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Article: Unsnarl your shop - with DNC. (programming for direct numerical-control machine tools)
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- Tooling & Production
- Article date:
- May 1, 1990
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Unsnarl your shop - with DNC
Flameco Engineering Inc, Ogden, UT, produces complex sheet-metal parts for the aerospace industry. Made of titanium alloys, Inconel, and other exotic metals, these parts go into engines and airframe structures.
To make these complex shapes, Flameco builds its own dies, punches, and other tooling. Equipment in the shop includes two Cincinnati Milacron CNC vertical milling machines, two Shizuoka CNC vertical milling machine, an Amada CNC turret punch press, and a Westinghouse Unimate 6000 CNC robot that wields a waterjet cutter. Other machines in use here are a Behrens manual turret punch press, a CNC wire EDM, and a CNC lathe.