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MFGAxis — Buyer’s Guide
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Machining Calculators
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Insert Geometry
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Boring
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Cutting Forces
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Efficient, reliable and sustainable cleaning
The right cleaning process ensures product quality and cost-effectiveness.n
M-1000iA Robot
The M-1000iA's serial-link construction gives the robot a wider range of motion in every direction. It can extend its arm upright or rotate it backwards, which is not possible for typical heavy-payload robots with a parallel-link mechanism. With a 1000 kg payload, a 3,253mm horizontal reach, and a 4,297mm vertical reach the M-1000iA is ready to go to work for manufacturers looking to increase output and maximize their production line's efficiency.
MCOSMOS Version 5.0
What distinguishes MCOSMOS v.5 from its predecessor are the upgrades to its interface, functions, and performance. Most noticeable from launch is the new and simplified graphical user interface: The updates made to this are not only visually pleasing but also assist in improving the user experience, no matter their level of knowledge working with the tool. These changes include easy-to-use "ribbons" and a much-requested search function, assisting operators in finding specific sections of their measuring process for detailed reports.
AA3000 Electric Cylinders
The integrated mechanism – composed of precise roller bearings, ball screw and guide – provides backlash-free, purely translatory motion. Furthermore, this results in very compact dimensions. The shaft end of the spindle features an external thread to mount conventional adapters, such as ball heads or clamping hooks typically used with pneumatic/hydraulic devices.
Swivel Pad Indexing Levers
The levers are available with L or T shaped handles. With the L shaped clamping handle, it can be lifted and moved back to continue tightening in the presence of an obstruction. The T handle enables less flexibility of movement but enables easy adjustment with a two-sided grip option. Both designs are ideally suited to tightening clamps on machinery or jigs, through to adjusting the position of office or domestic equipment.
PrimeTurning Machining
PrimeTurning Machining. Watch Cutting Tool Engineering's video coverage, featuring original footage and context from the related product, process, event, or shop-floor demonstration.
Gear maker uses optical measuring machine on incoming materials
"Before purchasing a Vicivision, we had to use a variety of different machines," explained a representative for Didimo Zanetti, a leader in the production of gears, as he opens the doors of the workshop and details how quality control worked before investing in an optical measuring machine.
VoluMill Milling
VoluMill Milling. Watch Cutting Tool Engineering's video coverage, featuring original footage and context from the related product, process, event, or shop-floor demonstration.
Military veterans make a difference at Mazak
Veterans provide important transferrable skills throughout the Mazak company.n
Product Guide for Right Angle Grinding
Explained in the guide, Norton abrasives are classified in BEST, BETTER, and GOOD performance/ price tiers to help users choose the right product for a specific application. The product guide is color-coded for the eight key application processes found in metal fabrication including cutting, heavy-duty grinding, stock removal, blending/ refining, deburring, surface preparation/ cleaning, finishing, and polishing. A "BEST product" solution is referenced for each application. In addition, an application matrix provides a product selection guide divided by material and cost requirement, whether by performance or economy criteria.
Norton | Saint-Gobain strives for gold with USA luge team
Saint-Gobain Abrasives, one of the world's largest abrasives manufacturers and primary sponsor of the USA Luge Team, celebrated the 40th anniversary of its partnership with the luge team during the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Makrolite 4K
Makrolite 4K is flexible, easy to use, and provides high definition video images with a wide dynamic range and up to 330x magnification. It delivers both versatility and high performance in applications such as production, lab research, R&D, micro assembly, quality control, inbound/outbound product checking, dissection and re-work.
