General Shop Equipment & Supplies

WIDIA has a saying: "Extreme Challenges — Extreme Results." In the future of what some have coined Industry 4.0, extreme opportunities exist in the digital integration of tooling data and knowledge to the shop floor. Extreme results are possible through integrating accurate, complete tool data, rules, and application knowledge digitally to dramatically rethink and shorten process planning, adding real value to CAD/CAM, CNCs, presetting, inventory management, and more. This is what WIDIA envisions with their launch of its NOVO desktop and tablet application: on demand cutting edge delivery of cutting tool data and expertise for reduced product development and manufacturing lead times.

The KSO from Schunk Inc. is a specially developed single-acting clamping vise and can be easily adjusted to customer-specific specific requirements.

Third Wave Systems announced its enhanced indexable drilling capability.

Schmitt Industries Inc. announced the SB-2000, a fixed-installation system for single and dual plane manual balancing, and the SB-2000-P for portable applications.

Bosch Rexroth has released version 4.0 of its popular GoTo Products app, a convenient mobile app for customers of Rexroth's GoTo Focused Delivery Program.

The Eriez 5-Star Service Team is available, even on short notice, to service and repair equipment on-site at customers' facilities.

Higher productivity through intelligent functions is an increasingly critical factor in the competitive ability of machine tools. Machinery manufacturers are therefore looking for ways to add new and unique functions while protecting their know-how at the same time. Open Core Engineering from Rexroth offers many such functional advancements with the CNC system solution IndraMotion MTX.

SPRING Technologies announces the release of NCSIMUL Machine 9.2, flagship of its NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS portfolio.

Minneapolis machine shop NTM Inc. is now certified to regrind and refurbish KOMET tools, manufacture solid carbide tools and to provide KOMET brand standard solid carbide tools as the sixth KOMET SERVICE Partner in North America. On June 12, NTM and KOMET of America, Schaumburg, Ill., held a celebration to mark the official start of NTM's KOMET SERVICE Partnership. Attendees included representatives from KOMET of America, as well as NTM employees' families and NTM's customers and business partners.

Mazak Corp. says its new SMOOTH TECHNOLOGY is a complete process-performance platform that spans the entire part-production landscape, from programming and setup to metal-removal operations to automation to monitoring/data collection and transfer.

A shop surface grinding 12" x 36" plates has to remove 1/8" of material on both sides, but the cycle time is a killer. To find a way to reduce the cycle time, the shop turned to Dr. Jeffrey Badger, author of the "Ask the Grinding Doc" column in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine and the host of our Grinding Doc Video Series.

Diaphragm chucks are ideal for thin-walled parts or parts made with delicate materials, according to the Workholding column in the August 2014 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.