Netzsch, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of pumping technologies and their systems, has purchased a ‘special version’ Zenith 400 helical profile grinding machine from Precision Technologies Group (PTG) company, Holroyd Precision. The Zenith 400 will be installed and commissioned at Netzsch’s manufacturing facility in Brazil during early 2018. Netzsch will use the Zenith 400 to produce a range of pump screws. These will then be used in a number of the company’s innovative pumping (…)

The AMB project team is starting the trade fair year 2018 with a new line-up: After the departure of Sabrina Sledzinski, Florian Schmitz is moving to AMB with immediate effect. As Project Manager, Schmitz will in future be responsible for the area of machine tools for the international exhibition for metal working. He completes the trade fair team with Romy Arnold, Project Manager for precision tools and peripherals, and Nadine Trester, Project Coordinator for AMB. The AMB Project (…)

3D printing equipment and machinery will be one of the main attractions at ADDIT3D, International Exhibition of Additive and 3D Manufacturing, which will hold its third edition from 28th May to 1st June 2018 in parallel with BIEMH. Its coinciding in time and space with the largest platform devoted to Industry 4.0 in Spain will give the event a wider range of equipment and finished components. The event also takes place within a favourable context, with significant increases in the sale of (…)

Cutting tool and tooling system specialist Sandvik Coromant has extended the functionality of its InvoMilling software. The latest version of this user-friendly CAD/CAM solution for fast and simple NC programming offers more possibilities when manufacturing gears on universal five-axis machining centers. As of late 2017, the software will also enable customers to produce straight bevel gears and herringbone gears. InvoMilling exploits machine tool kinetics for the effective and flexible (…)

Laser blanking lines don’t require dies, but can’t match the productivity of conventional blanking lines: This commonly held assumption has now been proven false based on real production data collected by a Schuler customer. Over the course of the first year in production, Schuler’s newly developed systems outperformed the contractually agreed upon yields by 20 to 100 percent, depending on the specific part produced. This means that, in some cases, output was double the contracted amount. (…)

During the third SIGMASOFT International User Meeting at the beginning of November SIGMA Engineering presented the SIGMA Award for the first time. Rewarded projects show a consistent use of SIGMASOFT Virtual Molding to reduce costs or necessary resources significantly. The first winners are GÜNTHER Heisskanaltechnik and Speedturtle. For years SIGMA Engineering GmbH, Aachen, Germany, finds projects at their customers, in which the full potential of modern simulation approaches has been (…)

Eisele has developed a ball bearing rotary connector. This new addition to series 14 of the Eisele BASICLINE can rotate freely around its own axis. The new rotary connector offers a solution for conveying compressed air from a rigid component to a rotating component. Eisele developed a new ball bearing rotary connector that conveys compressed air of -0,9 to 16 bar from a rigid component to a rotating component The new rotary connector, which is designed for an operating pressure range of (…)

During its meeting held on 22 November 2017 in Brussels, the CECIMO General Assembly elected Dr Roland Feichtl as President of CECIMO for a period of two years. Succeeding in this role Mr Luigi Galdabini, Managing Director at CESARE GALDABINI S.p.A., Dr Feichtl has been entrusted with the responsibility of leading the European Association that represents more than a third of the world machine tool (MT) production. During his Presidency, Mr Galdabini strongly addressed the issue of the (…)

Brussels, 21 November 2017 –CECIMO had the pleasure to host Ms Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Commissioner for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, during its meetings in Brussels. In her address to industrialists and stakeholders on the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning, she encouraged companies and firms to get involved in the European Industrial Strategy. (from left to right: Dr Roland Feichtl, Ms Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Mr Luigi Galdabini, Mr Filip (…)

As well as taking “a major step forward” with technology geared towards helping sheet metal manufacturers implement Industry 4.0 smart factories in its latest version, Radan will now be issuing two new releases a year. “We’re aiming to get the very latest developments to customers as quickly as possible,” says Radan’s Product Manager Olaf Körner. “Starting with Radan 2018 R1, customers needn’t ever be working with software that is more than six months old.” The new release includes a (…)