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VIDEO SERIES
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Visualize Manufacturing
Processes in Action
The Fundamental Manufacturing Processes (FMP) video
series contains over 40 video programs illustrating more
than 20 hours of hands-on manufacturing processes.
> Solid, in-depth examples and applications of technologies
and processes that drive manufacturing
> Real-world company examples with clear explanations and
demonstrations
> Free downloadable outline and study guide with review
questions for each video
Holemaking
Explains the elements of a drill and what types are used in various
applications. Includes operating parameters and good drilling
practices to help operators understand what is happening during
holemaking operations. FEATURES: basic twist drill description,
importance of coolants, drill maintenance and sharpening, manual
and numerically controlled holemaking equipment, and secondary
drilling and finishing operations.
(28 minutes)
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Threading
Illustrates the dimensions that make up all threads, including
the major diameter, the minor diameter, the thread pitch, and the
thread pitch diameter. Learn about the various processes that
produce external threads and internal threads. FEATURES: various
forms of tooling, thread-producing machinery, tapping process, and
tapping machines.
(29 minutes)
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Grinding
See the grinding process and how it is used to shape and finish
metal and other materials. The applications of these methods are
featured along with illustrations of the most common abrasives
and superabrasives. FEATURES: cylindrical, internal, centerless,
and surface grinding processes; types of abrasives and bonding
methods; grinding wheel maintenance; the specifics of surface
finishing; and grinding safety.
(33 minutes)
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Workholding
Examine the principles and concepts inherent to all workholding,
such as the six degrees of freedom. Explore the various
workholding options for milling and machining centers and lathes.
FEATURES: workholding requirements; methods for high- and
low-volume parts; machining center workholding; and the use of
chucks, collets, and other lathe workholding devices.
(27 minutes)
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Cutting Tool Materials
Explore the wide variety of cutting tools and tool materials, from
high-speed steel and carbide to superhard materials. This program
shows you how to select the proper tool material for turning and
milling operations. The various tool coatings and cutting tool
failure modes are also discussed. FEATURES: high-speed steels;
carbide properties, types, grades and coatings; ceramics and
cermets; superhard cutting materials like cubic boron nitride and
polycrystalline diamond; and failure modes, such as cratering,
deformation and notching.
(25 minutes)
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Gears & Gear Manufacturing
Defines several gear and gear-tooth terms and dimensions, such
as: base circle, pitch circle, pitch point, line of action, pressure
angle, outside circle, root circle, addendum, dedendum, and tooth
thickness. Also emphasizes the gear machining methods used,
including: hobbing, shaping, broaching, and milling. FEATURES:
terminology, gear form types, and finishing techniques.
(22 minutes)
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Metalcutting Fluids
Learn what fluids actually do during the metalcutting process and
how to properly apply and care for them. Newer technologies like
minimum quantity lubrication and dry machining are also explained.
FEATURES: various types of cutting fluids, different application
methods, how to select the right fluids for your processes, methods
for maintaining fluids, and safety requirements.
(23 minutes)
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Deburring Processes
Explores mechanical deburring, thermal deburring, and
electrochemical deburring. Learn about the various mass-finishing
processes such as vibratory finishing, barrel/rotary tumble,
centrifugal disk finishing, centrifugal barrel finishing, and spindle
finishing. FEATURES: deburring processes and applications;
types of systems and equipment; and mechanical, thermal, and
electro-chemical processes.
(27 minutes)
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METALFORMING
Sheet Metal Coil Processing
Illustrates the essentials of coil slitting, coil blanking, and coil
processing lines. Coil slitting details the slitting process and the
elements of loop-type slitting lines and pull-through slitting lines.
Coil blanking highlights the use of stationary cut-to-length shearing
lines, flying shear lines, and blanking presses. FEATURES: coil stock
production and handling, slitting line systems, blanking and shearing
processes, and basic components of a coil processing line.
(25 minutes)
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Sheet Metal Shearing & Bending
See how a part is sheared and the variety of shearing machines
available, along with examples of press brake dies, bending
operations, and coil slitting. Additionally, learn about the necessity
for gaging in both shearing and bending operations. FEATURES: the
principles of shearing and bending, demonstration of the theory of
shearing and bending, machinery operation, and the functions of
die tooling.
(21 minutes)
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Punch Presses
Examine the versatility of the turret punch press and its tooling
accessories such as the plasma cutting torch, laser cutting
attachment, and automated material loading and unloading
equipment. Operations such as nibbling are also covered along
with a look at special punch press tooling, such as multi-tools and
special rotary adapters. FEATURES: CNC turret punch operation,
types of punch presses, accessories, and material handling systems.
(20 minutes)
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Roll Forming
Provides viewers with an immediate understanding of basic roll
forming concepts. Shop floor footage and high-quality animations
detail roll form tooling design and the forming of coil stock.
FEATURES: basic concepts and technical terms; dimensional
tolerances; straightness, camber, curve, bow, and twist; tooling
design and manufacturing; machine types; and lubricants.
(26 minutes)
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Tube Bending
Examine the various materials and methods used for bending
and forming tubes, and the most common tube bending methods:
rotary-draw bending, compression bending, ram bending, press
bending, and roll bending. Also, explore the basic forms that can
be applied to the end of a tube, with the primary types being:
reduction, expansion, flaring, and beading. FEATURES: types of
tubing, bending dynamics, tube bending methods, tooling,
and machinery.
(22 minutes)
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Hydroforming
Gain a basic understanding of the materials and tools of the
three primary types of tubular hydroforming techniques: low
pressure, high pressure, and pressure sequence. The sheet metal
hydroforming process, as well as in-process hydro-piercing and the
importance of lubricants, are also presented. FEATURES: elements
of a hydroforming system, sheet metal hydroforming and tubular
hydroforming methods, requirements for each hydroforming type,
and metals used in hydroforming.
