The problem was mostly in the Z axis and was measured to be up to 0.3mm off position after 10cm of travel. This may not seem like a lot but it was enough to break a few 1mm diameter end mills.

Company Information: Protomatic, Inc. is a CNC precision machine shop specializing in CNC precision machining as well as prototype and short-run production. We are capable of 3, 4, and 5-axis ...

Machining centers vary by how much xyz travel is required. For example, 5-axis machining provides the ability to machine complex shapes, undercuts and difficult angles in a single setup, which can ...

It’s basically a standard – albeit large-format – three-axis CNC router with one axis wrapped into a cylinder. The pipe is slipped around a sacrificial mandrel and loaded into the machine ...

Tummond had a clear idea of what the replacement machines needed: five-axis milling machines with high rigidity and accuracy, plus the repeatability needed to maintain that accuracy over long ...

The shop uses cells consisting of infeed and outfeed parts conveyors, robots and vertical machining centers with fourth-axis rotary indexers. Within six months of installing two of these cells, they ...

We have acquired and introduced the first 7 Axis CNC machine in our facilities in H1FY25. We have significantly reduced the working capital cycle from 137 Days in H1FY24 to 106 Days in H1FY25.

Trace-A-Matic North, Brookfield, Wis., has increased its capacity with the installation of a Mazak Integrex E-500HN 5-axis ...

A strategic reorganization of the Georg Fischer group has landed its precision CNC machine business in the wide portfolio of ...

Newly developed milling kinematics on a linear axis enables versatile and efficient machining with up to 0.1-millimeter ...

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