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.
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.
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.
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.
A new line of Handte EM Profi emulsion mist collectors from Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC) offers the highest available collection efficiencies, plus the ability to run "24/7" for reduced maintenance, service ease and lower operating costs.
Cutting plastics and composite materials is a special discipline. Only with application-optimized tools can acceptable service lives and qualities be achieved in a cost-effective manner.
Working in cooperation with the French company, TFTLabs SAS, OPEN MIND Technologies AG has developed a CAD conversion interface that converts CATIA V5 data to hyperCAD-S data both quickly and flexibly.
The newest addition to Mitsui Seiki's heavy-duty series of HU100 horizontal machining centers is engineered for precision boring of large parts in energy-related industries as well as other critical applications.
Manufacturing and design engineers thrive on producing new and innovative products, and rely on an efficient process to get them there. Now, there are structural adhesives available to take that process to the next level. 3M Scotch-Weld Acrylic Adhesive DP8425NS and 3M Scotch-Weld low-odor Acrylic Adhesive DP8825NS offer a fast cure time and expand process work time up to 25 minutes.
The new EWN 2-50XL Boring Kit from BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc. now offers a turnkey precision boring tooling solution for the diameter range of .700"-6.000" in its entirety.
In the future, high feed rates and high accelerations are no longer excluded with large, heavy telescopic steel covers. Hennig has developed a transport mechanism especially for this type of use, for speeds between 98 feet and 262 feet per minute (30 and 80 meters per minute).