(23 minutes)
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Plastic Blow Molding
Details various blow molding production methods, including
intermittent and continuous extrusion blow molding, injection blow
molding, single- and two-stage bi-axial stretch blow molding,
and coextrusion blow molding. FEATURES: parison and preform
production, reciprocal-screw-style and accumulator-style blow
molding machines, and head and die assembly.
(20 minutes)
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Plastic Thermoforming
Discover methods used to produce low- and high-volume products
for the packaging, food, medical, automotive, and appliance
industries. Learn about materials used in thermoforming, the types
of clamping and heating systems, mold types and arrangement,
thermoforming forces, and various in-cycle and post-thermoforming
trimming methods. FEATURES: drape, cavity, pressure, plugassist,
and twin-sheet thermoforming.
(22 minutes)
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Plastics Finishing
Explore plastics finishing processes such as degating, deflashing,
painting, plating, vacuum metallizing, pad printing, hot stamping,
silk screening, and fill-and-wipe. See how contaminants infiltrate
the molding process and how parts are cleaned for these secondary
decorative operations. FEATURES: runnerless molds, post-molding
operations, and basic methods of applied decoration.
(23 minutes)
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Plastics Machining & Assembly
Highlights the use of sawing, milling, routing, turning, waterjet
cutting, laser cutting, drilling, and secondary holemaking
operations while covering the many fastening and joining methods.
FEATURES: methods of machining plastics, cutting tool materials
and geometries, and various assembly and joining methods.
(27 minutes)
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RAPID TECHNOLOGY
Rapid Prototyping
An introduction to several technologies and systems used to
produce rapid prototyped models, parts, and tooling. Provides a
fundamental understanding of stereolithography, selective laser
sintering, fused deposition modeling, ultrasonic consolidation,
the Prometal System, various ink- and multi-jet systems, and
room temperature vulcanized tooling. FEATURES: basic concepts
of rapid prototyping, layer-by-layer modeling, and pattern-based
prototyping.
(24 minutes)
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NEAR-NET SHAPE FORMING
Casting
Explore more than a dozen casting processes and learn how part
size, part configuration, part quantity, required tolerances, and
metal specified determine the best casting process to choose.
Watch how different molds and patterns are created and how
molten metal is transferred from the pouring basin to the mold
cavity. FEATURES: principles of casting, various casting methods,
mold and pattern construction, and typical alloys cast and their
finished characteristics.
(26 minutes)
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Die Casting
Covers the most common die-cast metals and their various
properties, as well as die casting machines and die casting tooling.
The two principal types of die casting machines the hot-
chamber machine and the cold-chamber machine are covered
in detail. Learn what types of metals are typically used in each
type of machine and see how molten metal is injected into the die.
FEATURES: die casting metallurgy, die casting machinery, hot and
cold chamber casting, and die construction.
(23 minutes)
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Forging
Focus is on the two primary types of forging: open-die and
impression-die forging. Learn various properties of forgeable metals
and factors that affect their forgeability. Other related forging
processes, including ring rolling, hot-die forging, and isothermal
forging, are also detailed. FEATURES: definitions and principles
behind the technology, open and closed die methods, hot die
technology, and use of computers.
(23 minutes)
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Powder Metallurgy
The methods used to produce metal powders as well as an
in-depth discussion of the common part production processes
mechanical pressing and sintering, metal injection molding, and
hot and cold isostatic pressing are illustrated in this program.
FEATURES: mechanical pressing and sintering, metal injection
molding, hot and cold isostatic pressing, types of powder metal
particles, mechanical pressing, and injection molding processes.
(23 minutes)
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Extrusion Processes
An introduction to plastic extrusion and metal extrusion processes
with segments on hot metal extrusion, warm and cold metal
extrusion processes, plastic profile extrusion, and blown film
extrusion. FEATURES: demonstrations of the extrusion process; hot,
warm, and cold extrusion processes; industrial applications; direct,
indirect, combination, and impact extrusion; and plastic
extrusion processes.
(21 minutes)
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HEAT TREATING
Heat Treating
Explains and defines heat treating and how it produces stronger,
harder, tougher, and sometimes softer metals and alloys. Explore
the relationship between temperature, alloy composition, and the
metallurgical changes that occur during heating and cooling.
Learn about austenitizing and quenching speeds, mediums, and
temperature control, as well as the tempering process.
(30 minutes)
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FINISHING & COATING
Plating & Surface Coatings
Gain an in-depth understanding of the numerous plating and
surface coating methods and technologies used to modify and
finish parts including electroplating, electroless plating, chemical
conversion coatings, anodizing, galvanizing, and porcelain
enameling. FEATURES: plating and surface coating terminology,
application methods, and methods for high production.
(28 minutes)
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Industrial Robotics
Review the overall advantages and disadvantages of industrial robots
in manufacturing operations, including major applications such
as welding, spray painting, machining, assembly, machine loading
and unloading, and material handling. FEATURES: overview of robot
technology, primary types of industrial robots, programming methods,
robot tooling and sensors, key manufacturing applications using
robots, and advantages and disadvantages of industrial robots.
(25 minutes)
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QUALITY & MEASUREMENT
Mechanical & Non-Destructive Testing
Both mechanical and non-destructive tests are used to gage the
quality of materials and parts throughout the manufacturing
process. Program introduces the key concepts, terminology, and
basic methods of these tests. FEATURES: testing methods and
how they are performed and advantages and limitations of the
various tests.
(26 minutes)
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