PrecisionPlus VP of Engineering, Mike P. Reader, with one of the company’s cam-actuated Swiss lathes. Precision Plus is not your typical machine shop. Founded as a cam-type Swiss screw machine shop 40 ...
Lathes are complicated machines, and buying one requires weighing a lot of options. We’ve already talked about buying new Asian, or old American machines (with apologies to the Germans, British, Swiss ...
The primary reason a shop invests in a Swiss-type turning machine is to produce parts at high volumes. However, whether a Swiss-type machine is producing at high enough volumes to be profitable ...
From textile roots to precision machining, Ketchie is a third-generation manufacturer that has leveraged Mastercam CAD/CAM software and Mazak technology to streamline operations, reduce cycle times ...
At Cougar Tool Manufacturing, an operator sets the position of tooling before running his program, using patented handwheel controls. The part is a 4330 VMod piston sub. The OD on this new part will ...
To attract and assist outstanding experimentalists and hands-on undergraduate and graduate students, the physics department maintains a dedicated machine shop to support the research and teaching ...