Other Technologies for Sculptors

• Laser and Plasma Techniques Crossland Machinery, Laser, Plasma & CNC Punching Crossland Machinery has been providing the finest Machine Tools available to the Metal Working Industry in the Midwest
for 35 years. We are continually searching for new and better technology for our customers.


• Komatsu Cutting Technologies: Rasor Fine Plasma Cutting Systems: The Rasor fine plasma cutting systems are ideal for the vast majority of industrial metal cutting applications and can be found increasing productivity and lowering operating cost. These systems are being used to produce sheet and light plate metal parts with: Precision tolerances, Minimum kerf width and narrow slots, Sharp clean corners and fine detail, Straight edges with minimum dross, The ability to cut a wide ariety of material in thicknesses up to 1/2", High production rates, Low operating costs. Komatsu Cutting Technologies is the only true alternative to laser."
  
  
• Plasma-Automation Vicon Plasma Cutting Machines: These systems range in power from 30 AMPS to 400 AMPS and can include water cooled torches and automatic torch height controls. Their procision machines are made of solid aluminum gantry, precision ground ways supporting THK linear guides, and precision motor drives and components, are why we named this machine the VICON 2001. Our design, coupled with the latest technology, has resulted in the best price/performance package available
  
  
• Crossland Machinery, EDM Charmilles Wire EDMs offer you outstanding accuracy, speed, versatilty, and simplicity of control. We offer a full line of EDMs to meet your needs. The Robofil 300/310 is the best-selling EDM in North America.
  
  
• CNC Laser Cutting at A-Z Manufacturing Our customers require quality parts delivered on time to their schedule, not ours. With three lasers and a direct connection to our CAD/CAM system, A-Z has the competitive edge in producing parts that meet customer specifications and time constraints. Our most powerful laser can cut steel up to 0.75 inch thick, or stainless to 0.5 inch. Plexiglass and wood are cut cleanly to 1 inch thickness. Aluminum can be cut to 0.5 inch. The laser is also accurate and clean on plastics, titanium, hastelloy, *Inconel® and kevlar.
  
  
• 3500 Watts, Table is 8 foot by 43 foot.
• 1500 Watts, Table is 48 inch by 96 inch.
• 1000 Watts, Table is 48 inch by 96 inch.
  
  
• 1.4 Intermetallics and plasma spray forming Plasma spraying is a versatile processing route for applying coatings of almost any material, especially for high temperature or refractory materials. Its advantage over conventional production methods is its ability to combine the melting, synthesis and consolidation of the spray material in a single process. In the present study plasma spraying is used to produce free-standing, near-net-shaped articles.
  
  
• PlazJet White Paper PlazJet - A High Power, High Velocity, Plasma Spray System Gary Irons, TAFA Incorporated Concord, NH U.S.A. DC plasma guns have been used for thermal spraying for about 40 years, but the power levels remain unchanged. Most commercial plasma spray systems have maximum ratings of 40 to 80 kW and normally operate at less that 50 kW. In 1994, TAFA introduced PlazJet (Figure 1), a DC plasma system designed to spray coatings at 200 kW and higher. The high power level was obtained through innovative gun geometry and significantly higher gas flows and arc voltage.
  
  
• Plasma Spray Spreading and Solidification of Molten Particles in a Plasma Spray Process In a plasma spray process, material powders are injected into the high temperature plasma flame region where they are rapidly melted and accelerated toward a substrate and impinge onto its surface to form a coating. The industrial significiance of this process lies in the possibility of producing coatings with a strong mechanical and anti-corrosive properties on preshaped parts.
  
  
• physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/ The world's most comprehensive index to on-line physics resources!
  
