In industry, the share of turnover assigned to marketing and communication is very low compared to other sectors; nevertheless, companies make sure they have the means to exhibit and sell their products. But what about after-sales? While it’s accepted that the second machine is customarily sold by the after-sales service, there’s no denying that after-sales technical communication tools are often the poor relation of communication. And yet there are professional solutions. Interview with Mr. (…)

For many small and medium-sized business, production is still monitored "by hand" using Excel or Access and a lot of ingenuity. With growth, these kinds of businesses want to be able to use software to manage, schedule and monitor orders and production; simple software which can be adapted to their needs. Clipper from Clip Industrie provides an ERP-CAPM solution for companies of between 5 and 150 staff. To find out how this solution has been implemented at Almac, we met with Roland (…)

If you’re going to the PRODEX exhibition that starts next Tuesday, Springmann hopes that your visit will lead you also to its booth located on the ground floor of the main Hall 1.0, booth A 09. More than 20 machines, with several Swiss premières will show you nowaday’s machining and measuring possibilities. The list of exposed products downloadable below (in French), informs you about the various possibilities for which the company offers solutions. Springmann takes advantage of this (…)

SF-Filter with headquarters located in Bachenbülach Switzerland and already established subsidiaries in VS- Schwenningen, Germany, France, Poland and Austria, broadens its market share through the purchase of Filtor Filtersysteme GmbH based in Münchendorf near to Vienna. The company has been renamed SF-Filtor GmbH and will concentrate its efforts on the development of the Austrian market whose potential is significant. In the future it will be able to serve customers more efficiently. SF, (…)

The speaker’s line up for the IMPLANTS 2011 conference will include around 35 most representative personalities from the international implants industry. Trying to capture the best shot of the international and complex dimension of orthopaedic implants in Europe, the conference will also feature important names from America and the emerging Asian markets. The programme will address the following topics: Market Strategy and Contracting issues International Markets Regulatory Issues Coating (…)

Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM® software for programming CNC machine tools and a Cimatron company, today congratulated GibbsCAM user Center Rock on its significant role in the October 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners: Center Rock’s Low Profile (LP) Hole Opener drills – which were produced with machine tools programmed with GibbsCAM – shortened the rescue effort by two and a half months. Center Rock Inc. has been using GibbsCAM for almost six years. The air drill maker (…)

In the medical devices industry, platinum is frequently used as the working material, particularly for producing cardiac implants. As platinum is very expensive material – 1kg costs a little over €35,000 Euros – alternatives that are more cost-effective are being sought. Tantalum has been identified as a suitable replacement for platinum in terms of functionality, its also convincing from a cost perspective (approximately €500 Euros per kilo). Tantalum is used in the medical device (…)

This Midest show in Paris made me discover a company that organized itself to be the “Amazon” of subcontracting: proto labs. I.e. everything has been set up to allow customers to order quickly and efficiently on-line and everything has also been organized to make production follow at high pace. Offered services are CNC prototype machining (from 1 to 10 parts) and prototype injection molding (10 to 10’000 parts). Proto labs factory in the UK: A huge production capacity! One production (…)

Yesterday at the 40th anniversary celebration of Midest, a round table and debate took place regarding “subcontracting at the dawn of 2020”. The attendees coming from industry and political world were amazingly well on the same wavelength, subcontracting in France is at the start of bright days. In France, 97% of companies are less than50 people big. The strength of these SME’s can be found in their passion and innovation (amongst other things). According to the debate, there are a few (…)

ESPRIT is a high-performance, full-spectrum, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system for a full range of machine tool applications. Recently the company started to organize very successful seminars on the web… here is a new one that will take place tomorrow! How long does it take you to program a part? 2 hours? 4 hours? Do some programs take even longer than that? What if you could create reliable CNC programs in under 15 minutes? Do not miss the webinar that will demonstrate different (…)