What is workholding and why is it important? Workholding is how stock is held during operations on CNC mills and lathes. Unlike in CAD, parts don’t just float in 3D space. Something needs to grab onto ...

HWR WORKHOLDING USA announced multiple additions to its SOLIDLine family of zero-point workholding. Available immediately, the new products include SOLIDGrip MAXX for large workpieces; SOLIDBolt FLEXX ...

Rotating components, like shafts, and the supporting features like bearing housings, are good examples of features that must ...

Facing increasing competition from lower-cost imports, Suburban Tool made a move toward large-scale, in-house machining — a ...

One test, for example, uses a water-brake dynamometer to measure engine ... Now, between the DWO and the Vero-S vise — a modular workholding system from Schunk that boasts a repeat accuracy less that ...

One of the examples they cut would be difficult to hold without damage or stopping the machine. The accepted wisdom is that superglue holds well to a slightly porous surface like tape, but it ...

Hardinge Inc., a Horseheads-based provider of advanced machine tool, manufacturing, and workholding solutions, has announced it successfully completed transactions to sell substantially all of the ...

A z-axis stage as part of a material handling gantry operation. Stages designed for optical and nano-positioning are much smaller and more precise than this example. Like all linear stages, z-axis ...

Some of the content is a bit dated — the computer section talks about magnetic core and bubble memory, for example, even though the latest revision we know of was in 1998. Of course, there are ...

Vise jaws may also meet specific quality standards for materials. For example, some metal vise jaws conform to steel standards from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) or the American ...