Already reportedly well respected for accuracy, HEIDENHAIN adds versatility to its gaging line by expanding its length gage offerings with new variants of its successful in-line SPECTO and ACANTO gages.
Ophir Photonics announced the addition of a new high speed, high resolution, large array CCD camera to the BeamGage family of laser beam profiling systems.
Predicting potential failure of calibration equipment is possible with the latest release of GAGEpack from PQ Systems, allowing users to stay one step ahead of their work and preventing costly failures.
Designed like the Ott-Jakob type GD rotary union with permanently sealed surfaces, this newly developed rotary union from Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. also offers an integrated sensor that monitors leakage.
In the US, many high volume tubing suppliers have moved production facilities overseas to low cost producers like China or Mexico. Minimum buys are now the rule, leaving many US manufacturers with a quandary – How to get small quantities of a wide variety of tubing needed for research and development or smaller production runs.
Schütte announces the introduction of its new 325<em>linear </em>machine, a 5-axis CNC grinder with extended X- and Y-axis movement plus two auxiliary slides for workpiece clamping and improved grinding wheel guidance over the entire machining envelope.
Available from German Machine Tools of America (GMTA), the Präwema SynchroFine 205 HS gear honing machine features direct-driven, digitally controlled spindles for the tool and the workpiece, enabling precise, rigid synchronization.
Using the combined experience of authors Ray Floyd and Richard Spencer, "So You Want To Be An Engineer?" from Industrial Press Inc. provides students and engineers practical knowledge of what to expect as they enter the engineering field to pursue a career.
Industrial Magnetics Inc. introduced the WeighPlus crane scale, a programmable device that warns the operator if they are lifting an overload, thereby protecting them from an unsafe lifting situation.
CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels introduced an improved bond used in manufacturing vitrified wheels for the surface grinding, cylindrical and centerless wheel categories.
Loftware Inc. announced significant enhancements to its 100 percent browser based, all-in-one Enterprise Labeling Solution, releasing Loftware Spectrum 2.5.2.
Mitutoyo America Corp. introduced the MiCAT Planner automatic measurement program generation software that uses 3D CAD models and product and manufacturing information (PMI) to enable one-click automated generation of measurement programs.
Two liquid cleaners developed by Birchwood Technologies can be used on a wide variety of process lines, including blackening, phosphating or electroplating lines.
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products offers the JetStream torch cleaning station, a particle jet torch cleaning station that cleans consumables with a high velocity blast of granulate.