As GOP candidates continue to attack one another and the President on the economy, manufacturers across the country as still searching for answers on job creation. According to MFGpartners.net, the American Machine Shops Network is a company that understands what manufacturers really need as evident of its latest offerings from Louisiana Machine Shops at http://mfgpartners.net/category/louisiana-shops/. The site, according to AMSN includes offerings for a broad array of precision CNC machined parts, fabricated metal parts, small machined parts, metal fabricated products and other quality metal fabrication and machining solutions for companies in New Orleans, Kenner, New Iberia, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, Bossier City, Alexandria, Lafayette, Monroe, Shreveport and other cities across the Pelican State.

U.S. and international companies sourcing Precision CNC Machined Parts are able to get fast quotations usually within 24 hours from 5 to 10 or more US-based machine shops, specialty job shops and other suppliers approved by AMSN at http://mfgpartners.net/precision-cnc-machined-parts

Manufacturers of Fabricated Metal Parts and Machining Companies are finding work on MFGpartners.net according to an article on the company’s website at http://mfgpartners.net/fabricated-metal-parts

Dean Wood, spokesperson for the American Machine Shops Network said the company recently redesigned and reformatted its custom manufacturing marketplace which is hosted at MFGmatch.net to focus on offerings of made-to-order parts for establishments, engineers and various organizations in specific states. Wood said by changing its marketing approach to focus on states rather than general categories AMSN is better able to serve its users as well as the entire manufacturing community that utilizes the marketplace to buy and sell a wide range of machining, fabrication and other specialty services for virtually every application and industry.

“The goal of AMSN is to help Louisiana machine shops and other U.S. manufacturers across the country find companies in need of quality metal fabrication services, metal fabricated products, small machined parts, CNC machining, fabricated metal parts, rapid prototyping, milling & turning, precision CNC machined parts and components made from stainless steel, carbon & alloy steel, copper, brass, titanium, Monel® and other metals as well as all types of plastics,” said Wood. He concluded, “MFGpartners.net welcomes those looking for quality custom manufacturing solutions to meet vendors serving Shreveport, Monroe, Lafayette, Alexandria, Bossier City, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, New Iberia, Kenner, New Orleans and other areas of the Bayou State and all over the nation.” Wood went on to say “when it comes to job creation the solution is and has always been forward-thinking business owners and inspiring entrepreneurs that have made this country the best in the world.”

About MFGpartners

MFGpartners.net is home of the American Machine Shops Network (AMSN). The company specializes in promoting US-based manufacturers of machined parts and components as well as other custom manufacturers. AMSN is designed to help companies, inventors, engineers and others find the most suitable machine shop offering a variety of CNC machining, fabrication, prototyping, foundry casting and other contract manufacturing solutions. AMSN also owns MFGmatch.net, the leading custom manufacturing marketplace.

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Kurt’s HDM690 vise enables the precision clamping of very large parts for tool and die, and production CNC applications.

Featuring a full 9in jaw opening, the vise clamps larger parts with repeatable 0.0007in accuracy and minimal stationary jaw deflection.

Designed with a rigid stationary jaw, the vise features top-down bolting and a tall body design to reduce deflection.

High-precision roller bearings and a hardened vise screw mechanism enhance precision clamping and guarantee a smooth operation.

The design distributes up to 6,000lbs of clamping force evenly and precisely across the full jaw surface.

Kurt’s Anglock spherical segment in the moveable jaw further reduces jaw lift.

The pull-type body design stabilises stress in the vise body, resulting in the more accurate clamping of all types of parts.

Adding to overall vise rigidity while absorbing machining vibration, Kurt HDM690 vises have 80,000PSI ductile iron bodies with precision-machined components.

Setup features include: stationary jaw bolts down from top; no need to remove from table to disassemble vise; bolting the stationary from the top reduces the stress in the body and will stay flatter after assembly; narrower vise body width allows for more vises in the work envelope; bolts and locates directly on standard grid plates - 40mm, 50mm and 2in; and has quick-change movable jaw.

This HD movable jaw vise platform allows for quick-change jaw capability without wrenching screws, while the optional jaws provide carvability to hold flat or odd-shaped parts.

Additional features include: built-in handle within the stationary jaw provides easy positioning; uses sine keys for alignment; Groovelock jaw and workstop included; adaptable to double-actuating hydraulic operation for use with robotics (with custom parts); and available with optional grid plate and swivel base.

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out of a vice to machine it on another side, that is a chance for inaccuracy and mistakes to creep in, like having a small chip get left on the parallels because the operator did not blow them off just perfect before re-clamping the work piece. Certainly you would not expect to hold sub- thousandth of an inch tolerances on features made on different vice clampings.

