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2 weeks ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
“A lot of our customers are other machine shops around New England, because they’ll get orders for machining metals, but then one of their customers might have a couple plastic parts. It’s easier for them to subcontract it out,” says Mark Rohlfs, president and one half of the brother-and-sister ownership team of East Coast Precision Manufacturing.
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2 weeks ago | 
manufacturingtechnologytoday.com | Evan Doran
“A lot of our customers are other machine shops around New England, because they’ll get orders for machining metals, but then one of their customers might have a couple plastic parts. It’s easier for them to subcontract it out,” says Mark Rohlfs, president and one half of the brother-and-sister ownership team of East Coast Precision Manufacturing.
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1 month ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
Modig — both the company and its president — recommend inverted milling for hard metal applications that require extensive stock removal. The trunnion table where users can load parts supports up to 1,874 lbs (850 kg) of material. Images courtesy of Modig Machine Tool. What happens when you flip the spindle in a vertical machining center? At IMTS, I saw a machine that answered this very question: Modig Machine Tool’s IM-8.
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1 month ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
While it’s almost impossible to deny that real-time machine monitoring poses great benefits to machine shops, it’s equally impossible to deny that how much it helps a shop depends on the shop in question. As MachineMetrics Chief Product Officer Rutherford Wilson notes, shops can immediately start using these systems to get information about how machines are being utilized.
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1 month ago | 
manufacturingtechnologytoday.com | Evan Doran
While it’s almost impossible to deny that real-time machine monitoring poses great benefits to machine shops, it’s equally impossible to deny that how much it helps a shop depends on the shop in question. As MachineMetrics Chief Product Officer Rutherford Wilson notes, shops can immediately start using these systems to get information about how machines are being utilized.
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1 month ago | 
productionmachining.com | Evan Doran
Advanced CAM programming techniques can make significant differences in the cycle times and costs of jobs, but creating tool paths with these techniques has historically been a time-consuming process, limiting their use to mid- and high-volume parts. Or at least, this was the case in 2010 when Production Machining sister brand, Modern Machine Shop, spoke to Tom Funke, a CAM and applications specialist at Sandvik Coromant for the aerospace, space exploration and defense markets.
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1 month ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
East Coast Precision Manufacturing has a habit of defying the odds. Brother-and-sister team Mark and Nancy Rohlfs founded the plastics shop just before the Great Recession and moved into a new building just as the COVID-19 lockdowns began. But this team and their shop have thrived during that time, expanding to its current 34 machine tools and a square footage ten times as large as its starting point in Mark Rohlfs’ garage and basement.
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2 months ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
Van Buren Tech is a rural CTE school where 11th and 12th graders from 15 schools attend career programs for half the school day. Kooyers runs morning and afternoon sections of the Advanced Manufacturing course, both of which have a maximum of 18 students. All images courtesy of Verisurf. A manufacturing program is much like a part in one key aspect: It doesn’t matter how well either is made unless there’s a way to check the results.
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2 months ago | 
manufacturingtechnologytoday.com | Evan Doran
Van Buren Tech is a rural CTE school where 11th and 12th graders from 15 schools attend career programs for half the school day. Kooyers runs morning and afternoon sections of the Advanced Manufacturing course, both of which have a maximum of 18 students. All images courtesy of Verisurf. A manufacturing program is much like a part in one key aspect: It doesn’t matter how well either is made unless there’s a way to check the results.
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2 months ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
Granite State Manufacturing’s two five-axis Soraluce machines enable the shop to maintain tight tolerances on several large weldments and help the shop keep up with a steady workflow: two systems per year for Virginia-class submarines and one system per year for Columbia-class submarines. All images courtesy of Select Machining Technologies. Manufacturing submarine parts doesn’t just mean meeting a tight tolerance on each part.
