General Machining & Manufacturing Processes

If you're a manufacturer wanting to take your first steps toward the internet of things and you're overwhelmed by the plethora of vendors and IoT platforms in the IoT space, you're not alone. IoT is still a new space with many moving parts and products. This makes it hard for organizations to know exactly where and how to get started.

The new Gold Series X-Flo (GSX) industrial dust collector from Camfil APC is built on 20 years of successful performance of the company's award-winning Gold Series collector. GSX dust collectors are suitable for industrial applications that produce or process fine, fibrous and heavy dusts and fumes.

CleanSpace Technology has launched the CleanSpace Ultra powered respirator with full face mask. Featuring no hoses, belt mounted battery packs or cables makes CleanSpace a light, easy and comfortable unit to wear in industrial settings.

Stopping moving parts in target positions and locking them into place is a common requirement for plant and machinery engineers. Their favored method for doing this is often the index plunger, with the cam-operated version being particularly popular. Engineering components manufacturer WDS Component Parts Ltd. offers a wide range of index plungers and is a leading authority on the technology.

The challenge racing across businesses today is how to improve, scale and sustain an excellent customer experience (CX). CX is the sum of all the customer's interactions, good, bad or indifferent, with a company's products, services and other support services that the customer encounters in their pre-, during and post-purchase activities.

Ray Salazar, equipment builder engineer at ExxonMobil Corp., discusses the Mobil DTE 10 Excel Series, an industrial lubricant line of energy-efficient hydraulic oils. Benefits include productivity, sustainability and safety.

To support reliable production, the Automation Systems division of Liebherr has developed a range of four applications that support Industry 4.0 initiatives. A control system, LMS 4.0 (Liebherr Manufacturing System), permits customers to choose individually configurable software packages that meet their requirements for 4.0 applications.

For machining a wide range of complex parts complete in a single work cycle, the new MT 733 series vertical spindle mill-turn centers from STAMA, a member of CHIRON Group, is capable of six-sided/simultaneous 5-axis machining, including milling and turning from bar or from chucked parts in lot sizes as low as 1. The highly flexible machines are designed to fit the needs of aerospace, automotive and medical parts manufacturers.

Mencom Protocol Gateway series can provide an efficient and economical solution for the cumbersome network update by seamlessly integrating new protocols into the existing layout and connecting them to outdated protocols. The supported protocols are Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP, Profinet RT/IRT, DNP3.0 Ethernet, DNP3.0 Serial, IEC 60870-5-101, IEC 60870-5-103, IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61850 devices, and PLCs.

As of now, component manufacturers can enrich the 3D CAD models of their electronic product catalog based on the eCATALOGsolutions technology by CADENAS, with individual textures and material properties and thus present their products even more realistically. The respective colors and three-dimensional surface structures of the components can now be simulated in 2D and 3D preview mode within the product catalog as well as on the 3D CAD download portal PARTcommunity.

The OLFA XH-AL is designed with a cushioned rubber grip on a chemical-resistant handle for long lasting use. It features a stainless steel blade channel that extends the full length of the knife to support heavy-duty cutting for industrial materials such as gaskets, flexible conduit, belt synthetics, rope, laminates, plastics, fiberglass and rubber.

JVL's newest additions to its portfolio is a complete, high-capacity MAC motor with rating of 3,000W. MAC motors are complete servo systems including a high-dynamic AC servo motor, hall-sensors, encoder, power supply, driver and positioning controller and Nano-PLC, as well as facilities for incorporating various control modules such as Bluetooth, WLAN, ZigBee, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, CANopen, DeviceNet, Profibus, Profinet, Nano PLC, RS232/RS485/USB and Process Control.