Noah and Lloyd Graff recently interviewed Esben Østergaard, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Universal Robots. Universal Robots produces what it calls "cobots," low cost but powerful robotic arms meant to aid workers on the factory floor, rather than replace them. Most people can learn to program the robots in a free 88-minute online course.
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Today’s Machining World, Graff-Pinkert’s sister company, just launched its weekly podcast, Swarfcast!
The podcast centers around similar topics that readers have enjoyed in Today’s Machining World during its first 18 years.
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Noah Graff recently interviewed Miles Free, the Precision Machined Products Association’s Director of Industry Research and Technology. He’s a guru of machining industry world politics and one of the world’s foremost experts on the steel trade.
In March when President Trump tweeted his intentions to implement a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum coming into the United States, Free was bombarded from news outlets around the globe for his analysis—he really knows his steel.
He compared the tariffs to the economic sanctions on imports that the United States would inflict on an enemy like Russia or Iran. “Nobody would have dreamed that the White House would ever use an entire industry as a negotiating technique” Free said.
Graff-Pinkert is more than just a machine tool dealer. We are a company that provides solutions for our customers' manufacturing challenges. We sell machines ready for customers to start making parts on their floor. Watch this video to learn more about what Graff-Pinkert can do for your machining firm.
Part I: Removing the Spindle Bearings
Part II: Changing the Bearings
The photo above is a Graff-Pinkert ad in the Serial Number Reference Book For Metalworking Machinery 7th Edition from 1979. Graff-Pinkert & Co. has undergone a lot of changes since my grandfather Leonard Graff and his cousin Aaron Pinkert started the used machine tools business back in 1941. We've been in business almost three quarters of a century, and it's mind boggling how many multispindle screw machines we've sold and then ended up buying back decades later, which we then refurbish and sell to new customers.
I'm thankful for our 8-32 Euroturn (ZPS). Rigid, fast, accurate. A modern beautiful, multi-spindle, almost as beautiful as the Czech women who live where it's built.
I'm thankful for traditional cutting oil. No, not the water soluble stuff which destroys beautiful machine tools.
I'm thankful to live and work in a country which still manufactures many of the best parts in the world at competitive prices.
I'm thankful for all our Wickmans, solid, high precision multi-spindle screw machines, great for quick changeover. Why buy any other machine?