The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) at Glasgow is involved in investigating the use of ultrasonic sound as a solution to the internal measurement of additively manufactured metal ...

JCB started assembling a range of own-design diesel engines to power its vehicles in 2004. Volumes have since ramped up and now the company has, following a £10 million investment, brought in house related machining ...

Next month sees Europe’s most important biennial manufacturing technology exhibition. Machinery has this run-down of new products that have been revealed as being on view at EMO 2017. Alpha order listed by UK ...

There may be many still puzzling over the change of name in 2015 from Hexagon Metrology to Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence (Hexagon MI) and who still see the company as a metrology operation. At the Las Vegas event, ...

JLR’s new powertrain metrology facility offers engineers access to unprecedented levels of precision, thanks to a dozen-strong fleet of the best equipment in the business. But that’s just the start of the ambitious ...

Kyocera SGS Precision Tools Europe hosted one of its first UK events since being bought by the Japanese industrial conglomerate Kyocera last year. Key themes were technical collaboration and superalloys, Will Dalrymple ...

After years of suffering the best attempts by winter weather to dismantle Southern Manufacturing’s coated fabric tent pavilion at Farnborough, including high winds and large quantities of water too, the organisers have ...

Faro demonstrated and introduced several laser scanning metrology innovations to be launched this year at an event at its Rugby service centre in November 2016. Will Dalrymple was there

Final quality assurance checks of flat parts no longer need to be carried out manually using a micrometer or optical comparator. A new generation of image capture devices confirm whether a part’s 2D edge and surface ...

With post-MACH 2016 discussions and orders still playing out, exhibition organiser the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) has already moved on to organising MACH 2018 (9-13 April at the NEC - ...

Inbuilt 3D error maps are commonly employed to correct for repeatable errors in coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). CMM recalibration often requires that these maps be updated, but they are typically only accessible ...

The annual Hexagon Live meeting took place earlier this year. Ola Rollén, Hexagon AB president and CEO, explained Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s business approach, offering ‘a rewriting of the manufacturing ...

Manufacturing’s image; Cincinnati Milacron – another low-cost VMC, eyes growing market share; Yamazaki Machinery UK one of the 10 best in the world; Renishaw easy accuracy check; modular fixturing; gang-tooled lathes; ...

Processing speed has proven a vital competitive advantage for Italian firm Alumat, a designer and manufacturer of steel dies for aluminium extrusions, and has been achieved not through its choice of cutting machine, but ...

At composites part specialist Reverie, a Baty R14 profile projector is used for non-contact measurement and inspection of autoclaved carbon fibre composite parts, and also as a method of checking CNC cutting tool ...

At Cardiff-based home appliance maker Panasonic Manufacturing UK, a Faro Edge ScanArm (02476 973000) that employs laser technology is being used to replace the need for a range of relatively dedicated measuring ...