Is this just a vision or already real? Live event series „inside AM“ provides interesting behind the scenes insights! Additive Manufacturing replaces numerous traditional manufacturing processes, facilitates the development of new products and business models and helps establish new value-added and supply chains. Are these claims about the possibilities of Additive Manufacturing real, and in which industries have they already been successfully implemented? What is really feasible, to what (…)

Mclennan, the leading motion control component supplier and systems integrator has signed a distribution agreement with the USA-based electric linear actuator, roller screw and grooved roller bearing designer and manufacturer Creative Motion Control (CMC). Formed in 2002, and with a growing reputation for its innovative approach to motion engineering, CMC´s products are characterised by their exceptional durability, extremely high-force capacity, superior power density and long (…)

SLM Solutions has launched a new competition to inspire artists, designers and engineers to design with metal 3D printing in mind. Its “Print the Future” competition – launched online last Friday – has asked people to submit and upload their 3D designs, one of which will be built by one of the company’s future-forward systems. SLM Solutions sees this as an opportunity to connect a community of designers to compete at expert level of design for AM. Complex geometry? Submit it! Hard to resolve (…)

Wickert Maschinenbau has developed an extremely compact, setup-free multifunctional gripper for the handling of multilayer-stacked or chaotically deposited components with layer separation. The system is available with two different gripper types: A group of two to six fingers picks up workpieces and lifts them out of the transport container. As soon as one layer has been completely emptied, the separation sheet is removed by three close-fitting, extendable vacuum suction elements on the (…)

The International Metrology Congress will be held 7-9 September in Lyon (France), in partnership with Measurement World exhibition and on the same dates and location as Global Industrie exhibition. The Congress is dedicated to the best industrial practices, and advances in R&D applied to measurements, analysis and testing processes: this unique meeting is the meeting between science, industry and institutional organisations of metrology. «This year marks the 20th event in this (…)

Rising quality requirements, stricter traceability demands, more customer-specific projects and shorter delivery times - the challenges faced by manufacturing companies are becoming ever-more diverse. Automation, digitalization and networking are essential prerequisites to overcome these. Ecoclean supports the digital transformation of parts cleaning processes with its innovative cloud solution Ecoclean Connect. A company’s competitiveness and future viability depend largely on how (…)

Texte français [Deutscher Text->https://eurotec-online.com/vom-unte... Marcel Aubert was founded in 1946 to carry out precision mechanical work and manufacture parts. Now in the hands of the third generation, it is present throughout the world thanks to a diversification in its production decided in the fifties. There are many milestones in the life of a company, particularly when it spans three quarters of a century. Here we look back at some of the key dates in the company’s history, (…)

On April 19, the US subsidiary Arburg Inc. signed a contract with the Würth Additive Group. This is one of the world’s leading companies in the field of "supply chain efficiency" and is now a partner for the distribution of the Freeformer in the USA and Canada. This national agreement extends the reach of the Arburg Plastic Freeforming (APF) in this region into the general manufacturing market as well as to the oil & gas, heavy equipment and transportation industries. "Thanks to its (…)

New computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) technology has been introduced by ESPRIT CAM, part of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division that provides manufacturers with the control and flexibility needed to use multi-spindle and multi-channel computer-numerical-control (CNC) machinery for the machining of long parts. More accurate simulation of spindle transfers and bar pulls enables manufacturers to exploit multi-tasking machinery with high productivity program creation of error-free (…)

Texte français In May 2021, the European regulation on medical devices comes into force. Faced with the new challenges of this regulation, NGL wishes to contribute to the evolution of safer medical device manufacturing As a detergents provider, NGL is at the heart of risk management and endorses its customers’ concerns: Are the detergents used in compliance with the regulations? Will they remain so? Is my supplier able to provide me with the necessary data for my risk analysis? Is the (…)