Walter Dünner presents a kit to boost the capabilities of the Tornos Deco 20 machines regarding clamping on the counter-spindle. The new “large opening set” is delivered complete, with sealing discs and springs. Basically the maximum stroke way of the counter collet sleeve is of 0.8 mm, which is limiting the opening of the counter collet. With the new pusher developed by Walter Dünner and tested with the company’s customers, the way of the sleeve is increased up to 2.8 mm! This allows a (…)

The new DT-1 from Haas Automation, Inc., is a compact, high-speed drill and tap machine with full milling capabilities. The machine features a generous 508 x 406 x394 mm work cube and 660 x 381 mm T-slot table, while maintaining a very small footprint. A powerful BT-30 taper spindle spins to 12,000 rpm, and allows tapping at speeds to 5000 rpm. The spindle is coupled directly to the motor for smooth, quiet operation and extreme thermal stability. A 11.2 kW vector drive system provides 62 (…)

From December 6 to 9, 2011, the machine tool builder exhibits the machines presented in 2011 at EMO in its premises in Moutier. It is the occasion to discover these solutions in a friendly environment. The specialists from the company are eager to welcome visitors. In order to present a global solution to customers, Sandvik Coromant tools and Tesa measuring devices are also on display in Moutier. Tornos New machines and solutions The following solutions can be discovered: MultiSwiss (…)

Kuka Roboter and Siemens Drive Technologies unveil an application for the perfect integration of the robot into the Sinumerik interface for operator control and programming – without major effort, and ergonomic from the point of view of the integrator and machine tool operator. The end-customer-friendly automation of machine tools requires the integration of industrial robots in machining cells in such a way that modifications that have to be made by the operator, e.g. retrofits, are (…)

Amada, the publicly listed Japanese machine-tool and tool manufacturer offers a broad range of machines in several field of activities. A few examples?, You can find high-speed fiber laser, press brake, press featuring servo-electric drive technology, turning machines, integrated automation solutions, and grinding machines (using new grinding technologies) in its portfolio. To learn more about these we met with Ben Scherr, CEO of the European branch of the company. In the last EMO the (…)

Today in almost all areas, men-machine interfaces use electronic devices and require always more advanced skills in "electronic development and industrialization". In the industry, a breakdown often means "loss of production", therefore manufacturers of machines and appliances must offer electronic solutions of high quality. We met with Mr. Patrick Roy, head of sales and Marketing at Cloos Electronic, specialist of custom electronic solutions supplier. "The trend today is very often that (…)

PTG Customer Care, the cross company division within the Precision Technologies Group of Milnrow, Lancashire that deals with all post delivery requirements for Holroyd, Crawford Swift and Binns and Berry machines, has developed a solution for customers finding it difficult to source replacement parts for machines with CNC controls over 10 years old by offering a state of the art new CNC control upgrade. By definition, the unthinkable is something none of us wants to think about. And, in (…)

It is neither a single spindle lathe nor a classical multispindle one and also not a classical transfer machine. It benefits from a very small footprint and can be fed by coil or with a classical bar feeder and reaches high productivity outputs. It’s a wolf rotary table machine. Meeting at EMO with Ms Ilona Steinecke Sales manager of the German company. The TSM 280 machine is based on a rotary indexing principle and has been designed specifically for the production of parts for medium to (…)

Imoberdorf AG established that there was a need for a small machine on the market in order to concentrate the high productivity demanded by many companies into the smallest possible area. This has led its engineers to successfully harness state-of-the-art control and drive technologies from the wide and varied world of machine tools to maximise the productivity per unit area of a rotary transfer machine. We had the luck to meet Toni Imoberdorf, CEO at EMO to discover that new machine. (…)

At the recent EMO in Hannover the Swiss company presented quite a lot of novelties regarding machines and solutions, today the producer unveils a new website, evolution or revolution? We called Brice Renggli Head of Marketing to chat about it. At first glance the new website seems full of information but we can find our way quite efficiently. Those willing to find quick information about a machine will be satisfied as well as those looking for investor relations information. But there is (…)