Entries Written By Slater Tools
In-Process Quality Check Ensures Production Doesn’t Skip a Beat
There are many fundamentals when it comes to success from the shop floor. Among them are keeping your equipment running at peak levels for on-time delivery and ensuring your product quality is high. More out the door and no scrap on the floor, so to speak. An important measure to attain this is to gage …
Gear Solutions Publishes Q&A with Slater Director of Operations Kris Renner
Gear Solutions recently published a Q&A with Slater Tools’ Director of Operations, Kris Renner. Click here to check out the full article.
Taking on Tough Internal and External Shape Making
Tough materials such as hardened steel and high-temperature alloys pose challenges for machining applications of all types. This is also true for rotary broaching, a rapid manufacturing technique that creates ID and OD shapes in one pass and in seconds on any CNC lathe or machining center. Due to its ease and speed, rotary broaching …
New Corporate Website from Slater Tools
NEW CORPORATE WEBSITE FROM SLATER TOOLS OFFERS CONVENIENCE AND EASY NAVIGATION Clinton Township, MI, Monday, January 22, 2018, – Slater Tools announces its brand-new website with user-focused features that enhance the experience and offer convenience, especially for customers and repeat viewers. The completely rebuilt website resides at the same url address, www.slatertools.com, and keeps with …
Indexable Punch Broach Press Release
New Indexable Punch Broach Tooling from Slater Tools Offers Simple Set-Up to Machine Numerous Shapes on Presses and CNC Machines Clinton Township, MI, Monday, November 6, 2017 – Slater Tools announces its range of indexable punch broaches and holders to machine shapes in workpieces where rotary broaching may not be feasible. Such cases include (greater) …
Go / No-Go Gauges Press Release
New Range of Go / No-Go Gages from Slater Tools Now Available to Eliminate Process Variations Clinton Township, MI, Friday, October 20, 2017 – Slater Tools introduces its new and comprehensive product line of Go / No-Go gage sets for customer-specific applications. The full range of gages are designed and engineered precisely to inspect your …
Finding the Best Broaching Solution
When your shop gets a new job or is looking for a faster and less expensive solution to producing a part, the research begins on which manufacturing method is best for your application. There are a number of factors that need to be considered when looking into different manufacturing methods: feasibility, price, delivery time, etc. …
Slater Tools: Where Precision Tools Take Shape
It is Slater Tools’ mission to design, manufacture and support the highest quality, most competitive rotary broaching tools, inspection gauges, punch broaches, live centers, and screw machine tooling. For over 6 decades, we have continued to do this by combining qualified, dedicated people with state of the art technology. Our service and quality is known as …
Solving Manufacturing Problems Through Rotary Broaching
INTRODUCTION When the term “broaching” is used in the manufacturing industry, most think of conventional step broaching which involves pushing or pulling a toothed bar through a part on a press. It is a method that has been around since the beginning of (manufacturing) time. The problem with conventional broaching is that it has application …
New Go/No-Go Gage Product Line
In furthering our commitment to CNC Lathe and Mill broaching solutions, Slater Tools has expanded our accessory line to include GO & NO-GO Gages. Inspection gages are manufactured to custom specifications to help aid customers with manufacturing quality assurance. Slater Tools Gages are made for any shape as full form composite, sector, or progressive to …