‘Machine Tool Industry’

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Start with the news release SV-1000 increases two-stroke engines' power output from Sunnen Products Company, which we summarised at the time by saying "Sunnen has introduced the SV-1000 vertical CNC honing machine, which allows manufacturers of outdoor power equipment to improve the durability and power output of small two-stroke engines.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release NI develops controller for wireless testing from National Instruments: "National Instruments has introduced the NI PXIe-8108 high-performance embedded controller, which features an Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 processor.".
 
In July 2009, we covered the news from Trumpf - take a look at Trumpf's machinery sales buck downturn which says: "Customers are continuing to invest in machinery from Trumpf that minimises part costs and maximises their quality.".
 
Take a look also at the news release from NL Machine Tool Consulting, Double-disc grinding machines eliminate dead time, as well as CMM machines available to rent from Wenzel from Wenzel UK, and Tristar opens community for CAD/CAM users from TriStar.
 

Latest stories...
Makino machining centres cut titanium faster (July 2009)

Japanese machine-tool builder Makino has introduced the Makino T4 and T2 five-axis, high power, horizontal machining centres for machining components from titanium and its alloys.

Lambert fits Schmitt AEMS into Bryant grinder (July 2009)

Lambert recently won an order to rebuild a Bryant grinding machine for Revolvo, a midlands-based manufacturer of large and split bearings.

Insert drills raise fabricator's throughput (July 2009)

By using AMEC's T-A holders with TiAlN and TiN inserts a steel fabricator has improved manufacturing throughput by 25% and has increased tool life by a factor of 10 over the original tooling.

Festo and V-viz team up to promote vision systems (July 2009)

Festo UK has entered into a strategic partnership with V-viz, a specialist machine vision company, to promote the use of intelligent vision systems in automation.

Brewery machine uses Visionpro guidance system (July 2009)

A machine at the Grolsch brewery in the Netherlands relies on Cognex Visionpro, which guides the grippers that are programmed to rotate and align the bottles so that they have optimum visibility.

Delcam guide covers parallel processing technology (July 2009)

Delcam, a supplier of computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) software, has issued a free guide to the use of computers with parallel processing technology in CNC programming.

Clitheroe plans further FMS extension (July 2009)

Clitheroe Light Engineering, a Lancashire-based contract machinist, is planning to further extend its flexible manufacturing system (FMS) to increase capacity for general engineering contracts.

ITC aluminium milling cutter quickly clears swarf (July 2009)

ITC Tooling has extended the 3041 Cyber Series of three-fluted end mills to incorporate a radius on all diameter sizes.

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Further reading
  • Italian machine tool industry discussions

    At arecent meeting, machine tool industry interests discussed new business models, cultural growth and development of the interactions between enterprises and external environment.
  • German machine tool industry accelerates

    In international machine tool construction, Germany claims to be ahead in all disciplines, with global production at record levels and Asia a 'dominant growth motor' within triad.
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