‘Surface Roughness’

A Manufacturingtalk guide

Start with the news release Grinder shrouds protect against silica dust from Metabo, which we summarised at the time by saying "Metabo has released 5in and 7in (127mm and 177.8mm) dustless shrouds for concrete surface grinding. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Leader CNC distributes Unamuno turning centres from Leader CNC: "Leader CNC has become the sole UK agent for the range of Spanish-built Unamuno turning centres.".

In January 2010, we covered the news from ITC Tooling - take a look at High-feed milling cutters machine hard steels which says: "ITC has introduced the Hanita range of high-feed milling cutters, which has been engineered to machine steels at a hardness of up to 67HRc.".

Take a look also at the news release from Mills CNC, Barker Collins installs Doosan horizontal borers, as well as GibbsCAM 2010 includes enhanced productivity tools from Gibbs and Associates, and Indexable inserts improve cutting performance from Walter.

Latest stories...

VP-G2 Sterile robot targets cleanroom environments (January 2010)

The VP-G2 Sterile Robot, which has been developed by Denso for sterile cleanroom environments, is available from AA Robotics.

RSA presents sawing centre at Tube exhibition (January 2010)

RSA will present the Rasacut MXS sawing centre at the Tube in Dusseldorf 12-16 April 2010.

Five-axis machining centres have linear motors (January 2010)

Agie Charmilles has launched a range of high-speed three- and five-axis Mikron machining centres equipped with linear motors.

TDK-Lambda introduces 15 and 30W DC/DC converters (January 2010)

TDK-Lambda has extended its CC-E range of high-efficiency, high-reliability DC/DC converters with the introduction of 15 and 30W versions.

Metrohm discusses electrode applications (January 2010)

Metrohm provides a review of electrodes and their applications.

Schott software update enhances modelling (January 2010)

Schott Systeme has launched an intermediate update for its design and manufacturing software, Pictures by PC 3.4.

Avon to supply Lehmann rotary tables (January 2010)

Avon CNC has been made official agent for Swiss rotary-table manufacturer Lehmann and has an agreement with sliding-head manufacturer Manurhin to represent the machines in the UK.

Additive layer manufacturing for aerospace parts (January 2010)

ES Technology has revealed that additive layer manufacturing (ALM) for direct part production has been embraced by a number of manufacturing sectors, not least the aerospace industry.

Schmitt offers surface roughness measurement units

Schmitt Europe has launched the Lasercheck range of surface roughness measurement gauges, designed to perform high-speed, accurate and non-contact measurements on a variety of machined parts.
Bench device tests surface roughness

A universal, bench-mountable surface-roughness tester is based on a skidless measuring system and measures in Ra, Rz, Rt, Rp, Rv, Rq, RSm, RmaxD and Material ratio curve.