Have you ever wondered how airplanes, cars, oil and gas pipelines or medical devices are made? It's not just the materials they're composed of that's so important, but also the high-speed machining ...

Manufacturers of tooling for CNC routers offer a bewildering array of choices. Once you get past basic issues like choosing upcut (maximum chip evacuation), downcut (clean top surface edge), ...

Charts depict interaction of non-uniform substrate and geometry interface characteristics, upper segments, with coating characteristics, lower segment. Substrate, geometry and coating package ...

End mills coated with ta-C. Rockwell indent of ta-C coating shows excellent adhesion. “Physical vapor deposition” (PVD) coatings are widely used to treat in cutting tools because of the wear-resistant ...

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have created coverings for next-generation cutting tools that are not only durable, but also suitable for the treatment of most materials. They have ...

The new method was designed to enable coating processes to be controlled in real time--providing short laser pulses that can coat electronic medical devices and pharmaceutical products with layers in ...

There are several surface coating technologies available for tool steels. Some of them are discussed in this article. These surface coatings are used in applications such as drills, taps, reamers, ...

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University create coverings for next generation cutting tools: they will be not only durable, but also suitable for the treatment of most materials. Polytechnicers ...

Oxford Instruments has introduced a new tool for coating thickness measurement and materials analysis.This new model, the MAXXI 6, is based on X-ray fluorescence technology.It encompasses a high ...