BIG DAISHOWA Blog

When one variable can make an impact on the result, as in metalworking, it’s a good idea to eliminate as many as possible. Each BIG KAISER part is built to fit precisely and work specifically within each finished product.

Matching lead angle to the application is just as important to quality and productivity requirements as other modular boring tool components.

When defining tooling requirements for a new project, oftentimes standard tooling is all that is needed. Other times, custom or special tooling is required. Explore the role each has in today’s manufacturing environment.

After researching presetters for eight years—including four trips to IMTS—CEO Ronda Peterson knew it was the time to invest in the next level of efficiency for her shop.

Exciting improvements in automation are already on their way—higher productivity, increased safety, greater throughput and less scrap. Tool digitalization provides opportunities for production improvements, like our EWE digital fine boring tool. It displays the actual diameter of a tool, makes adjustments much simpler and faster, and reduces human error.

In a recent podcast, Paul Lewis, regional manager for BIG KAISER, sat down with Alan Rooks, editor in chief of Manufacturing Engineering magazine, to discuss changes in recent years that have affected middle management at manufacturing companies.

Efficiently moving information around your shop floor is more important than ever. Connected through RFID, a shop can now use a tool presetter to monitor things never monitored before and use that data to fine-tune processes, reduce inefficient costs, and make the factory floor smarter, streamlined, more efficient and competitive.

Ansonia Manufacturing, the only machine shop in the town of Sonoma, California, discovered the EWN2-32ExER32 boring head and used it to complete a tricky hardware component job for a “live” glass art sculpture.

Explore the benefits of making the switch from negative to positive tool offsets.

Charlie Mitchell, machinist for Andretti Autosport, spent up to eight hours setting up his five-axis machine with 10 tools to run 30 to 40 different processes on a part. Using UNILOCK pallets, set-ups times are 70 to 80 percent shorter.