Kevin has 34 years' experience in manufacturing, including 20 years as an Applications Engineer at Okuma. Previous experience includes machinist, CNC programmer, tool and fixture design, and CNC manufacturing engineer. Kevin currently specializes in multi-function lathes (LT, Macturn and MULTUS machines), automated cells and solutions to difficult machining processes.
If you take a look at the brief video shown here, you might do a double take. What on earth is this unusual process we’re showing? It’s a software option called Z-W Overlap Function that you can order for an Okuma CNC ...
At IMTS 2016, and at our recent Technology Showcase event, I had the pleasure of demonstrating a new function for Okuma’s MULTUS-style machine tools: Turn-Cut. This technology has been available for several years on our mil...
I spent six weeks in Chicago this summer doing some training and a part runoff for a new MULTUS B750 we installed at Northstar Aerospace. Northstar is the leading independent manufacturer of helicopter transmission components...
Many shops have a built-in option on their multifunction CNC lathes that they’re not taking advantage of: in-process gaging. There’s a perception that in-process gaging adds a lot of cycle time, but for many manufacturers thi...
Has this ever happened to you? When using a new technology, at first it seems awkward and alien. Then, before too long…nothing could ever get you to go back to the old way. The reason you’d never go back? That new functionali...
