Product News

Already reportedly well respected for accuracy, HEIDENHAIN adds versatility to its gaging line by expanding its length gage offerings with new variants of its successful in-line SPECTO and ACANTO gages.

HEIDENHAIN is pleased to announce the latest expansion of its gaging line, the ZERO-FORCE METRO Length Gage.

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.

Available from German Machine Tools of America (GMTA), the Präwema SynchroFine 205 HS gear honing machine features direct-driven, digitally controlled spindles for the tool and the workpiece, enabling precise, rigid synchronization.

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

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.

Industrial Magnetics Inc. introduced the WeighPlus crane scale, a programmable device that warns the operator if they are lifting an overload, thereby protecting them from an unsafe lifting situation.

CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels introduced an improved bond used in manufacturing vitrified wheels for the surface grinding, cylindrical and centerless wheel categories.

Mahr Federal has added a selectable resolution option to MarCator 1086 and 1087 digital indicators.

Mitutoyo America Corp. introduced the MiCAT Planner automatic measurement program generation software that uses 3D CAD models and product and manufacturing information (PMI) to enable one-click automated generation of measurement programs.

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.

Two liquid cleaners developed by Birchwood Technologies can be used on a wide variety of process lines, including blackening, phosphating or electroplating lines.

eNETDNC announces a new wireless USB DNC unit.

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

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

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

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.

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

Now available in configurations for threading, grooving and chamfering, Carmex says its expanded CMT line of vertical milling inserts delivers longer tool life, higher material removal, excellent surface finish, reduced cycle times, and lower cutting forces in materials up to 62 HRC steel.