Product News

Renishaw's Equator shop-floor comparative gauge gets a significant speed boost for single-point probing applications with new touch-trigger probing capability via the TP20 probe, which can now be used in addition to the scanning SP25 probe.

A line of direct field-replacement CO₂ laser lenses and mirrors that are shipped overnight from stock and fit popular lasers used for gasket fabrication are available from Laser Research Optics.

The Lee Co.'s new 375 Zero Leak Chek is a miniature check valve featuring a seat with an elastomeric seal to achieve zero leakage.

Deburring of steel, aluminum and nonferrous metal pipes and tubes, specially those with unconventional configurations, has become easier and more efficient with the release of the Abtex Turnamat, a 5-second solution to efficient tube and pipe deburring.

WIDIA has a saying: "Extreme Challenges — Extreme Results." In the future of what some have coined Industry 4.0, extreme opportunities exist in the digital integration of tooling data and knowledge to the shop floor. Extreme results are possible through integrating accurate, complete tool data, rules, and application knowledge digitally to dramatically rethink and shorten process planning, adding real value to CAD/CAM, CNCs, presetting, inventory management, and more. This is what WIDIA envisions with their launch of its NOVO desktop and tablet application: on demand cutting edge delivery of cutting tool data and expertise for reduced product development and manufacturing lead times.

Sandvik Coromant is launching a deep-hole machining concept for the STS system, CoroDrill 808.

Manufacturers of medical, aerospace, prototype and complex multiface parts have long understood the positive impact that 5-axis machining can have on productivity and quality, simply by consolidating operations. Makino's a51nx-5XU 5-axis horizontal machining center reportedly raises these capabilities to a new level, building on the quality, durability and reliability of the nx-series next-generation horizontal machining platform.

Third Wave Systems announced its enhanced indexable drilling capability.

NTK Cutting Tools has released a new proprietary group of advanced composite cutting tool materials called "BIDEMICS."

The compact IndraControl VR series of embedded terminals from Bosch Rexroth complement the company's existing IndraControl V portfolio of larger screen HMIs and the PC-based panels, including the IndraControl VEP, VDP, VSP, and VPP series.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has completed the development of a new model in its best-selling "GE series" of dry-cut hobbing machines.

MTI Systems announced that three U.S. fabrication shops have chosen to implement its Costimator cost estimating software to help them increase their speed, accuracy, and consistency during their critical sales and quoting processes.

Hexagon Metrology announced its new line of Brown & Sharpe/TESA wireless inductive probes with technical features that are reportedly unique to the metrology marketplace.

HEIDENHAIN has released the newest software and hardware for its contouring control for CNCs and cycle lathes, the MANUALplus 620.

Hexagon Metrology released the ROMER Absolute Arm 1.2m portable coordinate measuring machine.

Accudyne Corp.'s latest bar puller, called the BIG- EZ, has a range of 1.625" to 3.00".

Eriez HydroFlow Reversible Liquid Vacuums offer a simple, speedy solution to the usually time consuming and bothersome task of removing spent coolants, waste fluids and oils from machine sumps, reservoirs and storage tanks.

Mazak Corp. says its new SMOOTH TECHNOLOGY is a complete process-performance platform that spans the entire part-production landscape, from programming and setup to metal-removal operations to automation to monitoring/data collection and transfer.

Kennametal's NOVO digital process planning application has continued growing by supplying complete tool data (milling, turning, holemaking, tools, toolholders, spare parts, speeds and feeds, and much more) digitally, saving process planners, parts estimators, and manufacturing engineers hours of catalog lookups and process guesswork.

As a leading manufacturer in the markings and traceability sector, SIC Marking has developed a new portable marking system, the e1-p63c.