enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. APT (programming language) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT_(programming_language)

    APT is used to program numerically-controlled machine tools to create complex parts using a cutting tool moving in space. It is used to calculate a path that a tool must follow to generate a desired form. APT is a special-purpose language and the predecessor to modern computer aided manufacturing (CAM) systems. It was created and refined during ...

  3. Parts book - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts_book

    Parts books were often issued as microfiche, though this has fallen out of favour. Now, many manufacturers offer this information digitally in an electronic parts catalogue. This can be locally installed software, or a centrally hosted web application. Usually, an electronic parts catalogue enables the user to virtually disassemble the product ...

  4. Commercial off-the-shelf - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf

    Commercial-off-the-shelf or commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) products are packaged or canned (ready-made) hardware or software, which are adapted aftermarket to the needs of the purchasing organization, rather than the commissioning of custom-made, or bespoke, solutions.

  5. Tool and cutter grinder - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_and_cutter_grinder

    Such features allow parts to be designed and verified, as well as the production process optimized, entirely within the software environment. Tool and cutter grinders can be adapted to manufacturing precision machine components. The machine, when used for these purposes more likely would be called a CNC Grinding System.

  6. John Ruskin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

    Ruskin further explored political themes in Time and Tide (1867), [112] his letters to Thomas Dixon, a cork-cutter in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear who had a well-established interest in literary and artistic matters. In these letters, Ruskin promoted honesty in work and exchange, just relations in employment and the need for co-operation.

  7. Keen Kutter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keen_Kutter

    Items bearing the Keen Kutter trademark are considered collectible. There were numerous items produced which have cross collectibility.Pocket knives, hand tools, railway locks, and advertising items from Keen Kutter are of interest to many collectors.

  8. Disc cutter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_cutter

    This tool is very similar to an angle grinder, chop saw, or even a die grinder, with the main difference being the cutting disc itself (a circular diamond blade, or resin-bonded abrasive cutting wheel for a disc cutter vs. an abrasive grinding wheel for an angle grinder). This tool is highly efficient at cutting very hard materials, especially ...

  9. Corkscrew - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corkscrew

    The disk prevents the worm from going too deep into the cork, forces the cork to turn with the turning of the crosspiece, and thus breaks the adhesion between the cork and the neck of the bottle. The disk is designed and manufactured slightly concave on the underside, which compresses the top of the cork and helps keep it from breaking apart. [2]