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This section provides an overview for live centers as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 12 live center manufacturers and their company rankings. Here are the top-ranked live center companies as of December, 2024: 1.Riten Industries, Inc..
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A live center is a type of center that is a component of a machine tool, such as a lathe. It is sometimes called a turning center.
The center is attached to the headstock of a lathe or other machine tool and is used for centering during cutting operations and for maintaining the center of rotation of the workpiece.
There are two types of centers: fixed centers and live centers. The live center is a center with a built-in bearing and has the feature of reducing friction at high speed rotation compared to the fixed center.
Live centers are used to support rotating workpieces on a variety of machine tools, such as ordinary lathes, NC lathes, grinding machines, gear grinding machines, hobbing machines, and polishing machines.
While fixed centers that do not incorporate bearings have limited rotational speed due to friction caused by rotation, live centers can perform high-speed rotational machining because friction is reduced by bearings.
On the other hand, live centers are not suitable for high-precision machining because bearing rotation affects machining accuracy.
Live centers have a built-in bearing in its body and can hold a workpiece in conjunction with the spindle of a machine tool such as a lathe. The live center holds even long workpieces stably and prevents the workpiece from swinging even when machining at high speeds. Because bearings reduce friction, live centers also have the advantage of a long service life.
Live centers have a thicker header due to the built-in bearing. Therefore, depending on the shape and diameter of the workpiece, the tool (byte) and the center may interfere with each other and machining may not be possible, so interference between fixtures must be checked before machining.
The live center has a built-in bearing in the header, which makes the fulcrum distance longer, and a load moment proportional to the distance is applied to the tip of the center. A longer fulcrum distance will create greater deflection during processing. Therefore, live centers have the disadvantage of being inferior to fixed centers in terms of rigidity and accuracy.
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Royal Products, founded in 1946 and based in Hauppauge, New York, is a manufacturer of metalworking performance accessories and is ISO 9001 certified. Its product portfolio includes collet fixtures, chuck stops, mist collectors, air cleaning guns, and machine mounts. The company has hired a team of metalworking experts nationwide to offer technical advice and recommendations. It has over 75 years industry experience, and it does not outsource its product as it owns and operates its factory, which is equipped with CNC turning, milling, and grinding equipment.
Riten Industry Inc. is a manufacturer of precision measurement instruments and workholding products, founded in 1933. The product range includes dead centers, live centers, face drivers, and custom workholding solutions, aimed at improving machining accuracy and productivity for customers in aerospace, automotive, medical, and defense industries. The company produces its products at its Ohio facility and maintains regional warehouses for customer convenience. Riten Industry's quality system is certified annually to meet ISO-9001 standards. Additionally, the company has a specialized department dedicated to repairing and rebuilding used live and dead centers.
SMK Turnkey Solutions Pvt Ltd., established in 2010, based in Maharashtra, India is engaged in manufacturing, exporting, importing, supplying, trading, wholesaling, retailing, distributing and providing services to a comprehensive range of industrial machines. The company’s product portfolio includes chip conveyors, magnetic separators, and hydraulic fixtures. Their products are known for long lasting, resistant to corrosion, precisely engineered, and effective in performance. They are used in making machine parts in the milling industry for multiple sectors, including aerospace and automobiles. The company provides repairing, maintenance and grinding and automation services as well.
ABM Tools founded in1992, is in the business of manufacturing & exporting different types of industrial tools and machine tool accessories based in India. The company has different CNC machines, grinders, shapers, power presses and others. In inspection workshop there are numbers of inspection instruments like master gauges, profile projector, 3D coordinate measuring machine etc., to meet a wide range of needs. Their products are being exported to major countries around the world.
JINING QINFENG MACHINERY HARDWARE CO., LTD, established in 2003, based in Jining, Shandong, China, is a new high-tech private enterprise, specialized in producing high precision cnc machine tools and machine tool accessories. The company has developed and produced collet chucks, cnc tools and other accessories with high accuracy and high speed. Their products have been dealt with sub-zero treatment and thermal aging treatment, guaranteeing long-term stability accuracy and neat shape of the product. The company’s main product services includes machine tool accessories, milling collet chuck series, live center series, spring collet series, and tapping collet chuck series, among others.
ITA Inc., started in 1992 and based in Berlin, Maryland, is a supplier of metalworking products such as mist collectors, fume extractors, and coolant filtration systems. The company’s coral mist collectors are used in all manual and CNC machine tools, including rotary transfer machines, boring mills, and grinders. Its coolant filtration systems are available in disk, roll, and comb variations and remove ferrous and non-ferrous metals as well as organic and inorganic contaminants. The company also offers coolant filter paper rolls for coolant filtration that can be used in applications such as roll grinding, honing, and surface grinding.
Ranking as of December 2024
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
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| 1 | Riten Industries, Inc. |
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The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the live center page as of December 2024. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
Newly Established Company
Company with a History
*Including some distributors, etc.
*Including some distributors, etc.
| Country | Number of Companies | Share (%) |
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United States of America
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5 | 50.0% |
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China
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2 | 20.0% |
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India
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2 | 20.0% |
Switzerland
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1 | 10.0% |
Kabuto Industries Co., Ltd.
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■Product overview Bruckner is an industry leader in face drivers known for their ``Boke System,'' as well as high-precision dead centers for polish...
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