General Shop Equipment & Supplies

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Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. offers its AMROK brand tombstones in epoxy-mineral material, available in various standard shapes and sizes.

GMN says its new range of high-speed spindles with highly efficient hydroviscous damping reduces natural vibrations by up to 65 percent in comparison with standard spindles.

K2D-KeyToData GmbH announced today the availability of the latest versions of InspectionXpert that includes many customer-driven enhancements for even faster creation of first article inspections.

Most manufacturers don't want their production workers watching TV on the job. That is changing with the introduction of Global Shop Solutions' new shop floor data display platform named TrueView. Designed to display job dispatch data on large TV monitors mounted on shop floor walls, this new product of Global Shop Solutions ERP software promises to modernize the job dispatch process and help manufacturers improve production times.

The RCP-DELTA from Aerotech Inc. is available in four models that support payloads up to 3 kg, with X/Y operating ranges of 500/800/1100/1300mm, and an optional continuous rotation about the Z-axis (yaw).

Horner APG released the latest In its leading XL seires of All-in-One controllers: the EXL6 OCS Controller, offering enhanced resolution, and faster logic execution than the previous XL6 OCS Controller, partnered with the ease-of-use and functionality of its predecessors.

TE-CO Manufacturing LLC offers locator master jaw set with built-in workstop pins.

Verisurf Software Inc. launched the new CMM Master programmable coordinate measuring machine system.

Flow International Corp. offers this brief animated video demonstration of the waterjet machining process.

Metalworking is becoming increasingly specialized, with manufacturers of lathes and grinders offering a variety of capacities, bed lengths and other options. This promises the user the ability to create custom machining solutions to "meet any production need." While this is true to a point, standard options have their limits, and truly customized machines cost more and have extended delivery times.

Shafts and tubes are straightened using the same flame straightening techniques used for plates. An easy way to straighten a shaft is in V-blocks or, better yet, mounted between centers in a lathe using piped coolant.