‘Turning 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.
 

Latest stories...
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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