As live tooling becomes more popular for CNC turning centers, the use of tooling with sealed bearings is becoming a challenge for shops that produce components in high volumes, or with lengthy cycle ...

Manufacturers commonly buy CNCs because these flexible machines promise to replace several manual machines and dramatically improve the capabilities and efficiency of the production shop. This ...

Eppinger developed its new lathe toolholding system with live-tooling in mind. Eppinger GmbH is one shop that cashed in on the advanced capabilities of today’s turning machines. The tooling company ...

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), ...

Now that 3D printers are everywhere, electronics are cheap, and open source software is extremely capable, just about anyone can build a CNC machine. That’s exactly what [Nikodem] did by turning a ...