Product News

Stock Drive Products offers miniature pillow block ball bearings from Spyraflo.

The IF-Profiler, by Alicona, is a non-contact measuring system to measure surface roughness including form.

After significant product introductions and strategic corporate acquisitions, HEIDENHAIN Corp. now offers a comprehensive line of inspection and gauging products.

HEIDENHAIN has developed the ERM 2200 magnetic rotary encoder series with a 200-micron signal period.

Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. introduces the Model 650 Sliding Jaw air chuck.

Gibbs and Associates announced the availability of its new 5-Axis Porting option for GibbsCAM.

STROTHMANN now also offers quadro turnstiles for the RoundTrack 40 system.

SICK announced the launch of the DFS2X line of programmable incremental encoders.

Yamazen Inc. announces the U.S. debut and distribution of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) series of table-type horizontal boring mills, known as the "MAF-E Series."

A portable welding end prep tool that features air-operated clamping which reduces cycle times for highly repetitive end prep milling in fabrication shops is available from ESCO Tool.

The new retrofit reCool coolant-through system from REGO-FIX is a quick, cost-effective and low-maintenance way to bring the benefits of internal cooling to the live tooling used in CNC turning operations.

The Gi-360 T (tilt) high-speed laser inspection system from General Inspection provides a host of benefits.

NVision Inc. recently reverse engineered the rotor assembly, diffusers and diaphragm of a turbine for a major turbomachinery engineering firm in Texas.

Walter USA LLC has unveiled a series of new inserts to its Walter Xtra-tec Point Drill lineup, which reportedly provide the optimal drilling solution for the heat exchanger industry.

OMAX Corp. announced the launch of a version of its Intelli-MAX Software Suite, an intuitive control software that automatically optimizes the tool paths of the company's advanced abrasive waterjet systems. Intelli-MAX 20 incorporates several enhanced features that improve the speed and memory utilization of OMAX waterjets as well as new tools that allow for increased operator efficiency.

When compressed air is used to blow off oil, dust and other debris from machined parts on the factory floor, these contaminants become airborne and can affect the health and safety of machine operators. The new LNS SC500 Spray Cabin remedies this problem by providing a compact, mobile enclosure for this process that uses a highly effective air filtration system to remove 99 percent of contaminants.

HEIDENHAIN has released the newest software for the compact but versatile contouring control, the TNC 320.

Amacoil/Uhing has announced a linear speed control option for Model RG rolling ring linear drives.

Mahr Federal has introduced a long range indicator calibrator, the OPTIMAR 25. A precision benchtop instrument, the OPTIMAR 25 can be used for the calibration of a wide variety of precision measuring instruments.

Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc. introduces the high performance BN7000 turning system for the machining of cast iron.