Visit BIG Kaiser Main WebsiteIt’s Thursday, May 10th, nearing the end of DMG / Mori Seiki’s annual iDays exhibition in the company’s U.S. headquarters right next door to us here at BIG Kaiser, in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Doing our part to support our neighbors down the road, we kicked off festivities each morning with a Breakfast & Learn for [...]
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Take a look at this map of Japan being milled. While the very largest manufacturers are able dedicate niche or single-purpose machines to new alloys, composites, plastics and the like, what’s a small to medium-sized manufacturer to do during this advent of non-traditional materials? Smaller manufacturers’ greatest strength has always been agility and flexibility, and [...]
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Investing in your equipment = investing in your company. It is imperative to research equipment to ensure that it meets your own business needs. Here are a few things to consider after you have purchased your equipment: Machines are influenced by their environments; schedule regular check-ups to maintain maximum performance and life capacity. The competition [...]
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Golden Corridor Manufacturing Group, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates – The Golden Corridor Manufacturing Group is a regional partnership of companies and organizations working together to improve the economic conditions of the I-90 corridor in Illinois, USA. BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc. will host an open house for high school students, allowing them a behind-the-scenes peak at [...]
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Whether you think of them as retention knobs, pull studs, or something else entirely, the very fact that you’re thinking of them puts you ahead of the curve. For some, pull studs have been relegated to the periphery of parts; forgettable accessories that don’t get any attention unless something goes wrong. (click here for video) [...]
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After years of close observation and collaboration with manufacturing companies of all sizes, BIG Daishowa Seiki engineers have learned how the choice of tool holders affects production costs on the shop floor. By choosing an inexpensive tool holder to cut corners at the point of sale, shop owners are left with a disproportionate waste in [...]
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Sometimes, a little out-of-the-box thinking is all it takes to solve a big workholding problem. Gerard Vacio, workholding product manager here at BIG Kaiser, offers this solution to just such a problem about holding very large workpieces. “Whenever I am asked to offer workholding solutions for very large work, I consider flipping the tool and [...]
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It took more than 50 years of evolution for the 7 to 24 shank to reach its pinnacle. 1939 – The dawn of the 7 to 24 taper shank age 1969 – The BT shank was standardized in Japan 1992 – BIG-PLUS® Spindle System developed by BIG Daishowa The BIG-PLUS® spindle system is strictly controlled [...]
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It just so happens that 2012 is a leap year. Cut to the Chase asked BIG Kaiser employees what technologies best represent a leap forward in thinking or practice for the machining industry. Take a look at what they said below: “2012 will be a leap forward in tapping applications. High speed rigid tapping with [...]
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The key to effective and efficient production for workholding is fast changeovers. BIG Kaiser’s Gerard Vacio explains, “If you need a larger number of workholding devices to produce your products, you need either to swap out workholding devices or add machine tables.” Since adding machine tables is usually cost prohibitive, new workholding devices are typically [...]
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- Ensuring the Future of Manufacturing
- New Speeds, Forces Turn Spotlight on the Pull Stud
- Do the Math – Runout Accuracy Pays
- Flip the Part or Flip the Tool?
- Leaping Forward in 2012
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