Automation & Controls

News • November 20, 2015

GF Machining Solutions select new sales and applications directors

GF Machining Solutions has appointed a new director of sales and a new director of applications to its leadership team. Don McMillan and Tony Salvado now fill these critical roles to enhance the sales, service and support for the company's milling, EDM and laser texturing solutions.

News • November 11, 2015

Trumpf announces 2016 expansion

In October 2015, TRUMPF purchased approximately five acres of land adjacent to Interstate Highway 90 in Hoffman Estates, Ill., a northwestern suburb of Chicago. Located within one of the core zones of the sheet metal business in North America, this site will serve as the future home of the TRUMPF Technology Center and the center of excellence for Industry 4.0, according to the company.

Articles • October 1, 2015 • Christopher Tate

Lean drives modularity

Cutting Tool Engineering's Shop Technology column in October addresses how lean manufacturing principles have changed the way engineers program machine tools and select tooling.

Products • August 1, 2015

Type 9139AA Dynamometer

Kistler is adding a new member to its family of horizontally pretensioned stationary dynamometers: the Type 9139AA dynamometer.

Products • August 1, 2015

DMG Mori Live Tool Spindles

ITI Tooling Co. Inc. offers DMG MORI live tool spindles.

Products • August 1, 2015

SBN Cutting Tool System

Indexable finishing inserts have arrived with the new EDGE(2) Spherical ball nose (SBN) system from DAPRA Corp.

Products • August 1, 2015

GT 326-E Bar Feeder

GT 326-E, the newest automatic magazine bar feeder for sliding headstock machines from LNS, loads 12' long bar stock with diameters from 3mm to 20mm (26mm with bar prep).

Products • July 1, 2015

BIS V RFID System

Balluff has completed the release of its latest industrial RFID system, the BIS V.

Products • July 1, 2015

Crown-Type Live Tool Turrets

Available from ITI Tooling Co. Inc., the SAUTER family of crown-type live tool turrets, typically used on multi-station and in-line transfer machines, has recently been upgraded and expanded, with the largest having a standard drive motor rating of up to 20 hp.

News • July 1, 2015

Robotics teams test ‘metal’ to improve rescue efforts

Nearly two dozen robots competed head-to-head on a course designed to replicate rescue efforts amid disaster conditions during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge held June 5 and 6 in Pomona, Calif. At stake: $3.5 million in prize money.

News • June 28, 2015

LNA partners with Fanuc Robotics

LNA has been appointed as a Fanuc Robotics Authorized Integrator to provide customers with automated laser marking solutions. Combined with LNA's experience with high-performance lasers and applications, customers benefit from lower manufacturing costs, vastly improved throughput, repeatability and resolution, according to the company.

Articles • June 1, 2015 • Alan Richter

Finger on the pulse

A direct-drive, servomotor robotic finger.