A heavy-duty, high capacity vacuum lifter that is designed for handling heavy ferrous and nonferrous plate and sheet from the top for loading cutting tables is available from Anver Corp.
Triag workholding systems from Advanced Machine & Engineering/Hennig Inc. combine the characteristics and performance of a dedicated fixture in a modular platform.
Kistler has announced the availability of its piezoelectric accelerometer technologies for cost-effective, high-accuracy support of aircraft, helicopter, rotorcraft, missile, satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ground vibration testing (GVT), as well as large-scale MIMO and SIMO aerospace structural monitoring.
Carmex Precision Tools LLC's new BLU Grade thread turning inserts combine a newly developed sub-micrograin grade with PVD triple layer coating to deliver high strength, longer tool life, more accurate thread and better surface finish, even in the most difficult materials.
Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. explains how mounting a set of four Model 450 custom-designed air chucks on the customer's machine improves finishing efficiency.
No. 966 is a 1250°F, electrically-heated, inert atmosphere oven from Grieve, currently used for stress relief of machined steel at the customer's facility.
Now there's a fast and easy way to setup work pieces for machining at three common angles. Using Kurt's new Sine Parallels, rectangle parts can be clamped precisely and quickly at 30 degrees, 45 degrees and 60 degree angles.
Further enhancements to the recently-introduced Waveform Roughing strategy, and Quill Support for advanced milling, are just two of the significant features in the latest release of the CAM software, Edgecam, from the Vero group.
Hypertherm announced the availability of Duramax retrofit torches for five more plasma cutting systems: the Powermax600, Powermax800, Powermax900, MAX42 and MAX43.
The new Jenoptik Wavemove automated surface roughness and contour measuring system includes up to seven CNC axes for complete high-accuracy measurement and evaluation of complex shaft or prismatic parts such as automotive crankshaft, cylinder heads, engine blocks, transmission housings, and more on the production floor, close to manufacturing processes.
Hexagon Metrology offers the Sheffield 4.5.4 SF, a new line of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) built for the shop floor and designed to withstand harsh manufacturing environments.