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Sandvik Coromant has released a free App designed to
provide engineers and machinists with a convenient resource
for calculating cutting data. Once downloaded and installed,
the App helps users optimize performance of their turning,
milling and drilling applications by calculating optimal
setting based on a job’s unique parameters.
“We’re always looking for exciting new ways to meet the
ever-changing needs of our customers,” says Lennart
Lindgren, global vice president marketing and sales. “We
developed this App to provide customers with a convenient
resource that can be accessed anywhere they take their
phone.”
The Machining Calculator App features a help button that
provides additional information on the calculation being
executed and the input needed to generate results. Sandvik
Coromant’s App also contains a process cost comparison that
determines how tool optimization can provide cost and time
savings. The App works with both metric and inch
measurements and is available for both iPhone and Android
phones.
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Sandvik
A 5’X5’ Mid Rail Gantry Waterjet System is ideal
for shops that cut smaller material or have limited
floor space available for machine tools.
Powered by a 60,000 psi or 90,000 psi water jet
intensifier pump (available in 30-200hp models), the
system features an exposed 72”X72” tank that easily
accommodates overhead loading. It is designed to cut
virtually any material up to 60”X60”. If equipped
with an optional second cutting head, it can cut two
parts up to 30”X60”.
The water jet system utilizes an industrial PC
controller and can be configured so that all three
axes are fully programmable (Z optional). It also
features direct-couple AC brushless digital
servomotors and single or double carriages. Critical
bearing components are protected with heavy metal
covers with brush seals. The system also is
available in 8’x5’, and 21’x5’, 8’X13’ and 21’X13’
and 5’x13’ work envelopes.
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Jet Edge
Introducing the new MD-F Series, 3-Axis 30W Fiber Laser
Marker, a high-power fiber laser marker from Keyence. It
features the world's smallest head, fan-less architecture
and a replaceable lens cover for use in any environment and
production site.
Despite fitting in the palm of the hand, the MD-F Series
includes Keyence's original 3-Axis technology, a 300mm x
300mm marking area and integrated power monitor! The
high-power 30W laser significantly improves tact time in
creating permanent and highly visible marks on a wide array
of applications previously not possible.
The long life, low maintenance, compact MD-F Series is
changing the history of laser marking in a wide range of
arenas including automotive, metal processing, and medical
industries.
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Keyence
Corporation
What’s happening when a work piece needs
deburring on the backside, which is hard-to-reach,
or where a turning over of the part is not possible?
A new cutting tool provides the solution. It’s a
milling cutter, which has been especially designed
for back chamfer milling of contours and bores in
small dimensions and has up to 50% more teeth. This
results in a better surface quality at high cutting
speeds. Most particular are also the dimensions
starting from diameter 0.4 mm (0,015”) and depths of
5 x d. It can be optimally used for micro machining.
Main applications are wherever within small
dimensions high quality and accuracy are required.
Conventional milling is recommended in two steps,
thus avoiding secondary burrs. The quality and the
straightness of the bore are of utmost importance,
particularly for small diameters. For short bores a
preliminary pilot hole is recommended. For hard
metals over 56 HRC a special execution is available
for best results.
Standard sizes from 0.36 to 5.7 mm (0,015” to
0,22”) for whole depths to 5 x d are available from
stock. The company also supplies special custom
tailored executions for the simultaneous deburring
and chamfering of the front and the back side of the
work piece.
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Mikron Tool
Robotic
shot peener changes tools.
Guyson Corporation has introduced a robotic shot
peening system that changes blast heads to
automatically perform multiple peening operations
without manual adjustments or other human
intervention. So equipped, a single robotic shot
peener can do a variety of metallurgical shot
peening processes that would otherwise require two
or more automated blast machines.
The tool-changing robot blast machine features a
slotted rack inside the shot peening chamber, where
the blasting tools are stored by the nozzle
manipulator when not in use. The assortment of tools
required is determined by the range of components to
be shot peened and the peening process
specifications, but may include straight nozzles of
different bore sizes, a lance with an angled nozzle
for ID peening, a rotary lance tool for small ID
peening or a blasting tool that delivers a different
size of peening shot.
