Critical Cleaning Hands-on Workshop Do it; learn it! The one-day workshop teaches how cleaning and cleanliness testing work. By participating in hands-on exercises of techniques for cleaning and cleanliness verification, attendees gain the understanding and knowledge to make practical, effective, and sustainable manufacturing decisions. While exercises are supplemented by demonstrations and tutorials, the workshop is not death by PowerPoint! Topics include aqueous, solvent, and “non-chemical” cleaning, including cleaning chemicals and cleaning processes (spray, ultrasonics, cyclic nucleation, in-line, batch). Most manufactured product and product contact surfaces require cleaning during (and sometimes after) manufacture and assembly.  Examples of areas where effective cleaning is essential include: metal fabrication, product assembly, optics, electronics, microelectronics, wafer fab, medical devices, aerospace/aeronautics, military, and additive manufacturing. WHAT DO YOU CALL CLEANING? There are many different terms for cleaning. Cleaning Precision Cleaning Critical Cleaning Safety/Critical Cleaning Surface Prep for Finishing Technical Cleanliness Residue Removal WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THE WORKSHOP If you or your company fabricates, finishes, maintains or repairs product or product contact surfaces (like reaction vessels), this workshop is time well-spent. If you sell chemicals or cleaning equipment, this workshop will help you better understand and optimize the market for your products. Examples include: Manufacturing Engineers Product Designers Managers Sales and Marketing Managers Facilities Personnel Assemblers, operators Process Technicians Quality Control Personnel Regulatory Affairs Experts (industry, military, and government) Safety/environmental professionals​ ​ Participants will receive a PDF Certificate of Completion with continuing education credits from Sam Houston State University.

Environmental factors. Coolant needs to be delivered in large volume and ideally at high pressure as close to the cutting edge as possible. Coolant delivered at 80 bar or higher is recommended to drive a wedge between the rake face of the cutting tool and the chip to further reduce heat transfer and abrasive wear. High-pressure or ultra-high-pressure coolant also enables increasing cutting speeds, thereby improving productivity. Inadequate coolant delivery will greatly reduce tool life.

Zeiss Quality Innovation Days brings together quality and metrology experts from all over the world to take part in industry-specific sessions.

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Note that while the information above is applicable to achieve clean, continuous turning of titanium-based alloys, milling or interrupted turning, or the removal of forging scale, might bring additional challenges.

Ecoclean’s Acoustic Performance Measurement (APM) system provides in-line measurement of ultrasonic frequency and power in fully automated immersion cleaning systems on a batch-by-batch basis or at defined time intervals, such as once a shift, day or week.

Founded in 2001, PMTS reconvenes in April 2025 to celebrate its 13th biennial event for precision machining pros. Mark your calendar now and plan to join the precision machined parts community when we once again gather in person to share challenges and insights, see new technology solutions and learn about process innovations you can take back and immediately put into use in your own shop. The Precision Machining Technology Show is centered at the intersection of the industry's newest and most advanced product technologies, process innovations, business development prospects and personal career growth opportunities.

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Numerous difficulties inherent to turning titanium-based alloys stem from their metallurgical properties. Therefore, it is important that CNC machine shops understand such characteristics as described below before making tooling and machining choices as they endeavor to develop an effective titanium turning process. These characteristics are chemical stability, minimal heat generation/transfer, and the ability to carry varying mechanical stresses.

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The SLV901 and SLV803 solvents are formulated to maintain cleaning efficacy while providing a safe, environmentally friendly alternative to processes that use PFAS and HFCs.

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High-pressure coolant that is efficiently applied to a cutting tool will enable faster, more precise cuts; prevent oxidation of the tooling and workpieces; and prolong the life of a cutting tool.

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Individual elements of the machining process such as machine tools, tooling and even CAD/CAM software play a role in overall machine shop sustainability. Observing the entire process especially when it comes to their influences on energy usage is key.

Cutting conditions. The cutting speed has the greatest effect on tool life because it has the greatest effect on heat generation. In fact, increasing the feed rate is preferable to increasing the depth of cut. That’s because it produces a thicker chip, with the bulk of the heat carried within the chip shielded from transfer to the tool by the chip’s outer layers (because of titanium’s low thermal conductivity). And, while the contact area between the chip and the rake face of the cutting tool will increase as a result of increased feed rate, this relationship is not linear. Increasing the depth of cut, on the other hand, results in a proportional increase in contact area between the chip and the rake face of the cutting tool, leading to a proportional increase in heat transferred to the cutting tool. It’s best to keep the depth of cut low and instead increase the feed rate as long as the cutting forces don’t exceed the strength of the cutting tool and are well supported by the part, fixture and machine.

