General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Theorem's latest Publish 3D V18.3 is now available with new and improved product features and enhancements for the CATIA Composer user needing to work with JT data.

After years of developing and testing possible solutions, MachineWorks says it has produced a new algorithm for 5-axis swept volume generation.

Air-operated bench presses from Palmgren reduce the cost of both implementation and production in assembly and pressing operations.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 71752 fork heads (yokes), plain fork type, steel or stainless steel, in inch sizes.

Hardinge Workholding now offers 5-day delivery on its TF25 Extended Nose Swiss Collet. The collet features added nose length—flat or tapered—for performing pick-off work or to compensate for tooling interference. When ordering, customers need to provide hole size (ID), length of extension and nose diameter. (The nose diameter must be at least 0.125" larger than the ID.) Standard collets and bushings from www.ShopHardinge.com are delivered in 24 hours.

Mettler Toledo's new PBK9 and PFK9 weighing platforms provide superior accuracy and reliability in harsh industrial conditions, with sufficient flexibility to be used for many applications, according to the company. The platforms notify the operator when recalibration or adjustments are necessary due to environmental changes, and automated calibration with a built-in calibration weight and plug-in cables allows for easy maintenance.

Efficiently deburr machined hydraulic manifolds. A machine that deburrs via thermal energy.

Increase wire EDM capacity and cutting speed. Replace two old, technologically obsolete wire EDMs with two new ones.

Manager's Desk column covers the ups and downs experienced in the shop this year lead to hard decisions, including staff reductions.

While machine tool CNCs continue to evolve, one development expands that process beyond what a control typically represents. Mazak's Smooth Technology is a complete process-performance technology platform that spans the part production landscape from programming and setup to metal-removal operations to automation to data collection, monitoring and transfer.

This month Cutting Tool Engineering covers a chip-pulling system developed for more efficient turning.