Product News

The firearms industry is currently a robust sector of the U.S. industrial economy. To assist manufacturers of small arms with growing volumes of barrels, Precihole Machine Tools, distributed by Absolute Machine Tools Inc., has introduced a dedicated manufacturing cell to improve the efficiency of producing barrels.

In "The Art of Welding" from Industrial Press Inc., Ryan Friedlinghaus adds practical knowledge to William Galvery's acclaimed welding insight and everyday tips and tricks developed over his long professional career as an educator and earlier as a hands-on welder.

GTI Predictive Technology Inc., creators of the iPad Vibration Analyzer, offers a complete predictive maintenance solution for iPad.

Elbo Controlli, distributed through Koma Precision Inc., is continuing its advancement into the tool management market with a new generation of tool presetters.

Machine manufacturers are increasingly demanding cost-optimized hydraulic cylinders with a high degree of reliability. Bosch Rexroth meets these demands with the new CDL2 mill type cylinder for both pressure ranges of 160 and 250 bars.

SICK announced the launch of the SAM inductive sensor for speed and acceleration monitoring.

An upgraded welding end prep tool for machining high temperature, high pressure pipe used on severe-duty offshore piping systems and shale pumping stations is being introduced by ESCO Tool.

With ever greater importance being put upon the productivity, accuracy and overall quality of holemaking, the Tungaloy Corp. has developed its new TungSix-Drill to enhance all these facts for end users.

Nanovea introduced in 2013 the N3 line dedicated to providing high-end measurement technology to the broader market.

Hexagon Metrology has released the WLS qFLASH, a compact white light solution (WLS) that utilizes state-of-the-art blue light technology, for industrial measurement applications.

Eriez HydroFlow permanent magnetic and rare earth coolant cleaners are for use with surface grinders, gear grinders, honing and lapping machines, broaches, milling and drilling machines, face grinders, oil reclaiming machines and essentially anywhere else clean coolant is needed.

A manufacturer of commercial truck cabs had concerns about potential damage to aluminum stringers it needed to transport from its warehouse kitting operations to production lines. The aluminum stringers are 2' and 4' slender products and susceptible to damage if not handled properly. They were looking for carts that would allow them to easily load and unload the stringers then safely transport them through the plant. They turned to Creform Corp. to provide a solution.

ISCAR is further extending the application range of the current HGAIR/L and HFAIR/L face grooving adapters.

An expanded line of cotton fiber finishing sticks for deburring and finishing precision cast or machined parts with tough to access areas is being introduced by Rex-Cut Abrasives.

ISCAR is expanding the range of SWISSTURN square-shank toolholders by adding new tools for high pressure coolant and also tools without the internal coolant feature.

Drivers are already used to the sixth gear, and the development continues. There are plans afoot for an automatic gearbox for a 9-gear transmission system. The reason is obvious, since it allows the car to be driven at optimal speeds for longer intervals and that saves fuel. Together with the continuing pressure to optimize, high volume gear production must become faster and cheaper. The EMAG Group has demonstrated their solution: the VLC 200 H Vertical Hobbing Machine that adds a new dimension to productivity levels.

No. 907 is an electrically-heated inser atmospher walk-in over from Grieve, currently used for heat treating graphite tooling molds at a customer's facility.

With the GrindSmartNano5, Swiss grinding machine manufacturer Rollomatic has developed a high-performance grinding machine for the series production of dental and medical tools that not only grinds an impressive range of tools, but does so fully automatically, without any operator intervention.

Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc.'s new WGX Wave Mill Series, used for all facemilling applications, features excellent surface finish and eliminates burrs due to a unique insert chipbreaker design.

ReverseEngineering.com announced the next major release for SolidWorks 2014, the latest version of its feature-based 3D scanning point cloud tools fully-integrated inside Solidworks 2014 modeling engine.