One wall of the 86 x 78 x 78-inch peening cabinet
has a large opening fitted with a custom-tailored
protective suit for the articulated 6-axis robotic
arm. The laminated fabric seals the rubber-lined
blast chamber, which is fabricated from 1/2-inch
thick continuously welded steel plate, and isolates
the robot from the harsh shot peening environment
while accommodating the full range of motion of the
robotic nozzle manipulator.
The shot peening machine is equipped with a
3,000-pound capacity, 65-inch diameter turntable
that is driven by a servomotor and controlled as a
seventh axis of robotic motion. The rotary lance
peening nozzle also has a servomotor drive, and
rotation of the nozzle is programmed through the
robot controller as an eighth axis.
Critical to compliance with stringent aerospace
shot peening specifications, the robotic nozzle
manipulator is capable of repeatably following the
contours of complex-shaped components while
constantly and accurately maintaining the correct
stand-off distance, nozzle angle and surface speed
required for the precisely controlled cold-working
metal treatment process.
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Guyson Corporation
GS:TE-LM
200 with pallet system and robot load
Drake Manufacturing Services Co has delivered a
fully automated pallet changing and robotic loading
system for its line of CNC linear motor external
thread grinders. This particular machine, a
GS:TE-LM200, is for production grinding taps from M1
up to 200mm diameter x 330mm grind length (350mm
overall length).
The pallet changing system can hold up to 9
pallets of tool blanks for unattended machine
operation. Blanks are picked and placed from the
pallet via robot. The robot’s gripper removes a
finished tap from the chuck then swivels and places
in a new blank ready for probing and grinding.
Grippers can accommodate parts up to 32mm diameter
to 250mm in length. The pallets can be designed or
modified to orient the square so timing of the
square-to-flute relationship can be maintained.
The system can utilize many different pallet
styles so the customer can utilize its existing
pallets directly from its flute grinders. In
addition, the robot loader systems can be fed from
stationary pallets, trays, conveyors, and other part
handling configurations.
Robot
removes finished tap and places a new blank in
the chuck
If there is no flute-to-square timing on the
blanks, an integrated probe system, guided by
software, can rapidly probe each blank to find the
cutting edges – allowing thread relief to be timed
perfectly in the grind cycle. This allows sourcing
of tap blanks from multiple suppliers regardless of
slight flute-to-square timing variations that may be
present from one supplier to the next.
Drake programs customer parts and stores
processing parameters in the machine’s control so no
programming is required. The operator follows
on-screen prompts and enters the appropriate values.
Setup time between parts can be accomplished in as
little as 10 minutes.
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Drake Manufacturing
FARO Technologies, Inc., has introduced the new FARO
Laser Scanner Focus3D, a revolutionary, high-performance 3D
laser scanner for detailed measurement and documentation
with intuitive touch screen control that makes it as easy to
operate as a digital camera. It is four times lighter and
five times smaller than its predecessor and is the smallest
and lightest laser scanner ever built.
Focus3D uses laser technology to produce incredibly
detailed three-dimensional images of complex environments
and geometries in only a few minutes. The resulting image is
an assembly of millions of 3D measurement points in color
which provides an exact digital reproduction of existing
conditions.
The new FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D is suitable for
documentation of large environments, quality control of
components and reverse engineering. Thanks to its
millimeter-accuracy and its 976,000 measurement
points/second, the Focus3D offers an efficient and precise
method for measurement and three-dimensional documentation
of building construction, excavation volumes, façade and
structural deformations, crime scenes, accident sites,
product geometry, factories, process plants, and more.
The Focus3D is entirely self-contained, meaning no
additional devices, cables or laptop are needed. With its
dimensions of 9.5 x 8 x 4 in. and a weight of 11lbs, the
Focus3D is so compact and mobile that users can always take
it with them, wherever they go.
Focus3D deploys an integrated color camera with automatic
and parallax free color overlay for photo-realistic 3D
scans. Its integrated lithium-ion high-performance battery
provides up to five hours of battery life and can be charged
during operation. Furthermore, all scans are stored on a SD
card enabling easy and secure data transfer to a computer.
