Germany’s leading aircraft engine manufacturer—a global player in the design, development, manufacture, marketing and support of commercial and military aircraft engines in all thrust and power categories—has inaugurated a new center of excellence for blade integrated disks (blisks). MTU’s center of excellence for blisks opened mid April, following a 20-month construction and installation phase. Blisks, which are high-tech components in which the disk and blades form a single part, are (…)

For almost twenty years, Boise, Idaho company, Performance Design has designed and manufactured paper punching machines used by Staples, Kinkos and in-house printing departments of large corporations. Today, they’ve got a 6’500 sqm facility with 25 employees where they manufacture and sell over 20 different product lines. Until late 2012, though, they were outsourcing a key component in their equipment…the round, oval, square and rectangular metal pins used to punch the paper. The pins are (…)

At EPHJ I’ve just discovered new Emissa machines: the Magic 50 and Horolotoplan. These machines complement the product range offered by Emissa in the watch industry. Magic 50 This new machine has been developed to offer watchmakers a less expensive alternative to 90° drill in the horn of watch cases. M. Boschi says: "We already offers the Magic drill, but this machine is mainly intended to produce large series, with the new Magic 50, we offer a "table" machine for small series”. (…)

Making its world debut at IMTS 2012, followed by DMP 2012 in China, the Swiss ST 26 was developed as a simple machine covering a wide range of requirements for the Asian and American markets. Building on its success in these markets, the company has decided to produce a CE version for Europe. Equipped with 7 axes, the newcomer will be positioned as a direct competitor to machines equipped with 5 or 6 axes, and available in the same price range. It completes Tornos’s mid-range offering, (…)

Newemag recently announced its move to Eschenbach in the canton of Lucerne. When? How? Why? In recent years, the infrastructure and the business processes of Newemag have lived some changes; demands being always higher. This means that space on the current site of Rotkreuz has become too small, both in the exhibition and in the offices halls. More efficient… At Eschenbach, a modern working environment awaits the motivated team of Newemag. The building has been designed in an optimal way. (…)

In F1’s teams there are generally two groups of engineers working in parallel to refine the current season engines and also to already work on those for the next season. Both require very reactive sub-contractors capable of providing complex parts in exotic materials under very tight deadlines. Del West Europe located in Roche (Switzerland), at the gates of the Valais, works with all the motors providers and relies on the Miyano BNA-42DHY lathe for the realization of very demanding and (…)

Since its introduction in 2005, the range of Bumotec S191 machines has lived several developments and many innovations have emerged to deal with the very specific demands of its customers. We have reviewed the situation before EPHJ with Guy Ballif its commercial Director. What are the latest news? With more than 400 machines sold in the fields of watchmaking, medical and mechanical sub-contracting, the S191 machine is equipped with linear guides and thermal stabilisation that contribute to (…)

Tornos is continuing to expand its activities in the mid-range machines segment. In association with a machine-tool manufacturer established in China, the Group is investing there in the development of a range of automatic lathes, as well as in setting up its own production capacity. Tornos holds a majority stake in this future joint undertaking. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="492"] Tornos has already a sales subsidiary in Shanghai that offers a complete service, from sales to (…)

Last week about 2’500 visitors from over 1’000 companies were welcomed at the Hermle AG traditional in-house exhibition. During four days customers and prospects were able to discover 30 fully equipped machines and Hermle’s training center. The high proportion of international visitors from over 50 countries who are not afraid of traveling from the United States, Brazil, Korea, China, Russia, Israel and some other Asian countries is encouraging. Guests from almost all EU countries were well (…)

If the capture of movements (motion capture) was developed in the 1980s for the army and then for physiological and medical analyses, it is Hollywood and video games that have developed this technique for recording human movements through sensors to then recreate them in a virtual manner (as in Avatar for example). At EPHJ Crevoisier, the manufacturer of grinding and finishing centres, will present an articulated polishing robot that operates using the same technique. Crevoisier uses the (…)