Medical & Healthcare

CHALLENGE: Increase QC efficiency when inspecting composite auto parts. An automated opto-digital microscope.

Simultaneous machining on two to four spindles enhances efficiency and lowers the cost per part for high-volume production.

The choice of selective suface-hardening methods depends on workpiece size, shape material and application, but they can be grouped in two main categories: thermal and mechanical.

Stopping a machine to measure a workpiece is a waste of time. Not only is a high-priced piece of CNC equipment being taken out of production, but the measurements obtained when a machinist leans into a machine with a micrometer or bore gage can't compare in accuracy to those generated by a coordinate measuring machine or inline probe.

For years, oil has been the biggest "keyboard killer" of them all. Now Man & Machine, known for its American Made waterproof keyboards for medical and public safety applications, announces an oil-resistant silicone keyboard.

Without some sort of "turbo" attachment, you won't get far trying to dry-machine Inconel or titanium with a conventional end mill. In the form of the universal end mill series Turbomax, tool manufacturer InovaTools has reportedly delivered a multi-talented product.

Machine tool builder Romi Machine Tools Ltd., Erlanger, Ky., announced Mike Burchill, president of Marshall Manufacturing, Minneapolis, as the winner of the "It's Time I Had a Romi in my Shop" sweepstakes, conducted at IMTS 2014 in Chicago. Burchill will receive a Romi C 420 CNC lathe, valued at $63,000.

APEM Inc. expands its family of trackballs with the new LT Series panel mount miniature trackball.

Miyachi America Corp. announces its new Sigma Femtosecond Laser Tube cutting system.

Oelheld U.S. Inc expands on its AquaTec line of water miscible coolants with the introduction of AquaTec OH 3557.

Mazak Corp. has unveiled its new INTEGREX i- 400AM (additive manufacturing) hybrid multitasking machine.