General Machining & Manufacturing Processes

The Forney 40 P Plasma Cutter is the ideal choice for heavy-duty cutting. This machine is capable of dual-voltage, allowing users to work wherever 120V and 230V power is available. The 20' torch included with this unit allows great reach and a large working envelope for maximum convenience and comfort.

To meet the challenges of the metal treating industry, Solar Atmospheres purchased and commissioned a Hitachi smart Scanning Electron Microscope. The FlexSEM1000 II will allow Solar to meet customer needs, such as strict requirements for low level contamination from carbon, oxygen and/or nitrogen post heat treating.

Paul Carlson has been named president and CEO of Tolomatic Inc., Minneapolis. Carlson has more than 30 years of manufacturing experience serving a broad spectrum of industrial, commercial, food and beverage markets globally.

The transformational wave sweeping across numerous industrial sectors and markets is presenting companies with new and ever-shifting challenges, and this is also applies to industrial component and surface cleaning. This trend is fully reflected by parts2clean 2020, which takes place Oct. 27-29 in Stuttgart, Germany. For virtually every high-tech application in the fields of manufacturing and reprocessing, parts2clean is the information and procurement platform of choice for users of industrial cleaning technology.

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. announced that Vincent K. Petrella, executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, will be succeeded by current executive vice president, finance, Gabriel Bruno, effective April 22, 2020. Petrella will continue to serve as executive vice president to assist the executive team with the transition of the finance and corporate strategy organization until his retirement later this year.

Jacob Schieffer has joined Beckhoff Automation LLC as central regional sales manager. Based at the subsidiary's headquarters in Savage, Minneapolis, Schieffer will oversee sales development of new and longstanding customers throughout the Midwest, covering all key automation markets and centers of innovation.

Customers and partners of BIG KAISER Precision Tooling teamed up to generate a $7,283 donation to benefit the National Robotics League (NRL). The amount is nearly 10% more than last year and the fourth year-over-year increase in NRL funding from BIG KAISER.

Imagine you're trying to learn a new tune on the piano, but the sheet music only has one note out of every ten. Wouldn't that be pretty hard? That's what it's like learning what your machine is doing with data that only plays a few notes from the entire piece. Just like Chopin, a machine writes complex, nuanced melodies that get shortchanged when an incomplete picture is represented in the notes it plays, the data.

OnRobot has launched a compact, single-pad version of its innovative Gecko no-mark adhesive gripper. The new Gecko Single Pad (SP) gripper brings the same capability to new automation applications with small footprints and lower payload. The Gecko SP is available in three sizes; SP1, SP3 and SP5 named after the gripper's payload in kilos, featuring ability to lift a wide range of flat, smooth, shiny or perforated surfaces.

Tungaloy is expanding its AH9130 drill head grade series to include the DMP drill head line of the DrillMeister head-changeable drill series.

At Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. worldwide headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany, a long-planned generational change has been implemented in its management with the naming of Markus Spanner as new CEO.

Idea Share is a team of designers who specialize in solid and brazed construction cutting tool designs manufactured from solid carbide, HSS, TCT, PCD and other tool materials.