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Allied Machine Adds Online Product Selector
Shops now have more information they need to make the best holemaking tool purchases possible.
Welding & Fabrication Catalog
Weiler’s new catalog is available in both print and online versions and features the new Tiger X flap disc.
CARVEsmart Enters Agreement with Orange Vise
CARVEsmart dovetail and clamp features are machined directly into the Orange IJS vise, eliminating the need for master jaws.
Sandvik Coromant Acquires Prometec
This deal expands their digital capabilities in machining applications.
Sandvik Coromant Appoints New President of the Americas
Sean Holt assumes responsibilities as head of the Americas organization.
Innovations in Workholding
Workholding must be updated to make full use of the small lot flexibility that machine tools now offer so that the same part cost can be achieved in much shorter production runs. Here are some of the latest advances in workholding technology for shops to consider.
Versatile Workholding Workhorses
Versatile Stallion Hybrid trunnions from TrunnionTable.com accommodate a variety of vises, fixtures, 3-jaw and 4-jaw chucks and collet chucks for flexible job shop workholding.
The Freedom of Magnetic Workholding
MagVISE workholding chucks from Techniks are used for face milling, edge milling, drilling, and even boring operations on all four sides and the top of thick or thin workpieces.
Mix and Match Modular Clamping
SnakeClamp workholding systems are used in medical, aerospace, automotive and other applications.
Synthetic Gripper for Complex, Sensitive Workpieces
The RRMG Synthetic Gripper 3 from Röhm uses free-form surfaces that adapt to different workpieces geometries, whether they be round or prismatic in shape.
Universal Multi-Functional Vacuum System
The Multi-Power Vac workholding system from Mitee-Bite can hold one to four small parts or one large part for machining.
Full Grip Jaws Minimize Distortion for Thin-Walled Parts
Aluminum full grip jaws from Dillon are ideal for machining thin-walled valves, cylinders, specialty wheels and gears, housings and enclosures, adaptors and connectors, aluminum and steel shells, flanges, retainer rings, smog control air pump rotors, gas turbine parts, thin-wall tubing, cylinder liners for diesel engines and more.
