DMM Engineering's has calculated that its Chick Workholding fast-acting vices have cut set-up times by 70-80% making its vertical machining centres (VMCs) 30-40% more productive. Machinery reports
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Complex parts, tight tolerances, difficult materials? Nothing a trip to Autosport 2012 won't resolve. Steed Webzell previews the main attractions
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Steed Webzell previews Southern Manufacturing 2012, which has grown to become the UK's largest regional manufacturing technology and subcontracting exhibition (with video links)
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Workholding is an essential element in any manufacturing process. Andrew Allcock catches up with latest product developments and applications, discovering that energy-saving is one development driver
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Machinery previews what is certain to be another rewarding event for visitors and exhibitors alike at Autosport Engineering 2011
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Smart, modular, rapid-change systems are providing optimum workholding technology for a growing number of machine shops, as Steed Webzell discovers
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The automotive sector was among the first to emerge from recession, which in turn has prompted renewed investment in manufacturing technology. Steed Webzell reports
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Andrew Allcock spent five days at MACH 2010 (7-11 June) and delivers this positive verdict on a show that was held at a difficult time but which delivered above many's expectations [extended version of magazine article]
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An Austrian toolmaker is applying Blum's on-machine measurement software, FormControl V3; standardised workholding pays off for an in-house toolroom; VISI software cuts delivery times by half
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New figures substantiate claims that the automotive industry is returning to prosperity, following a gloomy period for car-making. Machinery assesses whether capital investment will follow suit
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The barfeed is noted as an unassuming machine shop workhorse, but there is more than meets the eye to this affordable yet effective technology. Steed Webzell reports
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Steed Webzell pores over latest workholding technology developments and presents his gripping review
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Machinery reviews three technology applications that are making a difference to companies in the aerospace sector. Toolholding, sliding-head turning and inspection come under the spotlight
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Increasing the output from existing equipment via pallet-based workholding systems is a theme at two different companies
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Autosport Engineering takes place at the NEC, Birmingham, with trade days designated as 8 and 9 January. Machinery previews the manufacturing technology element.
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Posting its strongest showing since 2000, September’s IMTS in Chicago proved that the US manufacturing technologies sector is alive and well.
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Reduced operator fatigue, increased productivity plus higher component accuracy and repeatability have been won through investment in latest workholding technology.
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Simple but reliable and accurate workholding technology complements high-tech 5-axis machining at Hemlock Engineering.
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Craftsman Tools, the Yorkshire-based provider of workholding equipment, toolholding products and contract machining services, is doing a roaring trade. Turnover now stands at £4.5 million, with 60 per cent of this generated by UK customers, employee count is up 10 per cent on last year (currently standing at 54) and investment is at record levels.
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Some 50 delegates attended Machinery’s 5-axis seminar last month at the Heritage Motor Centre. Machine tools, CNC, tooling, workholding, programming, program simulation and user experience, all formed part of the day, which took in nine presentations in total.
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The new toolholding system for the all-new Hardinge RS-Series turning centres — Eppinger’s ESA top-plate, toolholders and PreciFlex adapters — was developed and made on the German toolholder specialist’s four Harding Quest CNC turning centres. Today, machining time on almost all parts running on these four Quest turning centres with the new tooling system has fallen greatly — operating and set-up time have been reduced by 80 per cent. But the story started some years ago, recalls Eppinger GmbH president Ewe Eppinger whent he met a representative from Hardinge in Europe at an exhibition.
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Latest developments in chuck technology include Hardinge's Hydraulic Shape Compliant Chuck and SMW-Autoblok's D-210 diaphragm chuck which can hold a gear over its pitch line and get 5 micron bore concentricity.
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At Airbus' Broughton, North Wales site can be found the very latest in stringer machining technology involving a DS Technologie Ecoliner machining centre and special Roemheld fixturing. Machining times of 25 min/m have been slashed to just over 15 min/m, while unexpected benefits have also been achieved.
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Remploy provides sustainable employment for disabled people and has 84 UK sites operating in 13 separate business streams, the largest of which is Remploy Automotive with an annual turnover of some £55 million. Although the organisation receives a sizable annual subsidy from the Department for Work and Pensions (approximately £100 million) for employee training (and thousands of others that it places into industry elsewhere), Remploy Automotive has to tender for business on a level playing field with its competitors. To this end, the production engineering function at Remploy Automotive has to be as smart, if not smarter than that found elsewhere
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Over the years, standard fixture systems applied to EDM have delivered a highprecision (approx 0.002 mm), successful method of transferring workpieces and electrodes between various disciplines such as milling and grinding. Traditionally these systems have been categorised as beyond both the budgetary and accuracy targets of manufacturers that deploy conventional metalcutting processes – but attitudes are changing
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