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About MillMax

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How long has tap-testing been around?

The earliest papers describing the mechanism causing chatter in machine tools date from around 1960. As an input, the computation needed (and still needs) the Frequency Response Function (FRF) of the structure.In the early 1960’s, the measurement of the FRF of the machine tool structure was hard and...

What about drilling, boring and turning?

The MillMax, as the name implies, is designed for milling only. However you can use the same hardware to collect vibration data that can be analyzed by Dr. Michael Gomez fort other applications using advanced software that he has access to a Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennes...

Dashboards vs. Okuma NAVI

Some history first. Navi is based on the CRAC algorithm invented by MIllMax co-developer Dr. Tom Delio. It was not released in the U.S. until his patent expired in 2012. We had some legal back and forth with Okuma’s U.S. patent attorneys at the time: https://www.google.com/patents/US5170358 Simply, ...

What is BlueSwarf?

Today, BlueSwarf no longer sells tap-testing equipment or software. All rights to software that would enable them to manually generate Dashboards has expired. All BlueSwarf data collection tap-testing kits in the field are no longer functional, that is, they cannot produce Dashboards. BlueSwarf cann...