Product News

Achieving the best results in deep-hole drilling calls for capable and reliable tools. To this end, tool manufacturer InovaTools is offering new double-cut deep-hole drills with internal cooling, designed precisely for the particular challenges of this special application in terms of substrate, geometry and chip clearance.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has expanded its FEELER FT-Series high-performance CNC turning centers line with the new FT-250SY.

OPEN MIND Technologies AG has released hyperMILL ShopViewer, a proprietary visualization solution for the workshop.

Mitsui Seiki has evolved its popular "Vertex 550-5X" line of machines with new features and capabilities, and a broader range of options and configurations within the series.

In the US, many high volume tubing suppliers have moved production facilities overseas to low cost producers like China or Mexico. Minimum buys are now the rule, leaving many US manufacturers with a quandary – How to get small quantities of a wide variety of tubing needed for research and development or smaller production runs.

Using the combined experience of authors Ray Floyd and Richard Spencer, "So You Want To Be An Engineer?" from Industrial Press Inc. provides students and engineers practical knowledge of what to expect as they enter the engineering field to pursue a career.

Expanding its offerings of synchronous motors, HEIDENHAIN Corp. introduces the new QSY 260B and QSY 260C EcoDyn series of servomotors with stall torque of 85.0 Nm and 120.0 Nm, respectively.

Edmund Isakov, Ph.D., developed a threading calculator, which is functioning in Excel formulas.

Loftware Inc. announced significant enhancements to its 100 percent browser based, all-in-one Enterprise Labeling Solution, releasing Loftware Spectrum 2.5.2.

Eriez HydroFlow Refractometers are simple yet rugged instruments that give users the ability to quickly determine the concentration of metalworking coolants and cleaners, heat-treating fluids, water-based hydraulic fluids and plating baths.

Schaffner EMC introduces the ECOSine Active 30/50/100A, a harmonic filter which provides harmonic compensation in real-time.

eNETDNC announces a new wireless USB DNC unit.

Mahr Federal Inc. has introduced a new high-precision measuring station to measure and evaluate optical components, including freeform, aspheric, and spherical lenses.

Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. introduces its newest expanding mandrel collet chuck.

Okuma's GI-10NII is equipped with extremely rigid, high-speed grinding wheel spindles that produce high-performance production in automated environments.

Doosan's Lynx 220LSY Series is a range of affordable, compact and high-speed Multi-Tasking Turning Centers featuring a Y-axis, an important feature, as milling and drilling capabilities of the Y-axis do away with the need for secondary machining operations that might otherwise be performed on, say, a milling machine.

TESA management recently discontinued production of its Brown & Sharpe Standard bore and snap gages. Mahr Federal bore and snap gages are available to replace these TESA products.

Palmgren Steel Products Inc. says its self-centering, low-profile machine vise is ideal to use with drilling and milling machines whenever quick, accurate centering of the workpiece below the spindle is required.

Birchwood Technologies' ION EXCHANGE System purifies rinse water for reuse in metal finishing systems.

The new, affordable AccuteX "Great Economy" (GE) Wire EDMs from Absolute Machine Tools, advertised at $89,000, reportedly combine high cutting speed and accuracy.