American Society for Precision Engineering - ASPE

Welcome!

The American Society of Precision Engineering (ASPE) is rooted in the US precision machine tool industry. We are glad for this opportunity to organize parts of the technical Forum at IMTS this year.

We hope to keep emphasizing and promoting the principles of precision in a symbiotic relationship with the other forum partners and the AMT at the IMTS 2008 Manufacturing Business & Technology Forum (MBTF).

Forum Educational Description

As part of the IMTS 2008 Manufacturing Business & Technology Forum the ASPE is organizing papers on the best and most up to date research projects from the engineering development departments of the exhibiting machine tool companies. We will be offering intense short summaries of our normally half day long tutorials. As a bonus, each day will end with a debate between recognized experts in the field on important issues of the day like; hard turning vs. grinding, on machine vs. off machine inspection, the deterministic viewpoint vs. the probabilistic viewpoint. ~Drew Devitt, ASPE

View the Forum Registration information and plan to attend IMTS 2008 now.

Session Schedule

SESSION TITLE	HANDOUTS
Tuesday, September 14
Innovative Multi-Tasking Concepts for Turbine Blade Manufacturing - TU01
Cycle-controlled Lathes - TU02
Advanced Grinding Technology Leads to Measurable Gains - TU03
Cutting Tools Engineered for Power Generation - TU05
Metalworking Fluid Performance in Aluminum High-Speed Machining - TU09
Cutting Tools Engineered for Medical - TU11
Wednesday, September 15
The True Cost of Setup on a CNC Machine - WE02
Productivity Efficiencies in Difficult Materials Require Consideration of the Machine Tool, the Spindle, and the Cutting Tool - WE03
Gaining 50% Productivity with Workholding - WE07
Green Manufacturing Techniques and Machine Designs - Practical Technology Available and in Use Today - WE08
Manufacturing Economics - WE10
Thursday, September 16
New Metal Cutting Techniques Applied to Current Market Trends - TH05
How Do Small Shops Break Into the World of Automation? - TH06
Increased Productivity by Effective Thermal Management in Metal Cutting of Titanium - TH12

Conference Contact for ASPE

Erika Deutsch-Layne
Meetings Manager
919-839-8444    erika_layne@aspe.net

American Society for Precision Engineering

The Mission of the ASPE is to advance the arts, sciences, and technology of Precision Engineering, to promote its dissemination through education and training, and its use by science and industry. Precision Engineering is a discipline encompassing the design, development, and measurement of high-accuracy components. By extension, the field also includes the design of systems in which high dimensional accuracy is a central concern, as well as the design of machine tools and measuring machines to accomplish the necessary manufacture and measurement.

Visit ASPE's web site for more information http://www.aspe.net.