The FARO Focus3D is compatible with many common software
applications. The flexible interfaces of SCENE, the scan
processing software included with the Focus3D, enable
connection to AutoCAD as well as many other CAD applications
such as Rhino, Microstation, Nemetschek and ArchiCAD.
“With the revolutionary Focus3D, FARO provides
architects, civil engineers and plant designers with an
efficient tool for rapid, seamless and precise documentation
of the current status of buildings, plants and construction
sites of every kind. The Focus3D offers advanced
functionality through a simple user interface and expands
the user base beyond the expert, moving phase shift laser
scanning across the technology chasm”, stated Jay Freeland,
FARO’s Chief Executive Officer.
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FARO
Walter Prototyp introduced a new multi-function
tool to reduce machine times for threaded hole
applications by up to 50 percent. The new TMD solid
carbide thread mill combines drilling, 90°
countersinking and threading capabilities into one
tool.
Benefits for the customer:
- Cost savings with cycle time reductions up to 50
percent
- Cost savings with fewer tools required for
production
- High quality threads – surface finish and
tolerancing
Attributes of the TMD thread mill:
Walter Prototyp TMD solid carbide thread mills
can perform the complete production of internal
threads ranging from M6 to M16 in cast aluminum and
cast iron components up to 2xD in both through hole
and blind hole applications. The TMD is equally
suited for components with precast holes or drilling
from solid. Walter Prototyp offers two optimized
coatings, TAX (TiAlN) coating for cast iron and an
NHC (Diamond) coating for non-ferrous metals. A
3-flute design with a 27° helix angle aids chip
evacuation that is additionally supported by another
important feature when producing blind holes, a
central coolant supply with three outlets.
The TMD thread mill can be easily integrated into
the overall process with the aid of our exclusive
TEC-CCS cutting data software. The free TEC-CCS
software will not only aid in the tool
recommendation it will also provide cutting data and
a CNC program.
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Walter Prototyp
The KONTEC KSK 5A is the first completely
encapsulated 5 axis centric clamping device. Its
unique design ensures total functionality and
maximum process reliability – even in a rough
environment and makes malfunctions due to soiling
and clamped chips a thing of the past.
This device can be operated from either side, is
compact, and has a large clamping range. The
centering accuracy is 0.02 mm, and it can be used as
a clamping unit for blanks or as a
precision-clamping module. Thanks to the latest
slide geometry, this tool can be integrated directly
into change pallets without any base body.
The length is only 170 mm, with a jaw width of 65
mm, and a clamping range of 0 - 152 mm. The clamping
force is 20 kN at 65 Nm, and the centering accuracy
is 0.02 mm.
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SCHUNK Inc.
OMAX’s
120X abrasive waterjet was designed to meet the needs of manufacturers
working with large parts.
Four specific models of the OMAX® 120X are
available, with lengths of 13 feet, 20 feet, 26 feet
and 32 feet. Each of the models is 10 feet in width
and features work envelopes capable of handling
standard domestic and international sheet material
sizes.
The 120X was developed in response to a rise in
demand for large-scale precision machining from
manufacturers serving a variety of industries,
including aerospace, petroleum, and equipment
fabricators. By integrating proven technologies, it
is in the mold of the established 80X line. In
doubling the traverse speed, the machine ensures
high productivity levels.
Featuring a patent pending drive system with
closed loop, high pole vector drives, it
achievesaccurate and precise movement. The Intelli-TRAX™
traction drive further ensures higher accuracy. The
traction drive system makes this a robust and
reliable system that is well suited to harsh
environments and requires little maintenance. The
worktable comes standard with submersible cutting
capability.
The center incorporates the OMAX’s Intelli-MAX®
Premium Software, which runs on a Windows® operating
system. The system can calculate the velocity of a
tool path at over 2,000 points per inch, allowing
for complete control over the motion of an
abrasivejet, and enabling precise, rapid machining.
Additionally, a USB port on the Y-axis bridge allows
direct connection to a machine controller and
additional E-stop/Pause button pendant. This allows
for more convenient operation when working near the
cutting zone. The 120X has the ability to cut with
an accuracy of motion up to +/- 0.005".
Additionally, it does not require tool changes or
complex fixturing, reducing setup times by at least
50%.
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OMAX
Corporation