Industry News

11/15/2022
The Lotus Emira
Lotus Cars Ltd. is known for the design and manufacture of high-performance cars born out of legendary success on the racetrack. Its latest sports car, the Emira, is by far the most accurate model ever built by Lotus thanks to the use of a 5-axis HC-90TR twin-arm coordinate measuring machine from LK Metrology.
11/14/2022
Workpiece carriers are loaded with around 150 parts are fed into and out of cleaning cabinets.
Parts cleaning is critical to achieving precision, process reliability and high efficiency in processes and production technologies.
11/11/2022
Ecoclean
The production of high-precision parts with complex interior geometries requires top quality along the entire production chain. In order to be optimally prepared for future cleanliness requirements, a Swedish manufacturer replaced one of its existing solvent cleaning systems. They chose an Ecoclean EcoCcompact fitted with Ultrasonics PLUS, to mention only one of the system's features.
11/10/2022
Wet blasting
Additive manufacturing is not perfect, and one area where significant issues reside is in the surface finish of AM parts as they come out of the build chamber or off the build plate.
11/09/2022
Skivving for EV market.
Power skiving is the fastest-growing method of gear machining.
11/08/2022
When machining titanium, the highest temperatures are reached near the cutting edge and in the chip. This is evidenced by a light-colored cloud forming around the chip. (Source: Blaser Swisslube)
The research and development team at Blaser Swisslube, a Swiss expert in metalworking fluids, set about planning and implementing an idea to capture a machining process, chip formation and the behavior of the metalworking fluid more precisely than ever before through photos and videos. The idea came about as part of a joint project with the renowned ETH Zurich.
10/31/2022
Customers are increasingly looking for holistic solutions. The mobileCELL makes companies more competitive.
Automation tasks are becoming more challenging. However, using intelligent software in combination with the relevant automation solutions not only enables workpieces to be loaded and unloaded but also means that machine tools can be set up fully automatically through the automatic replacement of tools and clamping devices.
10/28/2022
Haoneng Technology Co. Ltd.
The Haoneng Group, a Chinese manufacturer in the field of vehicle transmission synchronization, is operating four WGT series inspection machines from Liebherr to help ensure the quality of its components.
10/27/2022
Setup station and control system for the machining center
At the Teisnach plant of the Rohde & Schwarz technology group, the PHS 1500 Allround pallet handling system from Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH automates four HF 5500 5-axis machining centers from Heller.
10/24/2022
The Versa Built VBX-16
More than most industries, aerospace component manufacturing machines have a lot of exotic alloys and hard metals like titanium. A byproduct of utilizing these materials is that more pressure is put on the machines, spindles, and retention knobs. The result is that the tools must be changed out more frequently as they dull or break.
10/21/2022
Fracture
Establish a controlled process to maintain tool life.
10/20/2022
Gear motor final testing
Product quality is a critically important consideration when purchasing electromechanical components, such as electric gear motors. But what does quality mean, and how do you evaluate it as a customer?
10/10/2022
Komatsu Germany‘s production
Increased flexibility and productivity were achieved thanks to a traveling column milling machine equipped with a universal milling head.
10/07/2022
Hermeus
Velo3D, a metal additive manufacturing technology company for mission-critical parts, announced that Hermeus, a company developing hypersonic aircraft for defense and commercial applications, has acquired two Velo3D Sapphire printers for high-volume production: an original Sapphire and a large-format Sapphire XC.
10/06/2022
Helen Blomqvist
She began her role as president of AB Sandvik Coromant in Sandviken, Sweden, nearly two years ago, but Helen Blomqvist started working at the toolmaker as a research engineer about two decades ago.
09/30/2022
Rotary vibration separation
For tiny precision components with dimensions of < 1 mm and deep-drawn from 100-micrometer thick sheet metal, the surface finishing operation can be quite a challenge.

09/26/2022
3D-printed metal parts go hypersonic
Purdue researchers use AM injector components from Velo3D to create Mach 6 conditions for a ground-testing facility.
09/23/2022
EPS SingleTool (close up)
A breakthrough ultrahigh-precision robotic machine tool positions an object anywhere in a 215 mm circle with accuracy, speed and controlled force.
09/19/2022
Shown here is a standard BMT cross working tool.
A review is given of this machining method, its basic concepts and developments in the technology.
09/15/2022
Brannon Steel
Family-owned and -operated since 1968, Brannon Steel built a strong reputation as one of North America’s premier suppliers of carbon steel parts-to-print.

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