Without the right tool holder, difficult conditions create the perfect storm for chatter, poor tool life and failing quality control molds.

Many shops are unaware that a lot of their spindles are BIG-PLUS, so they don’t realize the capabilities they possess.

Constantly optimizing processes and equipment to achieve an advantage over other race teams, Team Penske adopted tooling improvements based on its decision to expand usage of the BIG-Plus spindle interface and tool holders.

Tapping is an efficient way to create threads in a drilled hole and it makes the overall machining process easier. Burley goes on to discuss this in further detail by emphasizing how tapping has changed within the industry over the years.

It’s been a huge undertaking, and we’re pleased to release BIG KAISER’s latest catalog—High Performance Tooling Solutions, 2018-2019. You may notice that this edition looks a bit different than in the past.

At the first general session of NTMA’s annual meeting in Miami, Chris Kaiser, President/CEO of BIG KAISER, presented a donation for $5,150 to benefit the NTMA’s National Robotics League (NRL).

In a recently published article in Manufacturing Engineering, BIG KAISER contributes to the conversations of the evolution of five-axis machines.

Valuable information on a new standard for balancing tools and tool systems that apply to today’s relevant variables for safe and productive machining.

This topic is important as toolholders provide the critical connection between a machine spindle and the cutting tool.

Have you had a chance to read our recent article that appears in the Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine? Alan Miller, informs readers about different ways to absorb synchronization error.