‘Cnc Vertical Machining’

A Manufacturingtalk guide

Start with the news release Sintral 303 coolant has very long sump life from Lubriserv, which we summarised at the time by saying "Lubriserv has announced the UK launch of Sintral 303, a water-miscible, chlorine-free, boron-free, nitrite-free coolant for metal machining.". 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 Roemheld - take a look at Roemheld vices eliminate distortion problems which says: "Subcontractor Smithstown Light Engineering has invested in fixe-axis workholding vices from Roemheld to drive down material costs and eliminate distortion when machining off waste.".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Mahr Federal, Mahr Federal showcases MMQ 200 with probing system, as well as 434/PWR analyser uncovers energy waste from Fluke, and Floyd to present tooling for sliding-head machines from Floyd Automatic Tooling.
 

Latest stories...
Insert grades for titanium milling performance (March 2010)

Sandvik Coromant has launched two coated insert grades - S30T and S40T - for Coromill cutters that are said to provide higher levels of titanium milling performance.

Mill-turn centre features three-station changer (March 2010)

Okuma's mill-turn centre combines the power of a 45kW CNC lathe with that of a 37kW machining centre capable of removing 610cm3/min of S45C steel using a f100 face mill.

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.

Mill-turn centre enables guide-brush support (March 2010)

Traub has introduced a CNC sliding-head mill-turn centre on which it is possible to select whether to turn a component with the support of a guide bush, or without it.

WNT shows tool-vending system at MACH 2010 (March 2010)

WNT will launch several cutting tool products, unveil its latest catalogue and promote its Tool-O-Mat tool-vending system at the MACH 2010 exhibition.

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.

NXis Ortho handles parts from design to 3D product (March 2010)

Walter's Helitronic Vision CNC tool grinder and NXis Ortho software package is designed to allow orthopaedic-parts manufacturers to quickly take prototypes from 3D model to finished product.

Sescoi helps CA Tooling cut machining cycle times (March 2010)

Sescoi's WorkNC software and Myworkplan job management system have helped CA Tooling, based in Lynchburg, Virginia, to cut machining cycle times by 25 per cent and generate 15 per cent more business.

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