Turning is among the oldest manufacturing processes, having been developed in the Middle Ages and adapted in multiple ways over centuries. Turning is still used to produce components for nearly every ...

The process of grinding was at one time the preferred method of producing workpieces with very high tolerances before the development of high-precision hard turning machines. Thanks to both new ...

Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme (Bobingen, Germany) was founded in 1991 by Rudolf M. Hufschmied and his son, Ralph, as an industrial agency for technology products in the field of machining. Initially, ...

Meissen, Germany, is best known as the site of Europe’s oldest porcelain manufacturer, but among its other industrial businesses is Kersten Maschinenbau, a specialty mechanical engineering company ...

Closing the casting-to-machining divide reduces scrap, speeds production and lowers costs without compromising quality.

Any manufacturing system can be decomposed into a series of unit processes that impart both physical shape and structure to the product. Unit processes are intimately linked to one another by the fact ...