Machine shop supervisor Kenny Urban stands at Meyer Tool and Manufacturing’s first five-axis machine, a Hurco VMX42SRTi. The shop added this machine five years ago when it won a bid for a particularly ...

All manufacturers are under pressure to make their operations more efficient. That means getting more from your investments in both production equipment and people. Automation is increasingly part of ...

Makers and hobbyists searching for a five axis desktop CNC machine might be interested in the Pentamill a new milling machine launched by a Kickstarter offering precise five axis machining at an ...

If you’re interested in making things (and since you’re reading this, we’re going to assume you are), you’ve almost certainly felt a desire to make metal parts. 3D printers are great, but have a lot ...

Makers and hobbyists looking for a CNC milling machine mighty interested in a new system called the 5AXISMAKER which has been created by 5AxisWorks based in London and is equipped as you might have ...

Deconstructing multiaxis machining: a synopsis, dispelling misconceptions and outlining the transformative benefits. In the realm of manufacturing, CNC programmers and machinists play a pivotal role ...

Until 2016, it was impossible to incorporate a femtosecond laser—an ultra-short pulse duration laser—onto a 5-axis machine. This was first realized by the Swiss group Georg Fischer in 2016, thereby ...

There’s a certain class of parts that just can’t be made on a standard 3-axis mill, nor with a 3D printer or a lathe. These parts — weird screws, camshafts, strange gears, or simply a shaft with a ...

The recent presentation of the sporty Nissan Concept 20-23 included a few bits of behind-the-scenes footage from the automaker’s design center in London, UK. A video shows the carving process of the ...

The patent-pending uP-Gear process — co-developed by Heller Machine Tools and Voith Turbo — is aimed at manufacturers of vehicles, machines, or machine components, that machine large gears in low ...