Machines

Machines with Rotary Tables Increase Productivity While Maintaining Quality

Lie-Neilson Toolworks needed to increase throughput while maintaining quality. Ten FV-2 vertical machining centers, three TR210 rotary tables and an ST-20 turning center with bar feeders from Haas has resulted in a 10- to 15-percent increase in capacity. 

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Band Saw Blades Ideal for Fabricating Applications

Fabtech 2017: Simonds Saw will showcase a range of band saw blades, including its BroadBand for fabricating applications and its IC Enduro for bundled and structural sawing.

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Workholding

Establishing an Effective Hard-Turning Process

In devising its hard-turning strategy, this die/mold shop has been able to speed the production of its new deep-draw round tooling offerings by turning them instead of grinding them after heat treating.

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Turn/Mill

Multitasking Machines Perform Gear Work, Traditional Machining

Gear Expo 2017: Mazak will demonstrate its multitasking equipped with the latest Mazatrol Smooth CNC and Mazak Smooth Gear Cutting Solutions for making precision gears of all shapes and sizes.

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Grinding

Grinding Machine Includes Software for Parameterization

Gear Expo 2017: Kapp Niles will release its KNe3G grinding machine.

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Turning Machines

Murata Machinery Hosts 2017 Technology Showcase

The event brought customers and dealers together to build relationships and showcase the company’s Muratec turning machine technology.

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Laser & Waterjet

Nozzle Technologies Speed Fusion Laser Cutting, Reduce Gas Consumption

Two nozzle designs developed for fusion laser cutting are said to boost feed rates by 100 percent and reduce nitrogen gas consumption by as much as 70 percent.

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Five-Axis

Handtmann Group Sells A-Punkt Automation to Managing Director

The five-axis machining center manufacturer will focus on its core business going forward.

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Turn/Mill

Scanning Probe Application on a Swiss-Type

The following case study provided by Blum-Novotest describes how Karlheinz Lehmann GmbH in Oberwolfach, Germany, is able to maintain 2-micron parallelism of slots on a compressed-air coupling component for Parker Hannifin GmbH.

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Lathes Feature Modular Design

Gear Expo 2017: Emag will feature its modular VL and VT series for chucked components, including its VL 4 machine, designed for medium- to large-batch runs on standard machining platforms.

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