Researchers have demonstrated a new bilayer ceramic coating to extend the service life of tools needed in the machining of ...

Manufacturers of tooling for CNC routers offer a bewildering array of choices. Once you get past basic issues like choosing upcut (maximum chip evacuation), downcut (clean top surface edge), ...

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A breakthrough in coating technology has resulted in a physical vapor deposition (PVD) aluminum oxide (Al2O3) coating for difficult-to-machine materials with the thermal resistance of traditional ...

Typical physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) hard coatings are 20 times thinner than a human hair, yet they can drastically improve performance, boost reliability, and extend service lives of tool and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Chinese chipmaking tools vendor Kingsemi launched a new generation of its wafer coating and ...

MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY. FRANK A. SCOTT, a Clevelander at the forefront of the machine tool industry during the early 1900s, once remarked that no metal could be available for modern uses until a ...

Temperature-sensitive parts that can't stand a lot of heat are now fair game for high-performance coatings. Vapor-deposition processes let designers apply finishes that are both functional and ...

University of Sheffield researchers developed a machine learning framework to improve coating properties in a roll-to-roll slot die coating process. The work is seen as an initial step toward broader ...