Videos

Jack Burley, president and COO of BIG DAISHOWA Inc., took time during Eastec 2023 to highlight a number of the company's products, including tooling technology focused on trochoidal milling, high-precision fine boring heads with digital readouts, and the BIG-PLUS spindle system that is designed so the shank contacts the spindle taper and the spindle face at the same time.n

George Brown, Northeast and Southeast regional manager for Vollmer of America Corp., took a few minutes during Eastec 2023 to discuss some of the features of the company's new VGrind argon machine.n

Tom Bruders, regional sales manager for UNISIG deep hole drilling systems, discussed the company's UNE6 2i gundrilling machines that feature automation options and two independent spindles, and are aimed at the medical manufacturing market. n

During Eastec 2023, Kevin Swint, territory sales representative for VEKTEK, highlighted the company's new Auto-Coupler device for automating the hydraulic connection from the power supply to a workholding fixture, as well as VEKTEK's Advanced Automation Workholding Pump.n

A hands-on educational program designed to spread awareness about careers in manufacturing, Camp CHAMP debuted as part of the Leyden Student Summit held last month at East Leyden High School in Franklin Park, Illinois. Of the 170 middle school students who signed up for the two-day summer career-oriented educational event, 30 chose to experience first-hand what it takes to make pens out of wood using tabletop machinery. The students watched and assisted with various operations as they moved from one station to the next. There was a tabletop lathe, a rotary grinder, a tabletop milling machine, an assembly station, a laser marking machine and, finally, an inspection system.

RF 100 Diver has established itself with customers that require high flexibility. The Ratio endmill covers five operations with one tool. It can perform drilling, ramping, slotting, roughing and finishing operations. As well as a program extension, Guhring is now introducing an innovation in the coolant delivery sector: internal cooling optimized for both milling and drilling.

Iscar continues to provide high performance drilling solutions with the IHP drill head geometry and edge prep are optimized for drilling Non-Alloy / Carbon Steel. The design's strengthened cutting edge not only extends tool life but works well in non-rigid applications where other geometries may not be as suitable. The drill heads are available in IC948 TiAlCrN PVD grade coating in the following size range 394" to .866" in .004" increments. The IC948 coating applied on a hard cemented carbide sub-micron substrate offers high oxidation and chipping resistance due to the special multi-layer structure of the coating.

View a video presentation about Mitutoyo America Corp.'s RTX Roundtracer Extreme, which the company designed to provide fast, accurate measurement of workpiece roundess, contour and surface roughness. The video is presented here as a supplement to the Machine Technology column, "Multifunctional Measurer," which appears in the July 2023 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Based on the "Deburring and Chamfering" feature article published in the June issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, this webinar uses the article by James Engineering as a launching point to address a few audience questions about deburring as well as the ROI calculations to consider if you plan to move from a manual deburring process to an automated system capable of handling high volume.n

Allied Machine & Engineering's Kevin Vanderbeck, field sales engineer for the New England territory, discussed the company's T-A Pro drilling line for stainless steel geometries along with a variety of other products on display during Eastec 2023.n

Horn USA's Adrian Noonan, technical specialist, tours kiosk after kiosk at the Horn booth during Eastec 2023, highlighting the newest innovations for broaching, narrow width slot milling cutters, form boring and internal grooving. n

Rush Machinery Sales Manager Doug Lewis highlighted the features of the CH-CM0206 Auto-Cut machine at the Rush booth during Eastec 2023, and noted that the machine is ideal for tool manufacturers and carbide rod processors. n