3D waterjet cutting
The Edge X-5 5-axis waterjet cuts precise, taper-free parts from a range of materials. The waterjet system is capable of cutting 3D parts such as impellers and bevels up to 50°. Sturdy design separates the motion system from the catcher tank to eliminate vibration and ensure part quality. The ballscrew-driven system features direct-couple AC brushless digital servo motors, providing the repeatability at ±0.001". Critical bearing components are protected with heavy metal covers with brush seals and positive air pressure.
Jet Edge Inc.
Three-flute drill
The 3-fluted Tritan-Drill allows more bores, longer tool life, lower machining costs, and higher feed-rate machining. The drill provides rounder bores and reduced burr formation, while its geometry produces optimum chip removal and low cutting pressure. It handles difficult drilling situations such as cross bores, inclined bore entrance, and long-chipping materials. The drill machines steels, cast materials, and non-ferrous metals and is available in diameters of 5mm to 20mm in designs up to 8xD.
Mapal Inc.
Robotic grit-blast system
The RB-10 robotic grit blast surface preparation system has a 60" x 60" finishing chamber with a reinforced 60" x 48" vestibule at the rear to house an ABB Robotics IRB-2600 robot for a single pressure-blast nozzle. A 24" diameter turntable inside the blast enclosure is servomotor-driven and controlled as a seventh axis of robotic motion, enabling precise orientation of the workpiece. To handle heavy components, the system comes with a crane slot and a roof-mounted jib hoist with a 500 lb capacity.
A mechanical conveyor positioned below the blast enclosure transfers blast media from the finishing enclosure to the reclaimer.
Used grit is delivered to the base of a bucket elevator with a cascade air wash separator at its top. Once dust and fines are extracted from the blasting grit, it passes through a vibratory screen classifier, and abrasive grain of the specified size is returned to a 10ft3 capacity pressure pot. An automatic media adder replenishes the grit supply from a storage hopper when electronic sensors detect a low media level.
Guyson Corp.
Fabricating 3D composite parts
The robot-based additive manufacturing (RAM) platform for fabricating 3D printed composite parts consists of a standard robot, composite deposition end-effector hardware, and a software suite. Designed for ABB’s IRB 120 6-axis robot, the scalable software can support larger ABB robot models and sizes. The additive end-effector hardware consists of a deposition head with advanced thermal management technology for processing high-performance carbon-fiber reinforced thermoplastic filaments.
The solution maximizes size, scalability, and production efficiency, enabling technologies such as automation and secondary process integration within manufacturing work cells. Depending upon the size of the robot, the part build envelope is scalable from 1,000mm3 to 8m3.
Arevo Labs
Wear-resistant turning insert grades
TH1000 and TH1500 turning insert grades have positive and negative geometries, chip breakers, and nose radius sizes, allowing increased machining capabilities for manufacturers that process hardened steels, superalloys, and cast irons.
Edge toughness and high chip resistance of the TH1000 TiSiNTiAlN nanolaminate PVD-coated grade is designed for ISO H5-H10 applications. The insert maintains long tool life when machining hardened steels from 50HRC to 62HRC, hard surfaced components, and superalloys. TH1000 excels in finishing operations and interrupted cuts in hardened steels. When machining Inconel 718, Waspaloy, and Nimonic C263, the grade brings fast cutting speeds to continuous finishing and semi-finishing operations.
When processing hardened steels, from 40HRC to 55HRC, the Duratomic TH1500 grade is for ISO H10-H15 applications requiring high cutting data and continuous-cut operations. TH1500 provides finish turning of grey and ductile cast irons in applications with low-to-moderate cutting speeds.
Its advanced grade profile includes an abased Al2O3 CVD coating, Ti (C,N) middle layer, and a super fine-grain substrate, making it an alternative to CBN and ceramic cutting tools in machining hardened steel workpieces in unstable conditions.
Seco Tools LLC
Cost-estimating software
Costimator Version 14 includes 3DFX automated feature recognition (AFR) , enhanced cost models, cost/profit reports, and SQL server 2014 compatibility. The 3DFX AFR add-on recognizes CAD features and their parameters from solid models giving estimators control over features they extract and import, increasing cost estimating and quoting throughput up to 90%.
