Safety, Standards & Compliance

Products • September 23, 2019

Venturi and Vortex Wet Scrubbers

Metalworking processes like machining, sawing, grinding, buffing, polishing, fettling, brushing, drilling, cutting and abrasive blasting can create fine metal particles that become airborne and present an explosion hazard, if these metals are combustible. To help reduce this risk, Camfil APC offers Venturi and Vortex wet scrubbers.

Articles • September 10, 2019 • Christopher Tate

Selecting the appropriate drill design

Twist, indexable, replaceable-tip and spade drills can performed most machine work in today's shops.

Articles • July 11, 2019 • William Leventon

Spindle sensor enhances safety

B-Safe from Balance Systems detects collisions during machining, preventing damage to parts and machine.

Articles • June 4, 2019 • Del Williams

High-performance tool coatings provide vital protection

Specialty coatings extend tool life when cutting nonferrous materials.

Products • May 31, 2019

Personnel Cleaning Station NED and the Machine Vac NED Vacuums

Guardair Corp. has developed two innovative vacuums for safely cleaning off workers and their workspaces in environments with combustible materials. Both the popular Personnel Cleaning Station and Machine Vac are now available in non-electrical discharge (NED) versions.

News • May 6, 2019

NIMS and Festo Didactic to develop Industry 4.0 skills standards

The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), in partnership with Festo Didactic, will establish industry-recognized skills standards and ultimately credentials for jobs related to Industry 4.0. In light of the significant trend in digitalization of manufacturing through technology advancements such as Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), training in these skills is vitally needed now. With NIMS' emphasis on manufacturing skills training, credentialing and standards, plus Festo's complete Industry 4.0 learning Factories, courseware and eLearning integration, the two organizations are poised to provide the training programs for Industry 4.0.

Articles • May 2, 2019 • William Leventon

Laser used for Exact cutting

Coherent Inc. rolls out the ExactCut laser micromachining system, first in a line of machines aimed at meeting exacting material processing standards.

Products • April 9, 2019

Hazardous Location Cabinet Cooler Systems

EXAIR's new Hazardous Location Cabinet Cooler Systems have achieved the UL classified designation for Div1 environments. They have been tested by UL and passed their stringent requirements for use upon classified purged and pressurized electrical enclosures within Class I Div 1, Groups A, B, C and D; Class II Div 1, Groups E, F and G – and Class III environments.

Articles • April 1, 2019

Cool cost cutting

New nesting software and a post-processor reduce programming time and material consumption at I-Cherng Refrigerationn

Products • March 12, 2019

Model 300 Portable Floor Sentry Fume Extractor

The Model 300 Portable Floor Sentry fume extractor offers a safety engineering control device used for the capture and filtration of airborne contaminants.

Products • February 25, 2019

TriTek Palm Glove Coating

Magid introduces the TriTek Palm – a flexible, dual-layer glove coating that provides oil grip without saturation.

Products • February 25, 2019

D-ROC GPD482 AeroDex Work Glove

Magid introduces AeroDex – a first-to-market, lightweight shell technology. AeroDex delivers extremely lightweight 360° A4 cut resistance that is over 50 percent lighter than a comparable Cut A4.