In addition, titanium’s thermal conductivity is famously low among metals. It is so low that most of the heat generated in the primary shear zone as a result of chip formation remains in the chip. The heat is then transferred to the cutting tool through the amount of contact area between the chip and the tool. Another consequence of the low thermal conductivity is that almost none of the heat that is otherwise quite useful in metal cutting is propagated ahead of the cut. In other words, none of the typical benefits (plasticization, local reduction in yield strength, lower cutting forces and reduced wear) are realized, while all of the disadvantages (softening of the cutting tool and reduced energy barrier for chemical reactions) are experienced.

Tooling selection. For rough turning, the insert substrate must have enough toughness to endure the chip formation mechanism and sufficient strength and hot hardness to maintain a sharp edge for as long as possible. Fine- or medium-grain carbide grades with low binder content are best. For finishing, the benefits of higher hot-hardness outweigh the need for elasticity and toughness meaning a submicron grade (also with low binder) would give the best results. This is exemplified in Greenleaf’s recently developed G-9610 grade, especially when paired with the TF chip form geometry, which has demonstrated high turning productivity and tool life.

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In addition, tool wear when machining titanium is nonlinear. As a result of wear, hones get larger, the insert coating gets thinner and the microgeometry changes shape, all of which leads to higher cutting forces and heat which accelerates wear. Wear begets more heat which begets more wear and that creates a feedback loop that, in titanium alloys, can run away quickly and lead to catastrophic failure. It is important to monitor wear and index the cutting tool before it reaches a critical point where the stresses can no longer be sustained and the tool fails.

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In addition, the insert coating needs to possess low-friction qualities to reduce heat generation and abrasive wear while preventing material deposition, known as built-up edge. It also needs to retain hardness and chemical stability at elevated temperatures, and feature an outer layer with titanium-based chemistry. Traditionally, one would not expect that the appearance of the machined material in the contact layer of the coating is a good thing, but with titanium it is a basic requirement of preventing aggressive chemical wear. TiAlN is quite popular, but PVD coatings such as those used on G-9610 are a new alternative to provide hot hardness, lubriciousness and chemical stability during titanium machining.

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Greenleaf’s G-9610 is a PVD-coated carbide grade designed for turning titanium-based alloys. The wear-resistant, chemically stable and lubricious coating is said to protect the heat-resistant, submicron substrate and enable higher speeds and extended tool life in continuous cuts.

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As a result, stable and efficient turning of titanium requires selecting or designing cutting tools and machining processes to mitigate the effects of these properties. This includes careful consideration of:

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Titanium is an extremely potent solvent. It forms very stable bonds with oxygen, nitrogen and carbon. That means, given the right environment, titanium will rapidly degrade any areas of a cutting tool that are in contact with it that contain oxides, nitrides or carbides. All of these are elements of carbide cutting tool coatings and substrates.

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The machining environment needs to be rigid and damped. If any part of the environment (part, fixture, tool or machine) responds positively to the high-frequency periodic forcing intrinsic to titanium chip formation, users will quickly run into constructive interference which, in this case, is rather destructive overall. The result can be fighting an uphill battle against vibration and all the damage that it brings, including but not limited to accelerated and irregular tool wear, poor surface quality, spindle stall, and inadequate function and accelerated wear of the guides and bearings. A general tip for countering vibration is to vary the cutting speed with time, within a -5% to +5% window. This prevents the buildup of constructive interference by continuously varying the frequency of the forcing function and should limit vibration to a minimum. A larger (±10%) window might be necessary or a smaller (±3%) window could be sufficient.

Can increasing productivity and reducing carbon emissions go hand-in-hand? For its high-volume machining customers, Sandvik Coromant offers a tool for data collection and comparison to aid sustainability-minded process decisions.

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In this case, new controllers for two coordinate measuring machines — one 26 years old — with new programming software offers the possibility to enable multisensor inspection of critical, turned aerospace components.

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As he progressed to CNC Swiss lead and later to his current position as CNC Swiss production supervisor, Darrin Baker helped the Swiss department at Liberty Precision double its productivity, according to his nominator.

Rotary transfer machines remain well-suited for high-volume production, but are now more accommodating to smaller batch sizes.

