Automation
CAM Software Standardizes, Automates Programming
By encapsulating repetitive procedures and best practices into easy-to-execute routines, CAM software has enabled this shop’s employees to stay focused on value-added tasks, facilitated its efforts to automate production, and contributed to improved productivity and profit margins.
Read MoreIndyCar Team Chooses Hurco Technology
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (DRR) has partnered with industrial automation company Hurco (Indianapolis, Indiana) for the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season.
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Programmable Gaging System for High-Volume Inspection
The Equator gaging system is a low-cost inspection device capable of high speed comparative inspection for high-volume parts manufacturing on the shop floor.
Read MoreCompetitively Priced 12-Ft. Bar Feeder
The Ideal 320 is a competitively priced 12-ft. bar feeder for Swiss- or fixed-headstock-style lathes.
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Enhanced Solids-Based Programming Package
The company’s CAMWorks 2011 version of its solid-based CNC programming package provides new capabilities including enhanced automation, improved knowledge-based machining information and smarter tool paths.
Read MoreHaasTec Open House Billed as Success
More than 2,100 attendees flocked to Haas Automation’s Oxnard, California headquarters and manufacturing facility for the machine tool builder’s HaasTec open house.
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A Look Inside Fanuc Robotics
A video clip produced after a ceremony celebrating the sale of Fanuc Robotics 100,000th robot in the Americas provides brief overview of the company, its technology and its facility.
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Absolute Encoder for Electric Motors
Heidenhain says its ECI 119 absolute, inductive rotary encoder’s feature a low profile (19-mm height, 92-mm OD) and large through shaft (50, 38 or 30 mm) make it suited for electric motors in the electronics and packaging industries; general automation; robotics; plastic molding machines; and swivel and tilting axes.
Read MoreBar Feeder for Swiss Lathes
The Elite 220 bar feeder for Swiss-type lathes features two barstock magazine types with basic bar feeder configuration: a standard linear/gravity magazine for barstock ranging from 0.25" to 0.787" and a “walking beam” type for barstock ranging from 0.080" to 0.25".
Read MoreLogic and Neural Network: When a Factory “Thinks for Itself”
EMO Hannover 2011 is Europe's big "trade show for the metal working sector," but the event is billed as "more than machine tools." Show sponsors say that exhibits will both reflect and to support current research at the frontiers of production automation.
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