General Machining & Manufacturing Processes

WARDJet's FREE Feed Rate Calculator helps you determine the optimized speed for cutting your material.

Emuge Corp. has introduced the KSN5 and KSN6 Softsynchro tap holders.

Free from Sandvik Coromant, the new Drilling App for iPhones is designed to offer a quick and easy way for machine shops to calculate cycle times and costs for all drilling and tapping operations.

Command Tooling Systems LLC offers a line of driven tools for Swiss-type machines.

Sandvik Coromant has introduced the CoroDrill 460-XM. The new drill is a multi-application, high-performance drill that can be used across a wide range of materials.

Mahr Federal has introduced a new Android App that lets users measure common surface roughness parameters using their Smartphones and other Android operating system devices.

Mechanical Concentrate Mixers from Eriez Hydroflow eliminate the traditional manual fluid mixing methods which often result in imprecise concentration control.

Sodick Inc. is releasing two new machines, the AQ750LH and the AQ1200LH.

During IMTS 2012 in September, the Morris Group Inc. announced an exclusive agreement with SU-matic, a subsidiary of Suhner Holding AG of Switzerland. The deal means Velocity Products, a division of the Morris Group, will supply the North American metalworking industry with tooling for Okuma lathes, multitasking machines and machining centers.

Andrew Benson, co-general manager and chief marketing officer at Iscar Metals Inc., spoke with Don Nelson, publisher of Cutting Tool Engineering and MICROmanufacturing magazines, during IMTS 2012 to discuss the company's 60th anniversary and a variety of new products.

Peter Kummerle, applicationsengineer with United Grinding Technologies, offers an on-camera overview of the Helitronic Vision Long, which is said to expand production capabilities on tools up to 700mm long without exceeding the working envelope of the classical Helitronic Vision.

Datron Dynamics Vice President Bob Murphy offers an overview of the M10 Pro, considered to be the "next generation" in the company's line of high-speed machining centers. The M10 Pro features linear scales on all axes driven by over-sized motors and drives that yield a +/- 5µm-position accuracy.