According to Halesowen-based repetition turned parts specialist BMI Engineering, significant productivity, quality and efficiency benefits have arisen since the introduction of tooling supplied by Horn Cutting Tools. ...

Titanium provides highly desirable mechanical properties to aircraft design and manufacturing such as relatively lightweight structure, with excellent rigidity, strength, heat and fatigue resistance. Effectively, titanium parts are stronger than their steel......

The manufacturing world today is all about supply chains with companies having to make difficult ‘make or buy’ decisions regarding products and processes on a daily basis. Imagine then not having to make those choices because everything you need is on tap......

Key to a manufacturing company’s survival during an economic downturn is making the most of available resources. Global tooling solutions provider Seco has recognised this fact and has spent the last few months on the road with its Cost Reduction Roadshow,......

The use of fluids during machining serves several functions, such as effective lubrication and cooling at the tool/workpiece interface, as well as effective flushing of the chips. However dry or near dry machining in certain applications is proving to be a viable......

As a result of LMT UK’s milling advice, precision aerospace, marine, defence and specialist automotive tooling contractor Brinksway Tool reviewed its pocket milling strategies in the production of formers for composite panels – and claims it was able to......

The successful machining of aluminium components used in aerospace applications requires a number of different tool criteria to be fulfilled in order to meet increasingly stringent cost and quality demands. Solutions investigates. Until now, many of the router type......