Medical & Healthcare

DMG/Mori Seiki's NTX2000 integrated mill turn center is a new model in the range of the X-class machines that have been designed to meet the needs of today's machine tool users. The NTX2000 is a compact integrated mill turn center with a maximum workpiece size of 660mm x 1,540mm.

Stama America announces the introduction of its MC 726/MT-2C mill/turn, twin spindle machining centers for the automotive, fluid power, tooling, medical and other industries, where parts needs to be milled and turned in production operations.

Royal Machine & Tool Corp.'s steel bodied manual VTL large-diameter chucks are manufactured in the USA in sizes from 24" to 72" in diameter and are custom designed and built to customer requirements.

Rustlick is excited to announce the release of ULTRACUT Aero, a new premium water-soluble oil optimized for high-tech ferrous and nonferrous metals, including titanium, aluminum, Inconel and stainless steel, which are widely used in aerospace, medical and the electronics industries.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has introduced the new FANUC RoboCut iE Wire EDM Series, featuring a new power supply for highly accurate and efficient cutting performance in challenging materials.

After a wrenching 2009, when parts manufacturers saw precipitous sales declines and orders and sales of machine tools and cutting tools also dropped sharply, the U.S. metalworking industry experienced a relatively strong recovery in 2010.

More flexible grinding machines allow part manufacturers and toolmakers to fine-tune their production processes.

December 2010 Shop Operations column in Cutting Tool Engineering offers tips for design engineers who would like to start to bridge the gap between design and manufacturing.

Productive machining is all about keeping spindles turning and making chips. Time spent touching off tools, adjusting tool length and offsets in the spindle and doing test cuts is time—and money—wasted. That's the value proposition presented by manufacturers of tool presetters, and it's one that, surprisingly, is a bit of a hard sell in some shops.

PartMaker Inc., a division of Delcam Plc, has released PartMaker Version 2011, the latest version of PartMaker Software for programming CNC Mills, Lathes, WireEDM, Turn-Mill Centers and Swiss-type Machines.

The DD100 high-speed, direct-drive Super-Precision Rotary Table manufactured by Hardinge Inc. is a high-speed parts positioner with +/1 3 arc-sec accuracy and 4 arc-sec repeatability.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. offers the VisionGauge Digital Optical Comparator (Patent Pending) in a vertical configuration.