Manufacturing is a lengthy process with numerous steps involved. If you are into healthcare, defense, aerospace, marine, oil, gas, or transportation, you must be familiar with the amount of effort it ...

Alfing Corp. (www.alfing.com) has introduced its new AL-series multi-spindle 5-axis machining center concept designed especially for machining complex, light-metal parts in medium to high volumes. The ...

Wire electric discharge machining (WEDM) shapes high-strength components by removing material through controlled thermal erosion. A recent study optimized WEDM parameters for AISI 1045 medium carbon ...

A wheel brush is usually the right approach for a job that calls for surface finishing, cleaning, polishing, deburring, edge blending or removal of paint, rust or other contamination. These are a type ...

[Applied Science] wanted to make some metal parts with a lot of holes. A service provider charged high tooling costs, so he decided to create his own parts using photochemical machining. The process ...

Editor's Note: An updated version of this information can be found here. What exactly is computer-numerical-controlled (CNC) machining? It’s a means to make parts by removing material via high-speed, ...

In sheet-metal fabrication, parts are formed from metal sheets by punching, cutting, stamping, and bending. 3D CAD files are created using a host of different CAD packages and then converted into ...

Billet and forged parts might share the same material DNA, but the way they're made determines their performance under ...

A Bengaluru-based company has developed a metal 3D printing system that can mass-produce high-precision metal parts at nearly half the cost and in a fraction of the time taken by existing machines.