Everybody says that innovation is a key thing about making our world a better place. But nobody seems to understand that single-day machining services are a huge enabler of innovation. By turning things quickly, you can see what needs to be done and better yet, the marketing people can show things to the customers to make the product even better and more innovative. With outfits like First Cut, ForeCast3D, and Protomold giving you mechanical parts in a few days, along with Sunstone, PCB-Pool, Proto Express and Advanced Circuits giving you circuit cards in a fews days, along with Screaming Circuits and Advanced Assembly putting those boards together from parts they or you get overnight from Digi-Key, Mouser, Jameco, Newark, and Allied, well, this is the real revolution in innovation. By turning product development into a months-long effort instead of a yearlong one, these outfits will do more for innovation than all the futurists and pundits combined.

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NCMT will feature the milling of aircraft structural parts and grinding of engine components using the VIPER process at the UK’s Farnborough International Airshow.

NCMT will feature on Makino machine tools the CNC milling of aircraft structural parts and CNC grinding of engine components using the Rolls-Royce VIPER process at the UK’s Farnborough International Airshow.

* Milling - NCMT will display an Airbus A380 wing rib measuring 3m by 1.75m, milled from solid aluminium to close tolerance at Filton, UK, on Makino MAG-Series horizontal, five-axis machining centres.

On display also will be a rib for the A320.

The workpieces are representative of the wide range of aluminium structurals for aircraft being machined worldwide on high-speed Makino machines, said NCMT.

The machines can produce large, complex components to very high accuracy in a single set-up, eliminating two or more sub-assemblies and so dramatically reducing manufacturing lead-time and cost.

On the topic of milling titanium, NCMT told manufacturingtalk that there are a number of developments on the way from Makino.

Innovations will include new machines and spindles, including a high torque (1,050Nm) gearless spindle.

* VIPER creep feed grinding - for producing engine parts, VIPER creep-feed grinding gives stock removal rates of up to eight times those achievable when conventionally grinding nickel alloys using a plated CBN wheel.

Broaching, milling and turning operations can also be eliminated using the VIPER superabrasive process.

In all cases, consumable costs are reduced dramatically, said NCMT.

Now the Makino i-Grinder G5 has been designed specifically to exploit the technology to the full.

Until now, the platform used was a standard horizontal machining centre (HMC).

The HMC had been extensively modified with very high-pressure coolant delivery to the vitrified aluminium oxide wheel via programmable nozzles and through the high-speed spindle.

The 5-axis Makino i-Grinder G5 is available through Makino-NCMT Grinding Division, a company formed to market the turnkey manufacturing systems across Europe and Scandinavia.

Recent sales successes have been recorded in Italy and Germany for the manufacture of compressor and turbine blades, and BLISKs, while Makino has sold a number of machines to aero engine manufacturers in Japan.

Overall, the i-Grinder G5 is 10% quicker at machining nickel alloy components than the modified Makino A55 machining centre that it supersedes.

Metal removal rate is of the order of 80cm3/min and the machine accepts parts nominally up to 300mm in diameter.

The enhancement in grinding efficiency comes from a number of factors, including an increase in linear rapid traverse rate from 40 to 48m/min.

Faster rotary workhead speed, which has more than doubled to 100 rev/min, is especially beneficial when grinding smaller components, said NCMT.

* programmable nozzles system improved - probably the most critical improvement is in the design of the programmable coolant nozzles.

They are more versatile on the i-Grinder G5, as they may be positioned by two rotary NC axes anywhere through 360 deg around the periphery of the grinding wheel, rather than through just 180 deg with the A55.

To achieve this greater degree of freedom, power and coolant supplies are built-in, rather than being delivered through an umbilical cord.

Nozzle positioning speed is faster and therefore more responsive when changing position to direct coolant accurately towards the point of cutting.

A big advantage of VIPER grinding on a horizontal machining centre is that in addition to abrasive wheels, other live and static tools such as milling cutters, drills, broaches or turning tools may be exchanged automatically between the tool magazine and the spindle, allowing additional machining operations to be carried out in the same cycle.

Related technologies that have been developed by Makino-NCMT include EasyGrind and EasyGear programming software, flexible fixturing, and manual or in-cycle part measurement, verification and truing.

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Durex Industries offers heated machine parts in aluminum and bronze, custom designed for OEM applications. These heated parts can eliminate the need for separate heaters to be mounted on or in previously unheated machine components. As a vertically integrated ISO 9001:2000 certified manufacturer of heated components, all aspects of the part are controlled at the Durex facility including design, heater manufacturing, casting, machining, testing, and inspection.

In addition, Durex can offer in-house secondary services such Teflon(TM) coating, 3D modeling, life cycle testing, leak testing, and heat treating. Precision tolerance components designed with modeling software are machined by CNC directly from the program for total uniformity from part to part.
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