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Phillips Precision’s Products Division announces its new Vision Corner Block as part of the Inspection Arsenal LEAN, Quick-Swap inspection fixture system. Not only does Phillips Precision offer the only quick-swap standard fixture systems, but they provide quick, creative fixture design and quick shipping of orders. Inspection Arsenal tooling will help optimize an inspection process and uncover hidden profits.

The future development impetus for the internal combustion engine will focus on the reduction of CO2 emissions. This is dependent upon fuel consumption, which in turn is determined by the internal engine friction. The goal of form honing is a form optimized cylinder bore under typical operating conditions. Gehring has developed a surface finishing process for internal combustion engines that does not target a cylindrical bore shape.

Thin cut-off wheels from PFERD cut faster than conventional wheels, leaving a cleaner cut with minimal burr formation. They are ideally suited for thin-gauge sheet metal, thin-walled tubing and small-diameter cross sections. These cool-cutting wheels exhibit excellent aggressiveness and service life and are ergonomically designed to minimize vibration, noise and dust.

Rush Machinery offers the new Rush Easy-Cut XL semiautomatic carbide cut-off machine for quick and easy cutting of carbide flat stock up to 2”x4” or rod and tool ends with diameters between 1/8” to 2”.

Somma Tool Co. announces complete services available to companies that use form tools.

Everyone needs a refresher sometimes. The 8th edition of the AutoCAD Pocket Reference by Cheryl R. Shrock and Steve Heather from Industrial Press Inc. covers AutoCAD 2018 and 2019 software, including concepts, how-to, and fundamental commands.

For those new to the world of AutoCAD, as well as those honing longtime skills, an effective resource is the "Beginning AutoCAD 2019 Exercise Workbook" by Cheryl R. Shrock and Steve Heather from Industrial Press Inc. Two new features are included in the 2019 edition, “Drawing Compare” and “Shared Views,” both of which make it easier for colleagues and clients to share and comment upon changes to drawings in real-time.

BIG KAISER announced its new Level Master Wireless, a high-precision device for the leveling of machine tool tables. The Level Master Wireless adds wireless connectivity to enable leveling information to be read from a separate display device, making it easier to ensure that a precision level is correctly achieved.

Zhuming Bi's "Finite Element Analysis Applications: A Systematic and Practical Approach" strikes a solid balance between more traditional finite element analysis (FEA) textbooks that focus primarily on theory and the software-specific guidebooks that help teach students and professionals how to use particular FEA software without providing any of the theoretical foundation, the publisher reports.

Warren Hammer’s Blueprint Reading Basics from Industrial Press Inc. has been a bestselling classic for nearly two decades, revered for its ease of understanding and for giving readers opportunities to practice what they learned. With this historic revision, new author Charles Gillis has updated the entire package.