CNC Update: Features and Automation
Precision is key when it comes to automotive parts; the complex designs of connecting rods, pistons and rings, blocks, cylinder heads, and other parts require super tight tolerances that are getting more and more difficult to be met by hand or with other machining processes outside of CNC.

CNC Machines: The Haves vs. Have-Nots
Now more than ever, there’s a need for the precision and speed of a CNC in three-, four- and five-axis configurations as well as lathes.

Centroid Announces its A590 5-Axis Engine Shop Machining Center
A new level of 5-axis CNC machining performance and price point is found in the Centroid A590 5-axis Engine Shop machining center. Create billet blocks and heads and CNC port and blue print Diesel blocks and heads faster than ever before.

Centroid A590 5-Axis Machining Center
Centroid has introduced a new level of 5-axis CNC machining performance and price point with its A590 5-axis engine shop machining center. Create billet blocks and heads and CNC port and blue print diesel blocks and heads faster than ever before.

Centroid Performance Racing – PRI 2016
John Cowher of Centroid Performance Racing demonstrates what the company’s latest machining centers are capable of doing.

Centroid CNC Machine Tools at PRI
Centroid demonstrates its CNC machine line at the 2014 PRI Show in Indianapolis.

Centroid A560 Port Block CNC Machine
Cecentroid_engine_builderntroid’s A560 Port Block CNC Machining Center can copy and cut CNC cylinder heads with its hands-off autonomous 5 axis CNC Digitizing. The unit can CNC-machine blocks to perfection.

Centroid to Lead CNC Seminar at 2014 PRI Show
Centroid will be hosting a CNC seminar at the 2014 PRI Show located in meeting room #205 on Friday, December 12 at 10:00am at the Indiana Convention Center. The CNC seminar will discuss CNC cylinder head porting, CNC block machining, CNC parts creation, digitizing, and CAD/CAM.

What Can CNC Do For You?
Are you using Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) equipment in your shop? According to our most recent Babcox Machine Shop Market Profile Survey, 12 percent of engine builders said they own a CNC machining center (a multi-purpose machine that can do surfacing, boring, milling, drilling, etc.). The survey also asked what other types of equipment our

CENTROID’s CNC Machines and Tooling at 2013 PRI Show
CENTROID highlights its NC 5-Axis Cylinder Head Porting Machines and CNC Block Blueprinting Machine Tools at the 2013 Performance Racing Industry (PRI) trade show in Indianapolis, IN.

Future of Engine Building: The Road Ahead for Machining
The future always seemed so far away for some reason. You had cartoons featuring flying cars and movies about aliens and galaxies far, far away.