MTI Systems
Gear inspection system
The 300GMSP turnkey gear inspection system is designed for aerospace, automotive, and smaller power transmission industry applications. An active leveling system attenuates a broad spectrum of normal production environment vibrations, producing measurement values in parallel with those achieved in controlled calibration laboratories. Shop floor thermal fluctuations are proactively compensated, allowing for reliable inspection results. The system identifies and applies a compensation for factory floor influences in real time.
Gleason Corp.
Electronic weld head system
The Series 320 electronic weld head system is for precise position and force control applications including squib wire, fine wire, and electrode welding. Suitable for microelectronics manufacturing, as well as for industrial requirements and environments, it features inline and offset opposed electrode configurations for flexibility, and accurate force and position parameters. Users can set displacement limits using a weld-to-displacement feature to stop the weld precisely during collapse. The I/O offers four programmable relay outputs for integration with programmable logic controllers.
Amada Miyachi America
Simulation software
The Vericut CNC 7.4 simulation software features faster processing speeds, supporting longer tool life and increased part quality. The system’s desktop has a docking method enabling Vericut’s desktop to be configured with server customization options. An updated status window provides better viewing, customization, and size with information divided into groups, each containing a specific list. The software’s tool manager’s desktop and user interface is redesigned to enable easier user interaction. Vericut 7.4 ships with a library of common tools.
CGTech
Metalworking fluid
Cimperial 861 with InSol Technology – a hybrid lubricity, semi-synthetic metalworking fluid – is approved under Bombardier BAMS 569-001 Revision B and is recommended for heavy-duty machining of non-ferrous and ferrous metals, including 6000 and 7000 series aluminum, stainless steels, and titanium. It can also be used for grinding and is formulated to deliver extended sump life. The product is designed to increase tool life and provide lubricity while remaining low-foaming in high-pressure applications. It has low chemical odor and is mild to the skin.
Milacron
Multi-blade reamers
Multi-blade reamers produce precision bores with up to 150% faster feed rates and reduced cycle times when compared with single-point tools. Increased production coupled with longer service life lowers the total cost of ownership. Standard tooling is available with short or long shaft lengths, with or without internal coolant supply, and in diameters from 5.600mm to 60.599mm (special diameters to 100.599mm).
Monaghan Tooling Group
Multi-axis machining software
NCL V10.1 features reduce programming time and increase tool path efficiency, allowing users to create their own machining features and add them into NCL.
NCL V10.1 determines pocket boundaries and whether it is open or closed. Tool path calculations adjust to overlap the open boundaries of the pocket and stay within its walls and accommodate fillets between pocket floor and walls. Rotary axes setup in PostWorks, NCCS’ universal 10-axis post-processor, can be defined to rotate about any vector, allowing definition of more complex rotary table/head type machines.
Numerical Control Computer Sciences
Precision 3-, 6-jaw lathe chuck
Rota NCS is a lathe chuck with active pull-down action of the jaws, suitable for external and internal clamping applications and available as a 3- and 6-jaw chuck. In the 6-jaw version, the pendulum mechanism is integrated, which can be adjusted in pairs for sensitive, deformation-free clamping of thin-walled parts.
The 6-jaw chuck is also for external and internal clamping, and can accurately clamp irregular, non-circular components.
Schunk Inc.
High-performance end mills
The TuffCut XT series 278, 5-flute high-performance end mills include more than 400 added items for additional lengths of cut, corner radii, and Weldon flat options. The end mills minimize process downtime and maximize productivity and cost efficiency, and are coated with Altima Blaze to enhance edge protection for applications in steels, stainless steels, special alloys, and cast irons.
M.A. Ford
Turning centers
Four models join the Puma GT series of turning centers offers: Puma GT2600, GT2600M, GT2600L, and GT2600LM. The models include a 30° single-piece slant-bed design, box guideways, fast non-lifting servo driven turret, and EZ Guide i conversational programming system.
Standard chuck size is 10" (optional 12") with a maximum swing over bed of 24.8" and swing over saddle of 18.1". Maximum turning length is 25.9" on the Puma GT2600; 24" for Puma GT2600M; while the long bed versions offer 42.4" on the Puma GT2600L and 40.6" on the Puma GT2600LM. Maximum bar working diameter is 3.2" on all four models.
Doosan Infracore America Machine Tools
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