Aerospace seminar aims to boost productivity

To be held on 8 October, other speakers include Renishaw, Sandvik Coromant and System 3R. The event will cover the latest advances from each of the companies that will help aerospace manufacturers to increase their productivity and profitability. Machining technology has progressed faster than ever over recent years. Developments in machine tools have been accompanied by improvements in all the related equipment, including more sophisticated programming software, cutting tools that can operate as speeds that would have been unthinkable, and faster and more flexible inspection methods. All of these aspects will be covered during the seminar. The presentations will show how important it is for companies to review their operations regularly so they can ensure that they are operating as efficiently as possible in today's highly competitive business environment. For further information and an invitation to the October seminar, contact: Peter Dickin, marketing manager, 0121 683 1081 (direct line). * Delcam's PartMaker Division and DMG's Gital America subsidiary have entered into a strategic partnership to greater enhance the productivity of programming Gital's line up of multi-axis turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes. Many leading Gital users around the US and the world have already standardised on PartMaker for programming. This partnership marks a move by Gital to encourage the more productive off-line programming of its machines. Under terms of the partnership, Gital applications engineers will undergo training on PartMaker for use with their applications requirements and cooperate with PartMaker's software developers in the support of programming for new Gital machine models that come to the market place. "PartMaker is the CAM system of choice of many leading Gital users," according to Roberto Nicoli, Gital America sales manager. "As we seek to enhance our customer's productivity with our ever more advanced machine tools, it only made sense to team up with the developers of PartMaker."