General Machining & Manufacturing Processes

The Model 300 Portable Floor Sentry fume extractor offers a safety engineering control device used for the capture and filtration of airborne contaminants.

The latest piece of the shop-floor puzzle is ready to be put into place. The eNET QC Status Dashboard is a locally hosted software the works in conjunction with eNET Machine Monitoring to increase visibility and accountability throughout the QC Department for your QC first-piece inspection process.

Aerotech's XC4 PWM digital drive is a single-axis motor drive designed for brushless DC, brush DC, voice coil and stepper motors at up to 340 VDC operating voltage and 30 A peak current. All versions are compatible with the Automation 3200 motion platform utilizing the HyperWire motion bus.

The new EC-i 52XL 200W brushless servomotor from maxon is a powerhouse. When space is limited but high torque and dynamics are required, the maxon EC-i 52XL motor is a suitable motor choice.

Chinese factories make up a third of the "manufacturing lighthouses," or principal drivers for adopting new technology in the fourth Industrial Revolution, according to a list by the World Economic Forum and management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. These advances in smart manufacturing should be encouraging for China, but the country already is undermining them.

There's a common misconception that the manufacturing industry is almost universally male-dominated. In many people's minds, the industry is old fashioned, hanging on to dated gender biases and excluding women from managerial roles that are key to climbing the industry ladder, such as production supervisors and operations managers. But the fact is, manufacturers are more forward-thinking than ever before, and women now make up nearly one-third of the manufacturing industry workforce in the United States.

Wetmore Tool and Engineering of Chino, California, has been acquired by Dormer Pramet, the global manufacturer of cutting tool brands Precision Twist Drill, Dormer, Union Butterfield and Pramet.

Many versions of heat exchangers are used in different industries. After all, they help to make heat generated usable for other processes. In the case of recuperators, two liquid or gaseous media with different temperatures are pumped into separate circuits. A heat exchange takes place without mixing the media. Recuperators include bundle heat exchangers, which are usually made of metal and consist of a tube bundle that conducts a medium and an orifice baffle with a front tube plate through which a second medium flows.

Shops that struggle to machine microsized workpiece surfaces can now impart superior surface finishes and enhance accuracy and precision with the new Seco Tools JM100 Mini endmills. In micromachining operations with zero visibility of workpiece and cutting tool, the JM100 Mini delivers long tool life, stability and guaranteed surface quality thanks to its extremely precise geometries, virtually zero runout, advanced coatings and tight radius tolerances.

Kyocera Precision Tools' roughing endmills feature a multiple-edge design and internal coolant that make it the ideal tool for deep slotting (DOC = 2 times diameter) stainless steel and titanium alloys. The unique flutes are designed with serrated, round cutting edges to enhance chip flow.

BOLD Laser Automation Inc. announces the introduction of its precision Whisker Series Micro-wire Handling Components for guiding wire sizes from 35 (0.0056" in diameter) to 50 (0.001" in diameter) gauge.

Erie, PA—Eriez® President and CEO Tim Shuttleworth announces that Charlie Ingram has been promoted to the newly created position of Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, effective January 1, 2019.