Product News

If moving cables in the workspace of lathes, milling and sawing machines need protecting, cable carriers must be chip tight, while simultaneously guiding the cables with low abrasion. For this purpose, igus has developed its first foldable plastic energy tube, the R68 in the Energy Chain System line of cable carriers.

Makino announces the release of the UPN-01 ultra-precision horizontal wire EDM for micro-tolerance and fine surface finish applications.

Mazak now offers its space-saving, highperformance VERTICAL CENTER NEXUS COMPACT 5X Vertical Machining Center as part of a self-contained, prefabricated automated cell that provides efficient, lights-out manufacturing for small-to-medium sized parts.

Hypertherm announced the launch of the Powermax125, a new cutting and gouging system.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has introduced the Nakamura-Tome AS-200 High Performance Multitasking Turning Center featuring a single spindle, single turret in a heavy duty and compact machine.

A line of direct field-replacement CO₂ laser optics for Amada, Coheren, Cincinnati, Epilog, Mazak, Synrad and Universal laser systems are available from Laser Research Optics.

HEIDENHAIN offers a new EIB 742 external interface box for precise position measurement.

DryLin W from igus Inc. was originally developed as a lubrication free, inexpensive alternative to linear guide systems that run on ball bearings.

MTI Systems Inc. announces the release of Costimator version 12.

iglide round bars and plates from the tribo-polymer specialist igus are becoming more diverse to facilitate user adaptations of individual machine requirements. Because igus semi-finished products are made of tested iglide bearing material, all respective bearings can be calculated in advance with the help of the specially developed expert system.

Autodesk Inc. announced the availability of HSMWorks 2014, the integrated CAM solution for SolidWorks users.

Kurtz-Ersa, a European manufacturer of solder equipment, has switched from box assembly to flow assembly. This conversion enables them to process the rising number of orders without having to extend the shop floor. The machines which weigh several tons are transported through the assembly stations by means of RoundTrack technology from STROTHMANN Machines and Handling.

Gleason Corp.'s 1500GMS Analytical Gear Inspection System has been updated to deliver improved inspection speeds and offer many new features to meet the widest range of inspection tasks for gears and non-gears as large as 1,500mm in diameter.

RPAM 700 from Chemtool Inc. is a synthetic, water dilutable corrosion inhibitor/corrosion preventive, based upon an enhanced blend of select amine-surfactant chemistries.

HEIDENHAIN releases its newest addition to vacuum encoder technology with the LIP 400 series linear encoder system.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers series GN 920.1 Wedge Clamps in metric sizes.

Okuma America Corp. offers OSP Virus Protection System (OSP-VPS) that embeds a virus scanning application programming interface (VSAPI) from Trend Micro for Okuma OSP-P controls (OSP-P300/P200A/P200/P20) to prevent infection by viruses from networks or USB flash drives.

igus has a single cable solution for servo motors and its program: the hybrid servo cable has an integrated hyperface bus element.

Chevalier Machinery will continue production of its popular FBB-110 — 130 series machine into 2014.

Spindle drives are becoming larger and more efficient in the case of machining centers and machine tools. To guide higher streams of energy, larger conductor cross-sections are required. As a result, servo cables are becoming thicker with larger bend radii, and in some cases are going beyond the permissible space of the machine tool. A shielded single core cable, like the Chainflex CF270-UL-D from igus is an ideal solution.