With more than 40 years of experience, Quality Tool and Gear in Redford, Michigan, has become known as a leader in the gear industry. It recently purchased a new Mazak QTU-350 CNC lathe to turn its small family of input gears. The new machine made the company more efficient. However, their current method of holding the parts nullified the benefits …

Chicago, IL – Speedgrip Chuck Company, an Elkhart, Indiana headquartered workholding equipment manufacturer, becomes the first United States customer of Taiyo Koki’s CVG-6T grinding machine and commence a partnership effective immediately. Taiyo Koki, DMG Mori owned grinding machine manufacturer, continues to go beyond the conventional concept of the traditional grinding processes since its establishment in 1986. Taiyo Koki’s technology is …

By David A. Stokely Greater accuracies, faster cycle times, and better surface finishes are all byproducts of choosing the right workholding solution for gear production. As I sit down to write this article, I realize that in one week I will have spent 35 years of my life manufacturing and designing chucks. I began working here at Speedgrip Chuck, Inc. in …

By David A. Stokely One of the most vexing problems in machining today is how to most efficiently make an out-of-round part round. In the days of thick-walled tubing or cut slugs, this manufacturing task presented little difficulty, but with today’s thin walled near-net-shape parts, the difficulties mount. Fortunately, we have developed several ways to make this task much easier. It …

Speedgrip Chuck Company, founded by Fred Earnest and his son Richard Earnest in 1946, is a manufacturer of high-precision, customized workholding equipment for CNC machine tools. From its Elkhart facility, the company sells to a diverse set of customers and industries, including automotive, aerospace, defense, off-road and construction, and health care.

I encourage our customers to take full advantage of our design experience. In the course of a year, a typical manufacturing engineer will see at most a handful of new parts. Our designers will see that same number of parts in an average week, and we have the added advantage of being exposed to manufacturing processes across the entire spectrum …

Jeff Boyer received the Oustanding Support Award from the Whittemore Company for 2018. Congratulations Jeff!

I’ve said this before, but it really is fun to be a chuck designer.  We never know what new challenges await us when we open up a request for quote folder that has come over from our sales department.  Our customers are continually asking us to help them push the envelope. In this blog post, I will share two quote …

Automotive Industry Application – Fast and Highly Accurate Part Inspection   The application:   An automotive component manufacturer needed to 100% inspect a critical feature on a high production volume turned part.   The challenge:   The production was very high, and the large daily quantities needing to be inspected demanded a rapid and reliable way to check the  runout …