Engineering Safety (Part Two) December 14, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments To an engineer there are no accidents, only unanticipated consequences of situations that need to be better understood. We even have a rule about i...Read More
Forest City Gear Expands Small Diameter ID/OD Grinding Capability December 13, 2017 Forest City Gear has expanded its capabilities for the hard finishing of smaller diameter gears with particularly tight ID and length tol...Read More
Engineering Safety (Part One) December 12, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Watching the movie Deepwater Horizon got me thinking about current attitudes on workplace safety. (Full disclosure — I am a bit of a cr...Read More
The Future of Books December 6, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Moving required getting rid of lots of books. My much better half is also a reader and we made about a dozen trips to the resale shop to put our su...Read More
Slater Tools Indexable Punch Broach Tooling Offers Simple Setup to Machine Numerous Shapes on Presses and CNC Machines November 30, 2017 Slater Tools announces its range of indexable punch broaches and holders to machine shapes in workpieces where rotary broaching may not b...Read More
Still Pumped About Herringbones November 30, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments I rambled on about herringbone gear in my last posting but still have more to share on these once commonplace gears. Today we’ll cover the use of c...Read More
Mitutoyo Quick Image CNC 2D Vision Measuring System Introduces New Models with Moving Stage November 29, 2017 Mitutoyo America Corporation announced the release of the Quick Image CNC (QI-C), the latest addition in the Quick Image Series of 2D vis...Read More
Herringbones 102 November 16, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Imagine for a moment that your boss invented the herringbone tooth form and tasked you with building machines to cut them. This was the situation P...Read More
Koepfer America TM200 R3 Gear Deburring Machine Offers Automatic Loading November 10, 2017 As automation continues to transform the manufacturing industry, gear deburring often remains an operation performed by hand. This burden...Read More
Gleason 410SCG Shaving Cutter Grinding Machine Speeds Up Shaving Cutter Re-Sharpening November 8, 2017 Gleason is meeting the global need for fast, high quality re-sharpening of shaving cutters up to 400 mm in diameter and Module 14 with th...Read More