It’s safe to say most Hackaday readers would love to have a mill at home, or a nice lathe, but such equipment isn’t always practical for the hobbyist. The expense and amount of room they take up is a ...

Siemens used this test part to demonstrate new state-of-the-art milling techniques. It is made of tool steel hardened to 54 HRC and was machined on a Micron HPM 800U machining center. Something most ...

CNC machining is a wonderful thing, taking away a lot of the manual work required in machining and replacing it with accurate, repeatable computer control. However, this doesn’t mean that you can ...

Why do designers and mechanical engineers need experience operating a manual mill, or for that matter any machine tool? A similar question might be asked about CNC machinists: Who cares about all that ...

In this webinar Dr. Juergen Stein, R & D Manager from Hosokawa Micron Ltd discusses wet and dry media milling techniques for size reduction of powders to submicron level. Fundamentals of media milling ...

Pharmaceutical micronization plays a pivotal role in enhancing the efficacy and bioavailability of many active pharmaceutical ingredients and the need for robust, repeatable and precise particle size ...

Five-axis machining represents a critical advance in modern manufacturing, allowing the simultaneous control of five independent axes to achieve complex geometries and enhanced surface finishes.

Composite materials, notably those reinforced with carbon or glass fibres, are increasingly utilised in engineering applications due to their high strength-to-weight ratio and durability. However, ...

Milling is a popular and effective top-down process utilized in the production of glass powders, with particle sizes ranging in size from the nanoscale to microns. This article explores a range of ...

Mastercam X5 also introduces new functionality for multi-axis machining, hybrid finishing, and other tasks CNC Software is introducing some notable new capabilities with the release of Mastercam X5, ...