‘Citizen Machines’

A Manufacturingtalk guide

Start with the news release Jetcam helps Compsys improve nesting efficiency from Jetcam, which we summarised at the time by saying "Compsys has announced that using Jetcam Expert software with High-Performance Nesting has helped it gain a competitive edge with 15 per cent better nesting efficiency.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Schaublin CNC turning centre for medical machining from Schaublin Machine Tools: "Schaublin Machines has announced that Clada Medical and Alta Science have selected the 102TM CNC turning centre for intricate micro-machining.".
 
In March 2010, we covered the news from Tornos Technologies - take a look at Sigma 20 lathe machines scaled model racecar parts which says: "Titanium Racing has installed a Tornos Sigma 20 CNC automatic sliding headstock lathe, which it says is leading to growing orders for its range of scaled parts for model racing cars.".
 
Take a look also at the news release from FDB Panel Fittings, Snap-Line compression latch enables IP65 sealing, as well as Bearing gantry system uses Renishaw encoder from Renishaw, and 434/PWR analyser uncovers energy waste from Fluke.
 

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Floyd to present tooling for sliding-head machines (March 2010)

On stand 5281 at Mach 2010, Floyd Automatic Tooling will be demonstrating its ability to supply a wide and specialised range of tooling to users of sliding-head turning centres.

Briggs supplies fleet management for food company (March 2010)

Briggs Equipment has secured a major contract after demonstrating how it could reduce costs for a supplier of fresh produce.

Heidenhain CNC system retrofitted at Nelson Tools (March 2010)

Electron Engineering Services has retrofitted a Heidenhain TNC 320 CNC system to a SIP Series 740 jig borer at Nelson Tools.

Hexagon offers probe heads for coordinate machines (March 2010)

Hexagon Metrology has launched new versions of the Tesastar-m and Tesastar-sm motorised probe heads for Brown and Sharpe and Sheffield-branded coordinate-measuring machines.

Numroto software has enhanced collision detection (March 2010)

NUM is extending its tool-grinding software package, Numroto, with enhanced collision detection and other new features.

Cabinet Vision to display solid-modelling software (March 2010)

Cabinet Vision, part of Planit Software, will showcase the latest version of its solid-modelling software for woodworking professionals at the upcoming KBB exhibition.

Kasto to show metal cutting and storage solutions (March 2010)

Kasto will showcase technical solutions for the economic cutting and storage of metal in businesses of all sizes at the Open House Futuredays2010 event on 5-7 May.

Delcam to launch R2 Powerinspect software (March 2010)

Delcam will launch the 2010 R2 version of its Powerinspect inspection software on Stand 3514 at the Control exhibition, which is due to be held in Stuttgart on 4-7 May.

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