NUM announces two new brushless servomotor ranges for CNC machinery applications which provide major savings by eliminating the need for a separate encoder cable. Machine builders can now use a single drive-to-motor cable for each motion axis, thereby reducing cabling, speeding installation/commissioning, and improving system performance. NUM estimates that for a typical high-end CNC machine installation involving 20 meters cable lengths, the new technology can reduce total motor cabling (...)
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Unique CNC platform provides machine tool manufacturers with almost unlimited configuration flexibility
Today, Num launches a new generation of its CNC platform, providing machine tool manufacturers with an exceptionally flexible and scalable solution for safe control of machine tools. Flexium+ software includes powerful tools for machine setup, optimisation and diagnostics, such as ballbar testing of interpolated axes. Known as Flexium+, the modular safety-equipped platform enables OEMs to standardise on a single cost- and performance-optimised CNC architecture for a vast spectrum of (...)
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New standards in digital surface profile measurement
Fast, tough and accurate the new Elcometer 224 is available in a range of models with either integral or separate probe options to suit the customers’ application. Each probe is supplied with a hard wearing tungsten carbide, user replaceable, tip which can be used for up to 20,000 readings. Packed full of a wide range of new features, the new Elcometer 224 digital surface profile gauges are even more powerful, reliable and easier to use than ever before. Impact, dust and waterproof (...)
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Aubert inside…
All computer users are familiar with the famous "Intel inside" label found on many computers. For more than 50 years, Marcel Aubert the company located in Bienne installs embedded optical measurements systems on many types of machine tools, to the point that if an "Aubert inside" distinction would exist, we would see it in the workshops all around the world. Meeting with Mr. Fleury, technical manager and Terzini, responsible for marketing and commercial. The company provides different (...)
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Maximizes efficiency for Vickers and Knoop hardness testing
The Wilson Hardness Tukon™ 3100 is a newly developed single indenter Vickers-Knoop hardness tester from ITW Test & Measurement, Esslingen/Germany, specifically designed to maximize efficiency, accuracy and usability. The new Wilson Hardness Tukon™ 3100 Micro-Hardness Tester has been specifically designed to maximize efficiency and optimize usability for Vickers and Knoop hardness testing. The device advanced microscope quality optics, patent pending safety collision control, high speed (...)
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Aiming at error-free production
Let’s carry on our discoveries of all the interesting products and solutions presented at Hannover Messe last Week. NanoFocus AG exhibited 3D surface metrology systems for optimal quality assurance. Optimal quality assurance in production by NanoFocus. NanoFocus AG, developer and manufacturer of optical 3D surface measurement systems and software for the characterization of technical surfaces, presented its optical 3D measurement systems. The high-resolution surface analysis tools are (...)
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Small IR camera, great resolution
At the Hannover Messe, Optris presented its thermal measuring solutions. The optris PI400 thermal imager captures high resolution infrared images at 80 Hz. The Optris PI400 nicely rounds off Optris GmbH’s family of online infrared cameras. The versions PI400 and PI450 have been introduced on the market to complement the firmly established PI160 and PI200. Technology company Optris GmbH is specialized in the development, production and sales of non-contact temperature measurement sensors (...)
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Fast and highly user friendly optical 3D measurement
With InfiniteFocusSL from Alicona, supplier of high resolution optical 3D measurement systems, a new and cost efficient measurement device for the 3D characterization of micro structured surfaces is available. Users measure surface roughness including surface finish with only one system. In addition, InfiniteFocusSL delivers brilliant color images with high contrast and high depth of focus. The low-cost system enhances the Alicona product range with another measurement system that is based (...)
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Quick geometry control of machine tools
Because of stricter requirements of precision, the manufacturers and users of machine tools need to be able to measure the linear axes quickly and in a reliable way. This is why Kunz precision AG presents a new unique system of measure to control all geometric deviations of a linear axis in a single operation at Control 2012. It sets new standards in terms of speed, reliability and ease of use. RAIL-check measurement system consists of a standard of straightness of high-precision, a (...)
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Shaking up the machine tools market - NUM celebrates record sales
The 10,000th model of NUM’s new-generation CNC kernel, Flexium, has been produced. This major milestone has been achieved within just three years from launch - marking a spectacular success for a mid-level CNC provider that serves mainly specialized machine tool builders. "Machinery OEMs tend to be very conservative in introducing new technology, and we anticipated that volume sales of our new CNC kernel would not kick-in until typically years four to five of its lifespan," says Peter von (...)