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A beginner's guide to Jig Boring Machine
Jig Boring Machine is a machine built to position holes accurately, with a thermally stable structure and precision scales It is used for hole patterns where the position between holes matters more than the hole size. Ty
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A beginner's guide to Cylindrical Grinding Machine
Cylindrical Grinding Machine is a machine that finishes external and internal diameters with a rotating wheel and a rotating workpiece It is used for holding diameter tolerance and roundness on shafts, pins and bores aft
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A beginner's guide to Sinker EDM Machine
Sinker EDM Machine is a machine that forms a cavity by sparking a shaped electrode into the workpiece under dielectric fluid It is used for blind cavities, sharp corners, deep ribs and textured mould surfaces. Typical va
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A beginner's guide to Vertical Machining Centre
Vertical Machining Centre is a milling machine with a vertical spindle and an automatic tool changer, run from a single programme It is used for batch work on prismatic parts where several operations have to run without
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A beginner's guide to Horizontal Machining Centre
Horizontal Machining Centre is a milling machine with a horizontal spindle and a rotary table, usually with pallet exchange It is used for parts that need work on several faces in one setup, and for unattended running. T
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A beginner's guide to 5-Axis Machining Centre
5-Axis Machining Centre is a machining centre that can orient the cutter or the workpiece on two additional rotary axes It is used for parts with compound angles, deep cavities and features that would otherwise need seve
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PPAP Submission in a production cell: cycle time and capacity
PPAP Submission is the production part approval process used in the automotive supply chain, at four levels of evidence It is used for proving that a production process can make the part repeatedly, before series supply
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A beginner's guide to CNC Lathe
CNC Lathe is a machine that turns the workpiece against a single point tool to produce cylindrical forms It is used for shafts, bushings, flanges and any part whose main features are diameters. Typical values: swing over
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A beginner's guide to Swiss-Type Lathe
Swiss-Type Lathe is a sliding headstock lathe where the bar is supported close to the cutting point by a guide bushing It is used for long, slender turned parts where the length to diameter ratio defeats a conventional l
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A beginner's guide to Wire EDM Machine
Wire EDM Machine is a machine that cuts conductive material with a travelling brass wire in deionised water, by spark erosion It is used for internal profiles, sharp internal corners and hardened parts that cannot be mil
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