Whether on Swiss and other turn/mill centers, drilling and tapping machines, or with milling attachments, shops are doing more milling with small spindles than ever before. That’s partly due to the ...

Modern machine tools continue to make technical advances, thanks in large part to ongoing improvements and fine-tuning in computer numerical control (CNC) machining. Over the past 60 years or so, CNC ...

The Icon 6-250 puts eight spindles and six cutting stations to work for high productivity jobs. Icon Technologies, a division of Hydromat Inc., has taken a fresh approach to production machining for ...

Each of the eight spindles is assigned two cross-slides that can travel on both the X- and Z- axes. Additionally, each cross-slide can be equipped with a Y-axis. Multi-spindle machine specialist Index ...

Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) is emerging as a streamlined communication technology for industrial automation, transmitting data and power over long distances, unifying systems and enhancing security.

Modern CNC machine tools work under increasingly diverse cutting conditions. They must handle workpieces of various sizes and materials, and produce good surface finishes while operating at ever ...

MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY. FRANK A. SCOTT, a Clevelander at the forefront of the machine tool industry during the early 1900s, once remarked that no metal could be available for modern uses until a ...