Automotive

News • August 8, 2022

Control system secures Swedish production line

With a modern control system, a 20-year-old production line can perform and have the same availability as if it were new. Shiloh in Olofström, Sweden is well aware of this – they tasked AP&T with exchanging the control system on one of their existing press lines in 2019.

News • August 3, 2022

Double-digit growth for robot sales in North America

The North American robotics market experienced its best quarter ever to begin the year.

News • June 22, 2022

Seeing mobility change as an opportunity

Combined drive technologies and e-mobility require a multitude of precision-ground components. The manufacturer of high-quality grinding technology, Fritz Studer AG in Thun, considers itself ideally equipped to meet this requirement with its productive machining concepts and high-quality grinding machines.

News • June 8, 2022

Advances in machining aluminum aid the shift to electric vehicles

Material choice and innovations in metal cutting are supporting the transition to more environmentally friendly vehicles, and demand for vehicles is increasing.

News • May 18, 2022

Star SU appoints key account technical applications engineer

Star SU has appointed Jim Perry as its key account technical applications engineer. In this position, Perry will provide application support to the Southeast and Great Lakes regional sales teams with a specific focus on PCD Round Tool products.

Articles • April 11, 2022

Shop produces for land, sea and air

Meet family-run BVI Machining and how Esprit helps keep this modern shop running.

Articles • February 22, 2022

Remanufacturing to better than new

Mazak horizontal machining center helps shop handle long boring and reaming tools.

Articles • December 1, 2021 • Alan Richter

COVID strikes back

The delta variant of the coronavirus, a shortage of semiconductors, logistics challenges and a scarcity of skilled labor are affecting the rebound of manufacturing, but there is reason for optimism.n

News • November 11, 2021

Star SU names GM for Tawas Tool

Star SU has named Thomas Giglio as its new general manager for the Tawas Tool operations, comprised of two facilities in East Tawas, Michigan, where the company produces gear cutting tool solutions in addition to tool reconditioning services.

News • November 5, 2021

Transmission manufacturer cuts inspection times in half

At the U.S. transmission plant of a global automotive manufacturing group, component inspection times have been reduced by half or more by upgrading the company's coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) to incorporate 5-axis scanning technology in addition to touch probing.

News • June 21, 2021

Electric vehicle production increases need for skiving cutters

Many countries are moving to end the sales of fossil-fueled cars, and auto manufacturers are experimenting with electric vehicle technology to meet these requirements. The trend may have an impact on cutting tool sales, according to a new post by ANCA, a manufacturer of cutting tools.

News • June 18, 2021

GWS names new application specialist

GWS Tool Group has named Michael Keener as an application specialist who is responsible for supporting GWS distributors and key metalworking customers in the application of GWS high-performance cutting tool solutions