Product News

The Comau family of robots has added a new model, SMART NJ 650, with an elevated payload to complete its range of high-payload robots.

Siemens has added three new functions to the Sinumerik Operate graphical user interface, making it easier to operate turning and milling machines.

Techniks SFS12 Modular ShrinkFIT System delivers excellent accuracy and clearance at extended lengths.

What strikes the observer first about the new EcoCFlex 3 is Dürr Ecoclean's proprietary scara manipulator replacing the standard 6-axis jointed-arm robot, as well as the machine's exceptional design.

Expanding its offerings of synchronous motors, HEIDENHAIN Corp. introduces the new QSY 260B and QSY 260C EcoDyn series of servomotors with stall torque of 85.0 Nm and 120.0 Nm, respectively.

Mahr Federal Inc. has introduced a new high-precision measuring station to measure and evaluate optical components, including freeform, aspheric, and spherical lenses.

Eriez HydroFlow Refractometers are simple yet rugged instruments that give users the ability to quickly determine the concentration of metalworking coolants and cleaners, heat-treating fluids, water-based hydraulic fluids and plating baths.

eNETDNC announces a new wireless USB DNC unit.

Doosan's Lynx 220LSY Series is a range of affordable, compact and high-speed Multi-Tasking Turning Centers featuring a Y-axis, an important feature, as milling and drilling capabilities of the Y-axis do away with the need for secondary machining operations that might otherwise be performed on, say, a milling machine.

High-performance CNC lathes are available from Kaast Machine Tools with a large spindle bore (6", 9", 12" or 14") and double chuck system.

TESA management recently discontinued production of its Brown & Sharpe Standard bore and snap gages. Mahr Federal bore and snap gages are available to replace these TESA products.

Okuma's GI-10NII is equipped with extremely rigid, high-speed grinding wheel spindles that produce high-performance production in automated environments.

Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. introduces its newest expanding mandrel collet chuck.

The new, affordable AccuteX "Great Economy" (GE) Wire EDMs from Absolute Machine Tools, advertised at $89,000, reportedly combine high cutting speed and accuracy.

Now available in configurations for threading, grooving and chamfering, Carmex says its expanded CMT line of vertical milling inserts delivers longer tool life, higher material removal, excellent surface finish, reduced cycle times, and lower cutting forces in materials up to 62 HRC steel.

Birchwood Technologies' ION EXCHANGE System purifies rinse water for reuse in metal finishing systems.

Palmgren Steel Products Inc. says its self-centering, low-profile machine vise is ideal to use with drilling and milling machines whenever quick, accurate centering of the workpiece below the spindle is required.

The new LaserCam-HR II laser beam diagnostic cameras from Coherent Inc. offer improved performance over the company's original LaserCam-HR.

Kennametal's new asymmetric line-boring solution increases machining robustness, process speeds, and bore quality, and reduces tool maintenance and handling.

Beckhoff Automation has introduced a new industrial server product line that enables "many-core machine control."