  
• Manufacturing Technology Gateway
  
  
• Manufacturing Links
  
  
• Agile and Advanced Manufacturing
  
  
• Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP)
  
  
• Laser Manufacturing Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• National Coalition For Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM)
  
  
• Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems
  
  
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
  
  
• World Wide Web (WWW) Manufacturing Links
  
  
• Manufacturing Technology Information Analysis Center (MTIAC)
  
  
• Manufacturing Technology Centers (MTC's) via NIST
  
  
• NASA Technology Transfer Network
  
  
• MEP - Manufacturing Extension Partnership - Hands-On Help for Manufacturers
  
  
• MEP Center Locator
  
  
• Industry.net - the new community of industry onlineIndustry.net, an IHS Group Company, is the world’s largest engineering-related, Internet-based technical information community enabling unparalleled one-to-one marketing of industrial products and services. Industry.net offers a wide variety of free and paid editorial and technical information used for specification and sourcing by design and maintenance engineers and procurement professionals around the world. In other words, Industry.net is here to facilitate the interaction between the buyers and sellers of products. Serving over 550,000 registered members in the engineering, information, and industrial manufacturing communities, Industry.net is the most widely used and fastest growing Internet resource for industry, product, and company information.
  
  
• Association for Manufacturing Excellence Online
A not-for-profit organization founded in 1985. An association of 6000 executives, senior and middle managers wishing to improve their personal performance. An organization whose members want to improve the competitiveness of their organization.

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• Sharp Tips & Ideas - News and Information for Cutting Tool Users. A Darex Corporation Newsletter. Articles are contributed by MAN-Modern Application News, Cutting Tool Engineering, Metlfax, etc. Cutting Tool Sharpeners for the machine tool industry. Discussed: Cutter grinders, grinding, cutting tool grinders, drills, (drill bits) end mills, taps, reamers, countersinks and sharpening machines or sharpeners, CNC, milling, drilling, HSS, carbide, cobalt twist drill bits, hole making. The choice of the metalworkers, (metalworking) machinists, machine operators. Great for sharpening service entrepreneurs, self employment.
  
  
• Search on Abrasives" at Industry.Net
  
  
• Avant Tool & Die (Services)
  
  
• WRENN MACHINE TOOLS, INC.
  
  
• Ultrasonic Testing Links
  
  
• Machine Tool Agile Manufacturing Research Insititute MTAMRI is a virtual research institute that is strategic alliance of Industry, Government, and Higher Education, dedicated to the advancement of technologies related to the design, manufacturing, and utilization of machine tools. Its purpose is to bring together researchers at universities around the country to work together on research projects to accelerate the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new technologies and to facilitate the movement of these efforts into industrial practice. MTAMRI serves to bridge and integrate research results coming from both private-sector sponsored research and other government-sponsored efforts such as the NSF I/U CRC and ERC Programs, NIST ATP, DOE TEAM, and DOD Agile Manufacturing Programs. A primary goal of MTAMRI is to develop an infrastructure and associated specific models for inter-university collaboration. MTAMRI concerns itself with other UIUC Manufacturing Education,Research
  
  
• (NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center) and Outreach centers(Institute for Competitive Manufacturing).
Machining Process Modeling Agile Fixturing to develop an "agile" machine tool capable of simultaneously controlling both machining and fixturing operations. Hybrid Machining Systems The Abrasive Electrodischarge Grinding (AEDG) process proposed in this project description is one of the new processes under development. As a hybrid process, AEDG is characterized by the mutual assistance of mechanical abrasion and electrical erosion in material removal. Drilling Technology

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• Sonic-Mill™ Rotary Process The Rotary Sonic-Mill™ Process uses a power supply to generate a high frequency (20 Khz) electrical signal which is applied to a piezoelectric converter. The converter changes the signal to mechanical motion coupled to a horn which in turn holds the rotating tool. The horn expands and contracts approximately 0.002" (20,000 times per second) causing the tool to vibrate longitudinally. The rotary system uses diamond tools which are plated or impregnated. The rotary motion is variable (0-4,000 RPM) and combined with the ultrasonic motion will machine most hard and/or brittle materials. Ultrasonic NDT Journal
  
  
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• MMED Fabrication Services -- Ultrasonic Machining
  
  
• Ultrasonic Machining In USM process, the tool, made of softer material than that of the workpiece, is oscillated by the booster and sonatrode at a frequency of about 20 kHz with an amplitude of about 25.4 um (0.001 in). It forces the abrasive grits, in the gap between the tool and the workpiece, to impact normally and successively on the work surface, thereby machining the work surface.
  
  
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