Beginning around six years ago, one machine tool builder after another added laser cutting and even welding to their products’ already impressive repertoires.
Hainbuch America Corp., Germantown, Wis., offers a modular workholding system with maximum flexibility and designed for a wide range of part diameters, configurations and small quantities.
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For the highest levels of competitive benchrest and extreme long-range (ELR) shooting, feats of precision manufacturing and machining are required for success. Like Formula 1 racing cars or PGA golfers’ clubs, world-class competition rifles are made with highly engineered precision parts.
Whether driven by the reduction of in-shop personnel due to layoffs or to maintain social distancing guidelines into the future, many machine shops will likely be re-evaluating ways to eliminate labor-intensive manual operations if they can be automated instead.
Like just about every other manufacturing operation, welding has made the leap into the 21st century with automation, agile manufacturing processes, and offline programming.
TDM Systems, a digitalization specialist and provider of tool data management systems for industry has announced the latest version of its TDM and TDM Global Line. The releases offers numerous enhanced developments as well as new modules that help users reduce their tooling costs and increase their efficiency, according to TDM Systems.
YG-1 has added to its DREAM DRILLS lineup with the new DREAM DRILLS PRO line, which is optimized for machining in steel and cast iron, according to a company statement.
Marposs announces Aeroel MECLAB.T40 bench-top laser measurement system for measuring tools and blanks.
There’s more to machining than machine tools and cutters. Shops also need an assortment of machine components to keep their CNC lathes and machining centers humming.