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Finally, titanium is very ductile and goes through a large region of elastic and plastic deformation before finally fracturing to form a chip. Once the fracture starts, elastic deformation is recovered and the deformed layer springs back, resulting in a great degree of variation in cutting forces per revolution — even in continuous cuts. Mechanically, machining titanium is likened to machining a wet sponge. Using cutting speed parameters that current tools and machining environments allow, the chip formation is cyclical and produces a segmented, serrated chip, which tends to exacerbate the mechanical abrasion of the tool.

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New part programming developments continue to be added to the Tri-County Technical College curriculum and solutions for Swiss-type lathes might soon be included.

Join this webinar and discover how to overcome multi-channel mill-turn and Swiss CAM programming challenges using SolidCAM, with amazing machine simulation and customized post-processors tailored for your mill-turn and Swiss CNCs. Darrin Bryant, SolidCAM’s applications engineer, will highlight how to utilize SolidCAM's CAM software to enhance your CNC manufacturing and demonstrate how to optimally set up your projects for guaranteed success. Agenda: Major benefits of SolidCAM's single window integration and full associativity in Solidworks Embracing the future of increasingly complex CNC machines—including five-axis, Multi-Channel Mill-Turn and Swiss CNCs Exclusive features of SolidCAM's iMachining that provides much shorter cycle times and superior tool life Using iMachining Technology Wizard takes the guesswork out of defining cutting conditions and automatically provides optimal feeds and speeds while considering stock materials, cutting tools and CNC machine properties Using SolidCAM’s Toolkit to easily create customized precision project setups Highlighting the advantages of multiple verification options in SolidCAM Utilizing SolidCAM’s operations sequence manager to simplify synchronized part creation with fewer steps and higher success

Although solid carbide and indexable-insert drills have their place in a machine shop, replaceable-insert spade drills offer specific advantages for various holemaking operations on machining centers and lathes.

Verisurf will offer complete metrology solutions that combine its model-based inspection and measurement software, training and live technical support with Hexagon CMMs.

Over the past year, Mike Gresen has led his team through the process of opening a new Benchmark Electronics location without interrupting supply to customers and within the company budget, shutting down production for only three business days.

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Recent testing has shown that thread rolling can be more economical than thread cutting when producing 4,000 parts or more. A newly created calculator can help you to determine which might be the better option for your threading applications.

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Each year Products Finishing partners with thousands of finishing operations in the U.S. to celebrate National Surface Finishing Day (NSFD) on the first Wednesday in March. NSFD is designed to celebrate and showcase the industry to trade schools, businesses, officials and media, as well as to celebrate employees and staff. The overarching goal of NSFD is to bring further awareness to the important roles plating and coating facilities play in their communities. Facilities are encouraged to host events and work with local media to build awareness about the contributions made by the surface finishing industry. For a helpful guide to reaching out to media outlets, download the NSFD toolkit here. How can you celebrate? Share your company’s story Hold an open house where the public can check out your facility –— either in person or virtual Offer student shop tours to local trade schools Invite local elected officials to visit and get to know your staff Celebrate your employees Share news about what you’re doing on social media and use the hashtag #NationalSurfaceFinishingDay or #NSFD

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PMTS 2023: This tool management solution with Optik software is designed to help shops increase production output and decrease human error.

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Strain hardening (also known as work hardening) is inescapable in titanium machining. Any machining operation will leave behind a dislocation-rich surface with higher apparent hardness than the material immediately below it. Subsequent machining needs to account for this effect by making use of high-feed geometries, decreasing or increasing lead angles (depending on the convention of measurement) or, ideally, using round inserts engaged at or below a 45-degree lead to reduce the incidence of notching. Round V-bottom or RCMT-style inserts tend to be the shape of choice and are stocked with various chip forms geometries in the G-9610 grade.

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The insert micro-geometry (hone and land) and macro-geometry (chip-forming geometry) need to perform very high shear cutting. Large negative lands or hones will generate significantly higher stresses and heat, which will drastically reduce tool life. The chip form geometry also needs to direct chip flow in such a way as to minimize the contact area between the chip and the rake face of the cutting tool and, thereby, the interface of heat transfer. The chip form geometry should be as sharp as it can be while maintaining sufficient edge strength to withstand the variation in cutting forces inherent in machining titanium at common cutting speeds (below 450 sfm). As the primary objective is reducing cutting forces and heat generation and transfer to tool, increasing flank clearance and reducing rake angles is hugely beneficial. As such, an RPGN insert will have appreciably better wear than an RCGN, despite the seemingly insignificant 4-degree difference in flank clearance.

The G-9610 insert grade is said to deliver a 25% increase in material removal rate and up to 100% increase in tool life versus other grades when machining titanium. A variety of insert and chip-form geometries are available.

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