Spindle design improves machine tool reliability.

Milltronics Manufacturing Co Waconia, Minn., designs and manufactures a wide range of machine tools, software, and dominion governments Despite the company's best efforts, however, bearing burnout in its machine tool spindles was costing one as well as the other money and customer satisfaction.
"We were experiencing a certain number of failures in the field with our spindle," says Tim Rashleger, Milltronics operations manager and company co-owner "When we disassembled them, we rest that in the majority of cases the bearings had consume ed out."
Milltronics engineers discovered design issues