Machine Tool Attachments & Accessories

Products • April 9, 2020

D3 and D1 Dryve Motor Control Systems

The D3 dryve controls simple linear or rotations axes with DC motors without any software or a PC. For more complex travels, such as with multi-axis robots or delta robots, igus offers the D1 drive, which is a control system for stepper motors, DC motors of EC/BLDC motors. The motor control system can be modified live or simply operated via a web browser.

Products • April 8, 2020

FineBeam BTA Drill Series AH8015 Grade Inserts

AH8015 consists of a nano-multilayered PVD coating with high aluminum content. This coating characteristic provides increased resistance against wear and built-up edge over existing grades, enabling long and predictable tool life during the machining of heat resistant superalloys and stainless steel.

News • March 28, 2020 • Alan Richter

Get ready for equipment as a service

With the arrival of Industry 4.0, a new business model is emerging for how part manufacturers acquire machine tools: equipment as a service (Eaas). Graham Immerman, vice president of marketing for Northampton, Massachusetts-based MachineMetrics Inc., effectively covers this topic in his new 12-page ebook/white paper titled "Equipment-as-a-Service: A Brave New World for Machine Tool Builders." In an interview with CTE, he said, "Instead of buying a machine and fully financing it or paying cash, you can pay as you use it."

Articles • March 13, 2020 • William Leventon

AI checks spindle health

Mazak's new Spindle Health Monitoring System tracks vital data.

Products • March 12, 2020

HH-30D Hybrid Hexapod

The HH-30D Hybrid Hexapod was developed by ALIO Industries to address the inherent performance limitations of conventional hexapods. ALIO's patented 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) design seamlessly blends and takes advantage of the strengths of serial and parallel kinematic structures while avoiding their weaknesses.

Products • March 11, 2020

A-311 Line of Low-Profile Planar XY Air Bearing Stages

PI adds to its compact A-311 line of low-profile planar XY air bearing stages. PI's U.S.-based air bearing R&D and manufacturing teams have created two new versions with travel ranges of 200mm x 200mm and 300mm x 300mm. Planar scanning stages are suitable for semiconductor inspection, laser marking, optical metrology and other precision motion applications.

Products • March 10, 2020

GN 817.6 Indexing Plunger With Integrated Sensor

Indexing plungers very often fulfill safety functions, but this isn't the only time when it is important to obtain feedback about their position. With the new series GN 817.6, JW Winco also allows automated status checks.

Products • February 28, 2020

REV Motorized Slotter

The REV motorized slotter is designed to solve, in the most efficient way, the problem of having to perform certain processing operations on a CNC lathe, from a simple keyway to internal or external toothed profiles.

Products • February 27, 2020

Garant Xtric Centering Vice With Center Jaw

Last year the Hoffmann Group presented the Garant Xtric centering vice with clamping jaw quick-change system in line with the "Click&Clamp" principle. From April 2020, the small powerhouse, which acts directly on the component with up to 25 kN clamping force and hardly creates any jaw and component lift-off, will also be available with a center jaw.

Products • February 26, 2020

Asymmetric XY Stages

Back in 2001, ALIO Industries started by creating solutions to meet demand from U.S.-based technology providers and manufacturers for nano-precision robotics. From that day to this the company has consistently pushed the boundaries in the achievement of ultimate precision in motion control. It is within this context that ALIO Industries has just announced another innovative nanomater-level precision positioning solution, its new Asymmetric XY stages.

News • February 20, 2020

Unlocking the power of high-frequency control data

Imagine you're trying to learn a new tune on the piano, but the sheet music only has one note out of every ten. Wouldn't that be pretty hard? That's what it's like learning what your machine is doing with data that only plays a few notes from the entire piece. Just like Chopin, a machine writes complex, nuanced melodies that get shortchanged when an incomplete picture is represented in the notes it plays, the data.

Products • February 20, 2020

AH9130 Drill Head Grade Series

Tungaloy is expanding its AH9130 drill head grade series to include the DMP drill head line of the DrillMeister head-changeable drill series.