For the 20th anniversary of EuroMold from 3 to 6 December 2013 at the exhibition center in Frankfurt/Main – the organizer DEMAT GmbH expects more than 1,100 exhibitors and over 55,000 trade visitors and sets-up some highlights. EuroMold is one of the world’s leading trade fairs for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design and Application Development. As the only annual trade fair for machine tools in Germany, it has become an established must-attend event for manufacturers and users in the industry. (…)

As part of its strategic development, the specialised trade show Siams wished to learn more about the expectations of its exhibitors. To rely on relevant and usable information, the organizers have set-up a satisfaction survey. We met with Mr. Michel Voisard, director of Mediactif in Vevey, the institute of customers’ relation, who conducted this study. Sometimes satisfaction surveys lead to interpretation errors resulting in bad decisions and erroneous improvement measures. Mr. Voisard (…)

Medical devices have and are undergoing rapid change, generating pressure on the manufacture of components. Even some of the more basic parts such as screws have evolved as regards type, design, quality demands and delivery demands. In response, machinery, methods and tooling are developing to meet demands from a growing industry. The sliding-head machine provides an advantageous basis for very efficient machining – where parts are small but the differences in degree of utilization is (…)

In the creation of a high vacuum, oil-free membrane pumps provide the necessary fore-vacuum and turbo pumps perform the final compression. High-quality metal connecting components provide for reliable and permanently leak-proof connections in this process. For more than half a century, Vacuubrand GmbH + CO KG, located in the North Baden city of Wertheim, has specialised in technology for the generation of vacuums. The product spectrum includes, for example, rotary vane pumps, oil-free (…)

Delcam has added its new Vortex high-efficiency area clearance strategy to the latest release of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system. Vortex was introduced initially as the key enhancement for the 2014 version of Delcam’s PowerMILL software for high-speed and five-axis machining. Vortex, for which Delcam has a patent pending, has been developed specifically to gain the maximum benefit from solid carbide tooling, in particular those designs that can give deeper cuts by using the full (…)

In all areas, users of machines-tools, whether turning or milling, seek solutions to machine more effectively, to place tools in reduced spaces, or also to increase the number of tools available in fixed kinematics. The answers to all of these needs are precisely the forces of Pibomulti/Emissa (Switzerland). Meeting with Mr. Pierre Boschi, director and owner of the company, for whom nothing (or almost) is impossible. On the occasion of Midest Paris, on the ’special machines’ village, the (…)

The boom in giant aircraft, particularly, is driving a radical transformation in the materials of choice: suddenly, titanium, nickel-based alloys, ultra-high-strength steels and carbon-fibre composites have to be machined on a large scale and at high levels of productivity. Metav 2014 will showcase prospects for new cooling strategies Conventional cooling lubricant concepts often come up against their physical limits here. The potential of cryogenic cooling compared to conventional (…)

For many specialists working with machining companies in France and Europe, the name of Huron is a little part of the past. It is the brand of the machine on which they learned. It is always there and one may think about it with nostalgia, but seldom with a clear vision of what it is today: a dynamic manufacturer who offers extraordinary machines and machining processes. Meeting near Strasbourg with Ms. Labeauvie, Marketing Manager and MM. Echevard, CEO and Lutz, commercial Director. (…)

SWSTech AG takes pride in solving ingenious technological challenges in the production of components. The example presented here is a new turbine wheel in titanium aluminide (TiAl) produced by the company. If most thermally exposed exhaust gas turbochargers’ turbine wheels were, until today, cast and finished by machining, they are nowadays more and more often realized by CNC milling in new lighter materials. Innovative project In the automotive, industry and more particularly in (…)

For years it seems that manufacturers have been developing tools that are ahead of the capacities of the means of production for which they are intended. With its 701S machine, Willemin-Macodel gives them room to think and innovate. Indeed, this micro-machining center unveiled at the EMO is able to push the capabilities of the tools to their limits, thus providing manufacturers of tools a new field of action. Meeting with Mr. Denis Jeannerat, Technical Director and Anne Hirtzlin, (…)