Industry News

11/18/2022
Megamill
Bystronic Laser AG, working jointly with EMCO GmbH from Hallein/Salzburg, undertook a complete redesign of the machine frame machining process so that it could be carried out by EMCO Mecof's Megamill high-gantry milling machine.
11/17/2022
Guy Topping
Abrasive Technology LLC has named Guy Topping as its managing director of Abrasive Technology Ltd.
11/16/2022
Russell Riddiford and Guillermo Ramirez sealing the deal.
Representatives from ANCA and Fravic Daunert signed a distribution contract at IMTS 2022 to sell ANCA products in portions of Mexico.
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.
11/07/2022
The Vomat air handling unit LBG.
Vomat developed a new air conditioning unit that converts excess energy from production and peripheral machines, such as grinding machines, oil extraction systems and machine pumps, and can then use it to heat or cool the production hall.
11/04/2022
Amanda Bakun
ANCA USA, a manufacturer of CNC grinding machines, has named Amanda Bakun to the newly created position of marketing and communications manager for the Americas.
11/03/2022
Big Daishowa will donate a tooling certificate valued at 20 percent of every order from an NTMA member company to the buyer’s school of choice.
Big Daishowa will donate a tooling certificate valued at 20 percent of every order from an NTMA member company to the buyer’s school of choice.
11/02/2022
Renishaw’s Roadshow will focus on advanced manufacturing solutions including the significant measurement challenges facing manufacturers. The two-day event will take place at the Renishaw research facility in Auburn Hills, MI, November 2-3
The two-day event scheduled for November 2-3 in Auburn Hills, MI, focuses on advanced manufacturing solutions.
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.
10/26/2022
LMT Onsrud logo
LMT Tools, a developer and producer of precision tools, announced two recent organizational changes.
10/25/2022
Made on ANCA
Mexican cutting tool manufacturer SJ Tools wins #ANCATooloftheYear2022 for a cutting tool with five operations in one.
JG Group from Poland was a two-time winner in the virtual category.
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.