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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“With this new 5-axis machine, we can perform further post-processing on almost all the composite components we make,” says Marcel Gillis, CEO of Refitech. “That was a long-held wish of us and our ...

Interested in building your very own 3-axis CNC milling machine, plotter and engraver? If you are you might be interested in a new build which has been published to the Hackster.io website by Amit ...

Modern milling machines look much the same as they did 30 years ago. However, they now must cut superalloys, titanium, and high-tensile steels to closer tolerances and at faster rates than before. To ...