General Machining & Manufacturing Processes

LMT Tools, a developer and producer of precision tools, announced two recent organizational changes.

Mexican cutting tool manufacturer SJ Tools wins #ANCATooloftheYear2022 for a cutting tool with five operations in one. nJG Group from Poland was a two-time winner in the virtual category.

More than most industries, aerospace component manufacturing machines have a lot of exotic alloys and hard metals like titanium. A byproduct of utilizing these materials is that more pressure is put on the machines, spindles, and retention knobs. The result is that the tools must be changed out more frequently as they dull or break.

Establish a controlled process to maintain tool life.

Standard features on the #9683128 10" Vertical Metal-Cutting Band Saw from Palmgren include: 3-speed belt driven system, machined cast iron table with miter gauge slot, balanced cast blade wheels and a rip fence assembly and miter gauge.

Product quality is a critically important consideration when purchasing electromechanical components, such as electric gear motors. But what does quality mean, and how do you evaluate it as a customer?

Recognized for his lifetime of leadership and investment in research that led to advances in machine tool and factory technologies, Brian J. Papke, former Chairman and now Executive Advisor to the Board of Mazak Corp., received the prestigious M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal of ASME/SME.

Abrasive Technology LLC, a manufacturer of superabrasive products, has named Clement Wiekrykas as the company's chief executive officer.

Dennis Spaeth, publisher of Cutting Tool Engineering, thanks everyone who visited the CTE booth at IMTS and offers website registrants a free CTE baseball cap while supplies last.n

Rollomatic SA Chief Product Officer Gert-Jan Hartog shows off the company's smart factory concept featuring a collaborative robot and a smart mobile manipulator, an automated guided vehicle equipped with a six-axis collaborative robot on top.

LMX linear motors comprise a metal track with multiple embedded rare earth magnets, and a coil assembly supported by a customer-supplied guideway. A key feature of the motors is that they are designed to operate with a comparatively large air gap of 1 mm, to reduce the impact of mounting tolerances on performance characteristics. For most machine tool applications, the track is held stationary and the coil assembly is free to move – but converse mounting arrangements are also practicable, with similar performance attributes.

Mastercam is the most widely used CAM for the 28th year in a row.