General Machining & Manufacturing Processes

Tour the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor, presented as a video complement to our March cover story.

The O-INSPECT multisensor measuring machine from Carl Zeiss allows the very easy, very accurate and thus very efficient inspection of complex parts.

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. has delivered a large tempering batch oven to a leading East Coast manufacturer of precision grinding equipment.

SICK announced it has launched the Inspector P30 Positioning Sensor. The Inspector P series offers a flexible method for part location and provides a precise positioning point of a known target.

MSC Filtration Technologies now offers a standard line of Tramp Oil Separators (TOS) providing extended coolant sump life by removing liquid and solid contaminants that cause coolants to lose their effectiveness.

New DAYLube high performance grease, which uses nanoceramic particles that act as sub-microscopic ball bearings to provide continuous lubrication to steel surfaces, is now available in 1 and 5-gallon pails from Dayton Progress Inc.

Renishaw says Equator is a radical new alternative to traditional dedicated gaging, filling a gap in the market never before addressed.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has developed a new 5-face plano miller type machining center, the "MVR-5X," suitable for machining of free-form curved surfaces such as aircraft parts and metallic molds.

Sanborn Technologies has introduced a line of NF (Nanofiltration) membrane systems for recycling the rinse water from dye penetrant inspection stations.

In deep-hole drilling applications up to 30XD, new solid-carbide WIDIA-Rubig deep-hole drills reportedly remove between three and four times the metal compared to gun drills, in addition to delivering excellent hole quality and cycle times.

Seco Tools has announced additions to its line of Feedmax solid-carbide drills that avoid delamination upon entry or exit when drilling in carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials.

Seco Tools has announced the availability of its new Feedmax SD230A solid carbide 30xD drill, which was designed for applications often found in the automotive, oil and gas, mold and die, medical and general engineering industries.