Any information on the requirements of railway switching equipment located on maimline US rail track? Who are the leading suppliers of this type of equipment?
I have a drawing that list "P12 Dynamo" as the material and I can't find any chemical specs for this material (used in an electromagnetic application). Due to the age of the drawing I assume that this material is a propriety material that has since been obsoleted. I need to update this...
RNDGuy is exactly right! You have to satify three key employee behavior issues in order to be able to apply Lean techniques.
1) The employees must be well trained and confident they can achieved the expected results.
2) They should feel that they will benefit from good performance.
3) Finally...
What is the best system on the market for programming
5 to 3 axis mills, 5-axis multi-tasking machines and 2-Axis lathes. I need one package to do them all. Is there a CAD/CAM system with these capabilities?
I am partial to stick tooling as well but I need to cut our setup times. I am looking into quick change chuck jaws and a solution to decrease our barfeeder setup times. Our setup times on our mill-turn lathe range from 1.5 hrs to 3.5 hrs. I have considered using bar stock diameters in increments...
Durability. Both machines can machine the same parts. The rapid traverse of the Mori slower but the jog feed rates are faster. The Integrex has more horsepower but do you need the extra horsepower? I want the machine that will have the least amount of downtime and the only way to collect that...
I have spoken to numerous tool salesmen about KM and Capto style tooling systems but I would like other opinions of people who have used them. Which one is most rigid?
I am using an epoxy to hold electrical contacts into an injection molded polyester block. Upon curing the shrinkage of the epoxy is significant enough the misalign the electrical contacts. I would like to know how to control the shrinkage without introducing new chemicals. For instance the epoxy...
