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Seco Assistant App
Seco Assistant's machining calculator gives you turning, milling and holemaking data for any brand including feeds, speeds and material removal rate. The Tool Comparison function gives you Seco tool recommendations and alternatives to other manufacturer's inserts, while the Suggest function helps you find the right tooling option and cutting strategies for specific jobs.
Submarines to be built with Australia’s largest machine tool
The Australian Government has ordered the construction of a fleet of 12 regionally superior submarines, known as the Attack Class, for the Royal Australian Navy. A 5-axis gantry machine from The Starrag Group is a critical piece of equipment for the decades-long project.nn
Platinum Tooling presents a 2020 virtual booth
Platinum Tooling Technologies recently created a video highlighting the products the company would have exhibited at its booth during IMTS had the 2020 trade show not been canceled due to the pandemic.
CNC machine tending with Haas ST20SS & UR5e
Watch a Cobotics Corner demonstration that helped a shop increase productivity by 34% using a Universal Robots UR5e arm and a Robotiq Dual Hand-E gripper on a 2012 Haas ST20SS, according to Fusion OEM.
Additive manufacturing aerospace nozzle
View video presentations by ModuleWorks and Open Mind Technologies USA to learn more about hybrid manufacturing. The videos are presented here as a video supplement to the hybrid machining article in the October 2020 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.
Robotic CNC Machine Tending with Haas Mini Mill & UR5e
Fusion OEM recently came to the aid of a family-owned contract machine shop that was ready to automate. After visiting the shop, Fusion worked with the owner to automate two mills in a six-machine cell. Watch a brief demonstration of a robotic CNC machine tending operation on a Haas Mini Mill with a Universal Robots UR5e and Schunk dual pneumatic parallel gripper.
Surface Finish on A36 Steel
ProvenCut recipe 586 struck a wonderful balance, machining a piece free of chatter and yielding an extraordinary finish using a YG-1 V7 PlusA six-flute endmill held in a Lyndex-Nikken SK16 collet holder. The 2D contour finishing operation was programmed with Autodesk Fusion 360 and run at 210 m/min. (690 sfm) at 0.015 mm feed per tooth (0.0006" feed per tooth) with a 0.203 mm (0.008") radial DOC and 63.5 mm axial DOC.
Production flexibility abounds with new multitasking series
The Integrex i-H series of multi-tasking machines from Mazak was designed to allow for additional automation technologies to be added onto the machine after purchase as a company's production needs grow and change.nn
3DxSUITE
Companies can use the new platform to construct a centralized system that allows them to easily select, combine and integrate modularized functions and usage. This ability will save companies handling 3D engineering data significant time and costs in their model-based and digitalization efforts, and improve supply-chain integration and productivity.n
ImageIR 8300 hs
The ImageIR® 8300 hs extends this series with a new generation of high-speed infrared cameras. Combining the image format of (640 × 512) IR pixels with the exceptionally high frame rate of 1,004 Hz sets new standards. It allows thermographic images of excellent quality, even of extremely fast moving objects or highly dynamic thermal processes. Thus, exactly the moment that matters is captured with absolute precision, displayed with high resolution and precisely measured thermally.n
Senturion
Senturion is a powerful dust collector that has been optimized for the volume and type of dust produced by fiber laser cutting. Fiber lasers produce large volumes of very fine particulates moving at high velocities within the laser enclosure. This dust can become deeply embedded in the filter media, making it difficult to pulse off and causing premature filter loading.
Programming autonomous bin picking demo
Universal Robots USA Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has introduced a pick-and-place kit to automate machine loading without the major integration and programming efforts usually required to install and set up an automated bin-picking system.
