What are the links between a rough deburring sand blasting operation and the delicate operation of bead blasting precision microtechnology parts? In fact both are often seen in the same way since they use the same method. Surfacing presents a bead blasting machine tailored to technology parts and allows users to go much further than with the conventional sand and bead blasting operations. To learn more we met Mr. Gérald Nicolet, R & D Manager at Surfacing. One of the common problems in (…)

Colombo Filippetti Torino will unveil the CTNE 50 new shuttle tool changer system at EMO this year. This new tool changer has been technically improved to optimize the tool changing time by simplifying its management. The main characteristic is that no hydraulic device is used, thus bringing different asset as silence in use, cleanliness and reliability. It is composed of an exchanging unit assembled on a shuttle moved by a servomotor which slides, through rollers, on a hardened prismatic (…)

Hosted for the first time in Spain, the Medevice Design Manufacturing Exhibition and Biomaterials Europe Conference will take place on 5-6 October 2011 at the Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona. These two new events bring a much needed platform to connect medical device industry suppliers with Europeanwide medical device manufacturers. “This event is aimed at helping Spanish medical device manufacturers meet other European colleagues in the industry, to create partnerships and develop their (…)

The optimization of energy efficiency and resources’ exploitation play an increasing role in the design of machine tools and industrial production. Indeed, energy becomes more expensive and resources are becoming scarce. For more than two years, the German Association of machine tools manufacturers VDW (Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken) looks very intensively on the issue and will communicate largely at EMO. Interest in the topic was triggered first by the activities of the EU in (…)

Parts manufacturers face challenges that seem contradictory; on one hand they must produce shorter and shorter batches. On the other they must manufacture as automatically as possible and at minimum costs. A manufacturer of milling and turning centers pulls out in this complex equation. Meeting at Willemin-Macodel SA with MM Patrick Haegeli, director and Denis Jeannerat, technical director. "We do not only sell products with advanced features, but the whole of a process and our ability to (…)

At the EMO in hall 27, stand D68, Chiron will exhibit eight “new generation” machining centers – including five world premieres – to demonstrate all aspects of efficient, fast and precise machining for numerous applications in different industries and with a wide range of materials. The live machining demonstrations will focus on productivity increases by the use of multi-spindle technology, simultaneous turning and milling, new automation solutions and energy efficient machining centers. (…)

If the EMO is usually the place where companies launch their products, it is quite rare to discover a product that changes the way we see machining. Most of the time there are new machines a little bit more so and so or with enhanced so and so to be discovered. At the next EMO, Tornos will launch a product that will probably be seen as a real new way to machine. The company has launched a microwebsite dedicated to this new machine: [www.multiswiss.info->http://www.multiswiss.info. There is (…)

Dixi Polytool SA offers various options for internal micro threads. Dixi has in stock complete ranges of whirling tools, micro taps, micro thread formers as well as thread mills. With the launch of the new series of Dixi 1740 drilling thread whirlers, Dixi steps ahead with a new option for its customers’ needs. Daily, Dixi’s customers face smaller and smaller series coupled with shorter delivery terms. Therefore the company’s R&D department has focused on defining a tool able to assure (…)

The 41st Midest, the industrial subcontracting show, will take place from 15th to 18th November at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre and it will open against a background that mixes concerns (consequences of the ending of the scrappage scheme, rising raw materials prices, Japanese disaster) with real reasons for hope (economic recovery, support measures in a range of countries, development of new channels…). . To meet the current challenges, Midest is launching new initiatives (…)

We all do marketing, sometimes even without knowing it… and sometimes we would like to have a backbone structure to help us. The CIP in Tramelan (Switzerland) organizes a 4-day training to help partakers clarify their vision and build actual tools. This training will take place in French. The training is based on projects for partakers and will help them answer a lot of questions like: What are our assets? What is the DNA of my company? What do I want to communicate? How to prepare the (…)