through Collaborative Training
136 / VIEWPOINTS
Round Two for Reshoring: Meeting the Challenge
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