Product News

Siemens announces the launch of its Sinamics V20 Smart Access web server module, designed to mount directly onto the drive, transforming a mobile device or laptop into a virtual operator panel for drive control. By providing a wi-fi hot spot, the wireless connection on this module facilitates setup, programming, commissioning, production monitoring and maintenance on a variety of machines and production equipment.

In 2016, Eriez HydroFlow partnered with Milan, Italy-based Comat S.r.l. to bring SuperFiltration technology to North America, providing customers a long-awaited solution to remove particles down to 3-micron nominal from cutting fluid while maintaining a stable fluid temperature. Eriez reports this technology is generating strong activity and a positive response from the marketplace.

Aerotech’s HexGen hexapods represent a significant advance in six-degree-of-freedom positioning performance. The newest member of the HexGen family, the HEX300-230HL, is targeted at medium-load, ultraprecision applications ranging from sensor testing to synchrotron sample manipulation.

Eriez Flotation Division (EFD) announces the commissioning of a fully automated, four-stage lab-scale column circuit for flotation testing on sulfide and industrial minerals. Operating parameters such as air flow rate, wash water flow rate, reagent addition rates and pH level are regulated using a programmable logic controller (PLC).

Learning how to set up and program a collaborative robot – or cobot – no longer depends on real-life access to a robot or a training class. Now everybody with a desire to learn the concepts of cobots can log in to the Universal Robots Academy and get the introduction necessary to master basic programming skills.

Job sites are unpredictable, with environmental conditions and tasks that can vary widely from day to day. In response, 3M Personal Safety Division has expanded its SecureFit Protective Eyewear line by offering more features and deeper personalization with the debut of the new 3M SecureFit protective eyewear 600 series.

Walter has expanded the productive and cost effective Walter Titex Perform lineup of TC115/TC216 taps with an array of new sizes. The Perform lineup of products is one of three categories to Walter Titex threading tools. Perform tools are products that provide an economical solution with focused importance on price.

Many machines on the factory floor are able to deliver an enormous amount of information that can increase their productivity exponentially. With Smart Connectivity, Agathon offers a comprehensive Industry 4.0 package.

Material handling equipment and safety products manufacturer Wildeck Inc. has introduced a new product category for vertical material lifts. The new “RML” product category is a major advancement over a traditional “VRC” (vertical reciprocating conveyor) because it allows authorized personnel to safely travel with their material between levels.

Jergens Inc. introduces its new forged line of center pull hoist rings to expand the company’s range of lifting products. The compact, high strength construction delivers reliable performance, economy and is ideal for OEM and industrial use.

Diehl Tool Steel offers Hitachi Metals America’s SLD-i cold work premium tool steel, an advanced tool steel grade used in various blanking and forming application where AHSS parts are processed. It is produced using the same heat treatment as D2 but exhibits better wear and toughness when used for forming sections.

igus offers standard “readychain” ready-to-use robotic dress packs for simple installation as well as multi-axis cable guidance and protection. In automated plants and other manufacturing facilities, downtime creates a critical situation. Once production stops, every minute counts, making new standard, fully assembled dress packs for industrial robots suitable to get systems back up and running.

The AGS (Advanced Grinding System) from Tratech Corp. is a specialty-built CNC grinding machine for the demanding needs of machining fully sintered ceramics at a competitive price point. The AGS is a 3-axis CNC machine that includes integrated coolant filtration and temperature control, as well as mist control.

Klüber Lubrication offers ALTEMP Q NB 50, a white/beige lubricating paste containing a mineral base oil, a barium complex soap and inorganic solid lubricants. ALTEMP Q NB 50 is used as a universal assembly paste, offering benefits especially in friction points with small to minimum motion under high static and dynamic loads.

The expanded contour machining cycle for Sinumerik CNCs now facilitates 4-axis turning on lathes. Two turning tools, opposite one another, machine the workpiece simultaneously enabling the machining time to be significantly reduced.

The Illinois Lock Co. RapidCam spring bolt cam adapter replaces the flat steel cam used on traditional cam locks with a glass-filled Nylon 66 latch. The spring-loaded latch features an angled design, so that when in locked position, closing action simply moves the latch down, avoiding damage, then immediately moves it back into locked position.

Fives introduces the next product out of its ID/OD line-up to the market. The Landis-Bryant UL2 is an internal high-speed production grinder, ideal for processing bores, faces and contours of bearing rings, valve lifters, gears, universal joint cups and CVJ components, especially suitable for machining workpieces with an external diameter of up to 177 mm.

Emuge Corp. announced it has expanded its EF-Series of high-penetration rate drills with a new line of submicrograin carbide coolant-fed microdrills. The EF high-performance microdrills range from 0.0295 in. (0.75 mm) up to 0.1181 in. (3.0 mm) in diameter, are all coolant through design, and are ideal for aerospace, medical and precision automotive applications designed for producing very small deep holes in steel, cast iron, stainless steels and nonferrous materials.

Baileigh Industrial Inc. is launching a new campaign for one of the most successful products in its product line: the BB-4816M - Magnetic Sheet Metal Brake. Sized to fit any garage or workshop, the recently improved Magnetic Sheet Metal Brake can bend boxes or pans to almost any depth because it doesn’t rely on conventional finger depths.

EXSYS Tool’s 90-degree Skiving Drilling and Milling Head not only provides angled drilling and milling capabilities on turning centers, but also enables the machines to perform gear skiving operations. The new head cuts gear patterns faster than conventional gear shaping or broaching methods and generates both internal and external gears with helical profiles, as well as gears close to part shoulders without interference.