Switzerland is the country with the highest density of companies working for the medical industry in the world. This translates as approximately 1,400 companies, generating over 48,000 jobs. More than 60% of these companies work on the production side. All of these manufacturers are found within an 150-kilometre radius of one of Switzerland’s - and Europe’s - historical centres of microtechnology. It is the natural home of Medisiams, a trade fair which brings together the expertise of the (…)

Moog Industrial Group, a division of Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B) and a leader in providing high-performance flight simulation and leading-edge testing systems to the automotive and aerospace markets, has provided the high-dynamic motion control system portion of the new Daimler AG driving simulator. The system is installed at Daimler’s new driving simulator center, which is part of the Mercedes-Benz Technology Center, in Sindelfingen, Germany. The Moog electrical motion base is a (…)

A seminal piece of legislation mandating minimum electric motor efficiency levels is scheduled to come into force across the EU in June 2011. It has enormous implications for machinery OEMs, with potentially serious consequences to sales and market share if attention is not paid immediately, says Baldor. The situation is made even more problematic by the USA’s EISA minimum efficiency regulations, which came into force in December 2010. From feedback at exhibitions and from calls and visits (…)

LPKF Laser & Electronics AG expects a growth in business figures for 2010 with turnover most likely up 56 percent. The success of the German-based laser specialist is attributed to its booming export business. LPKF CEO Dr. Ingo Bretthauer (left), Matthias Hu (center, managing director LPKF Tianjin) and Gene Feng, head of the new office in Shanghai. LPKF Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors Dr. Ingo Bretthauer opened two new sales and service branches in Asia in January. LPKF (…)

This phrase is often heard on the market as soon as it comes to buying special millers and summarizes well the position of the Swiss company. Renowned for its ability to develop special tools "no one else can do", Gloor has based its organization on the willingness to find solutions for its customers. Gloor is for instance a pioneer in thread whirling with more than 20 years of experience in the field. Listening to the market If Gloor is specialized in the realization of custom shaped (…)

The program of the MAM continues and again yesterday afternoon high value conferences took places. Prof. J. Rhett Mayor, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) presented the results of their studies on micromachining (just one conference that I decided to highlight). Obviously we all know the cutting edge of inserts or tools, but when we come to machine very small parts, it appears that the cutting edge isn’t that sharp… in fact we cut with a round cutting edge. What (…)

The first morning is even not finished and I can tell you, absents miss a lot of interesting clues in Microproduction. The spectrum is quite wide in equipment for microproduction and this morning there were mainly to conferences targeted to Eurotec. In this post, the first one. About 60 people are reunited in the beautiful venue of Villars-sur-Olon under the MAM flag. Again Micronarc and Mancef have organized a high level event for people interested in today’s and tomorrow’s challenging in (…)

Delcam has played a major part in a GKN Aerospace project to supply new electro-thermal ice protection technology for the wings of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The project represents the first application of this technology to a major wing environment. The Huron KX 200 at Delcam’s Birmingham headquarters was used to manufacture demonstration parts and the initial production samples. The Delcam contribution involved both Delcam Professional Services, which developed a novel (…)

In the bar turning industry, countersinking and turning operations with a single tool are routine. Unfortunately, depending on the material, traditional X-geometry inserts (Parisian cut) are not always ideal for dealing with long and bulky swarf fragments. Applitec now presents a new family of inserts combining the machinability benefits of X inserts with the ‘chip rolling’ capability of ISO inserts: The Top-Line range of ZX geometry inserts. Applitec is a company that listens to its (…)

H20, European market leader for energy saving vacuum distillation systems presents a new treatment for oil containing process water and spent emulsions. In addition to the numerous industrial property rights already in possession of H2O the patent for the innovative ClearCat®-technology has been granted recently by the European patent office. It allows processing of oil containing process waste water and spent emulsions in one process step. Quality of processed water allows disposal into (…)