Medical & Healthcare

Products • May 1, 2015

Wild Mill Endmill

R I Carbide Tool Co., founded in 1959 specifically for manufacturing special tooling for the medical, aerospace, automotive and other manufacturing industries, has introduced the Wild Mill, a premium solid-carbide endmill, designed by Jonathan Wild, Vice President of CNC Cutting Tool Operations at RICT.

Products • May 1, 2015

NEX Series of Instruments

The NEX series of instruments from ZEISS Industrial Metrology integrate additional measurement analysis with their new detectors.

Products • May 1, 2015

quattroClean Parts Cleaner

Whether it's rotationally symmetrical workpieces such as shafts, pistons, bearings, and toothed parts, or medical devices such as implants, if strict tolerances have to be met, each product is carefully checked by optical measurement during the production process. But to do this, component surfaces have to be clean. quattroClean from ACI AG is a solution, an inline and fully-automated innovative cleaning cell.

Products • May 1, 2015

Thread Whirling Toolholder

Designed for single-spindle Swiss screw machines, the latest thread whirling toolholder from EXSYS Tool Inc. productively machines high-precision OD threads in challenging materials.

News • April 30, 2015

GF to host mfg. workshops

Machine tool builder GF Machining Solutions is planning a 3-day technology and education event called Solutions Days at its Competence Center in Lincolnshire, Ill. The event will feature advanced part-processing demonstrations and include a series of manufacturing-based workshops. According to Gisbert Ledvon, director of business development for GF Machining Solutions, the company intends for Solutions Days to be the year's foremost event for manufacturers that specialize in precision part production for industries that include aerospace, automotive, medical and moldmaking.

News • April 27, 2015

MSC expands Accupro portfolio

MSC Industrial Supply Co., Melville, N.Y., a distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services, is expanding its portfolio of metalworking products from Accupro, Davidson, N.C. The new line adds more than 3,000 new precision-engineered metalworking tools to the existing 20,000 Accupro products MSC currently offers.

News • April 14, 2015

Azure MicroDynamics provides manufacturing services

Azure MicroDynamics Inc., Lake Forest, Calif., is a manufacturing, machining and assembly facility specializing in small and micro components with tolerances as tight as 0.0002" for medical devices and other products. Incorporating micromachining processes that include multi-axis milling and turning, Azure is capable of producing low-volume prototype quantities as well as high-volume production, according to the company.

Articles • April 1, 2015 • Alan Richter

Cut the clamp

Increase part quality and productivity when deep-cavity micromachining while achieving tight tolerances. A heat-activated, wax-based compound for holding parts.

Articles • April 1, 2015 • Preben Hansen

Consider live tooling when purchasing a machine

When shops purchase new machinery, a common error some make is accepting the standard live tooling package from the builder without considering other options. This is not a criticism of those packages, but end users should do as much evaluation of their processes when determining the proper tooling package as they do when evaluating machine tools. This examination can range from the simple, such as external vs. internal coolant, to the sublime, such as adjustable vs. extended tooling configurations, to the truly exotic.

Products • April 1, 2015

LMWS Laser Marking Workstation

Miyachi America Corp. announces it's new LMWS Laser Marking Workstation, specifically designed for benchtop operation.

Products • April 1, 2015

Model 9200 Tool and Cutter Grinder

Unison Corp. offers the 8-axis Model 9200 CNC tool and cutter grinder.

Products • April 1, 2015

3-Axis SCARA

In an effort to advance palletizing applications that do not require the traditional SCARA (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm) system's 4-axis design, WEISS has designed an economically advanced 3-axis design solution.