Without excellent tool preparation, it is impossible to achieve great turning results. When using tools which can be resharpened, this operation is therefore of prime importance. The Agathon 175 DIA has been designed to ensure easy use and perfect quality sharpening. Mr. Bandi, CEO of Bandi SA, high precision turning company with more than 150 NC automatic lathes, is convinced that his company’s success can be partly attributed to their choice of production equipment. It’s not wise to try (…)

Sharply improved results, but still heavily impacted by the crisis. By 31 December 2010, the Tornos Group had emerged from the three-year recession which had affected it since the start of 2008. The cyclical low point was reached in mid-2009 and the upturn began in the first quarter of 2010, and gradually gathered speed throughout the year, which ended with activity at close to its pre-recession level. The crisis is now behind us, and the recovery is robust. François Frôté, Chairman of the (…)

This year, Chiron’s Open House 2011will take place from May 18 - 21, 2011 in Tuttlingen, and again offer interesting innovations. Here is a sneak preview of the highlights. Chiron’s Open House 2011 is a meeting point for experts. . New double-spindle DZ 08K S Magnum The company will be celebrating a world premiere with the first-time presentation of the new double-spindle DZ 08K S Magnum five axis – a super-fast compact machine of the 08 series for excellent surface quality. (…)

Drive solutions that are matched perfectly to the application are a basic requirement for keeping machines and systems competitive. Inverters must be taken out of the switching cabinet and placed in the direct vicinity of the machine. This allows configurable modules to become mechatronic units that can be easily connected, which considerably reduces the delivery times, installation space and commissioning times. The ACOPOSmulti65 inverter for applications where the drive is mounted (…)

Head of R&D, Quality and Regulatory Affairs manager, General managers, Marketing and Sales directors, Reimbursement manager, Product and project managers, Engineers, you might be interested by Implant’s high-level conferences! The organizers have gathered worldwide speakers from major orthopaedic companies to discuss advanced topics such as sterilization, coatings, reimbursement, quality, R&D or manufacturing, to give a really high-level to those conferences, so you could have the (…)

“Medtech market insights: USA” organized by Medtech Switzerland and Oslo Medtech in Winterthur (March 29/30), Lausanne (March 31/April, 2011) and Oslo (April 4th – 5th, 2011), is designed to give you first-hand insights into the biggest medical technology goods market in the world. To evaluate market opportunities and to be aware of the challenges of the U.S.-market the organizers designed a program tailored to medtech manufacturers, suppliers and service providers. Be it that your company (…)

European premieres as highlights of the exhibition. From May 11 to 13, 2011, Newemag’s open house in Rotkreuz focuses on particularly interesting products. Visitors will have the opportunity to see a beautiful range of high-quality machines. For example an evolution of the BNA machine by Miyano, the BNA-42 DHY series and the new SKT -180 TTSY by Hyundai-Kia will be presented. In Rotkreuz, from May 11 to 13, Newemag opens its doors to its customers, its suppliers and specialists. The company (…)

This year will see the celebration of the 10th edition of EPHJ (Watchmaking-Jewellery) and the 5th edition of EPMT (Microtechnologies). The space reserved for the event at the beginning of the year was already greater than that devoted to the entire 2010 edition! Increasingly a go-to event, the EPHJ-EPMT fair continues to expand unabated, a recurring phenomenon since its creation in 2002, even given the less favourable economic climate. Around 600 players, including 20% or so hailing from (…)

Robots from Stäubli can now be directly operated with B&R controllers. This is possible thanks to a Powerlink interface on Stäubli’s uniVAL drives that allows Generic Motion Control programs from B&R controllers to be transferred to the robots. In this way, robotics engineers can use the uniform programming and operating environment provided by B&R controllers. The easy integration of Stäubli robots is guaranteed using uniVAL drives and Powerlink networks. Robots are connected (…)

An authoritative new White Paper on modern nesting has been published by Planit, the company that developed the world’s most powerful sheet metal CAD/CAM software, Radan. With the sea change in what nesting can now do for companies, manufacturers should ask themselves the following questions, revolving around where they want to be in five years time: Do I want to increase my output? Do I want to better utilise my staff? Do I want to increase automation? Do I want to make my resources go (…)