Automatic tool changers, type CTM from Indexing Technologies Inc. are suitable for applications on NC milling machines, vertical and horizontal machining centers, CNC lathes, transfer machines, laser and plasma cutting machines.
An aerospace customer was faced with the choice of either building a new facility to house two new milling machines or splitting production between two manufacturing sites. Bertsche developed a new machine concept that offered the customer the productivity (throughput) of two machines and the floor space footprint requirements of one machine, thereby saving the customer the cost of building a second facility and moving all production to a larger facility.
Brush-on Presto Black Gel, Antique Black Gel, and Antique Brown Gel are for use on post processing part touchup or on manufactured metal parts not suitable for traditional processing lines.
Okuma America Corp. announced the launch of their interactive "Industry Parts Viewer" that provides users with a unique view of industry-specific assemblies and parts.
The new SH-4000 horizontal machining center from Tongtai, distributed by Absolute Machine Tools Inc., was developed for mass production line formation and fast aluminum alloy parts machining.
Inspection professionals have a new tool for fluorescent magnetic particle and penetrant testing and many other applications — the Spectroline EK-3000 EagleEye UV-A/white light LED inspection kit from Spectronics.
Optodyne Inc. has announced a new high performance and compact LICS-300H for the measurement of 3D volumetric positioning errors, including the 3 displacement errors, 6 straightness errors and 3 squareness errors.
The new OmniLux Optical CMM from Redlux Ltd. for cutting tools combines the advantages of an optical coordinate measuring machine with those of a roundness machine and adds the focus variation technique to obtain detailed measurements on the cutting edge.
The complete machining of cylindrical bores from raw part to precise, controllable tolerances in just one setup on its H Series machining center dramatically reduces tooling and machine cost as well as machining times, according to Heller.
