Software & Digital Solutions

News • May 23, 2024

Plasma, waterjet and software products from Hypertherm at FABTECH Canada

Hypertherm Associates, a U.S.-based manufacturer of industrial cutting products and software, is gearing up for FABTECH Canada 2024, a metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event.

Articles • May 21, 2024

Improving the Threading Process

Vargus GENius app helps company choose a threading tool.n

Videos • April 24, 2024

Bourbon With The Editor – Exploring Machining Calculators with The Machining Doctor

Dennis Spaeth discusses the growth of machiningdoctor.com, a website featuring calculators for machinists, created by Erez Speiser. Launched in 2020, the site has expanded significantly, with Speiser dedicating himself full-time in 2023. The conversation covers the website's features, including milling calculators, and Speiser's motivation for its creation during the pandemic. Future collaborations and social activities are also mentioned.

Articles • April 17, 2024

Process and workforce optimization

Caron Engineering needed a smart, secure RFID reader to perform five key functions.n

Articles • April 15, 2024 • William Leventon

Sizing up software

Spotting and dealing with CAD/CAM issues is crucial to manufacturing success.

Products • April 15, 2024

New Interactive Digital Catalog!

EXAIR's catalog offers readers an incredible source of innovative solutions for common industrial problems like conveying, cooling, cleaning, blowoff, drying, coating and static buildup. To make this useful resource more readily available, EXAIR.com has now launched a fully digital and interactive version of Catalog 35 for easy browsing and added accessibility. Customers will now be able to view, download, print and save either the full catalog, or specific pages and sections.

News • March 22, 2024

Concepts NREC acquires rotordynamics specialist

Concepts NREC a developer of software, engineering, and manufacturing solutions for the turbomachinery industry, has acquired RBTS, Inc., a company known for its expertise in rotordynamics engineering and software solutions.

News • March 19, 2024

Mastercam appoints new president

Mastercam, a provider of CAM software, has appointed Susan Brandt as its new president, effective February 12.

News • February 29, 2024

ModuleWorks Partners With DN Solutions on machine tool software

ModuleWorks, a software provider for the CAD/CAM industry, has partnered with DN Solutions, a CNC machine tool builder, involving equity investment and business cooperation.

Products • February 13, 2024

Affordability Calculator

Customers using the costing table can change the model to suit their needs, so each of the SmartBench products can be costed precisely. The table also allows customers to include items such as how many hours they wish to use their CNC machine, and for how many days per week.

Products • February 6, 2024

TraceBoss+

TraceBoss+ software interfaces with most portable surface roughness gages. A user can take a measurement, view the results and graphics full screen, save data, and reload it for comparison and statistical process control. It reports most common roughness parameters, showing at a glance whether a surface passes or fails user-provided limits.

Products • February 1, 2024

SigmaNEST 24 Suite

SigmaNEST 24 has expanded the Task Dialog to provide greater situational awareness to the NC programmer for handling multiple projects at one time. Within the Task Window, users can create and load jobs, access workspace task reports and apply new commands to multiple tasks. Users can also monitor key statistics such as sheet consumption and scrap percentages. Beta users have reported that the new Task Window cuts programming to a small fraction of the time needed to program each job individually.