William Leventon is a contributing editor to Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Contact him by phone at 609-920-3335 or via email at [email protected].
With technology under development at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, machining firms soon may be able to improve the process of spotting ballscrews in danger of failing.
With many job shops shying away from robots because of integration and programming difficulties, a machine tool builder introduces products offering an easier path to automation.n