‘Transfer Machines’

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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 Trumpf's machinery sales buck downturn from Trumpf: "Customers are continuing to invest in machinery from Trumpf that minimises part costs and maximises their quality.".
 
In July 2009, we covered the news from NL Machine Tool Consulting - take a look at Double-disc grinding machines eliminate dead time which says: "Officine Meccaniche Viotto is offering single-sided and double-sided disc grinding machines, with either vertical or horizontal spindles. ".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Schuler Systems, Profitrans AT3 boosts car-part supplier's output , as well as Barden manufactures cylindrical roller bearings from Barden Corporation, and CMM machines available to rent from Wenzel from Wenzel UK.
 

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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.

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.

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.

Cordex unveils Centurion XPG digital camera (July 2009)

Cordex Instruments has released the Centurion XPG flame-proof digital camera.

EOS whitepaper assesses DMLS benefits (July 2009)

EOS Electro Optical Systems, a manufacturer of laser-sintering systems, has released a whitepaper examining the benefits of using direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) to create tooling inserts.

Citizen to represent Miyano sales in northern UK (July 2009)

Citizen Machinery UK is to represent the Miyano range of turning centres in Scotland, the north of England, north Wales, the east Midlands and East Anglia.

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