The recent change at the head of Suvema, the company located in Biberist (SO) doesn’t affect the strategy that has ensured the success of the company for 40 years: personalized high quality service established as corporate culture. To open the company to a new style of management while keeping what makes its strength: this is the challenge of a successful transmission as confirm MM. Robert Haüsler, former owner and Roland Gutknecht, new CEO of Suvema SA. Pioneer of CNC machine tools (…)

Every year, a few weeks before Baselworld, specialists in watchmaking machining come from Switzerland, southern Germany and France to attend the Tornos Journées Horlogères open days, where they are able to discover new products, get advice and make purchases. In 2015, this hotly anticipated event will take place at the company’s premises in Moutier from March 3 to 6. Brice Renggli, marketing manager, explains: "During the event, we present complete watchmaking solutions and all of our (…)

The next in-house exhibition, the Chiron Open House, will take place from Wednesday, March 18 to Friday, March 20, 2015 in Tuttlingen, Germany. Under the motto "Ahead through variety", this machine builder will show how machining centers can be flexibly adapted to customized requirements and order-specific tasks using its modular system. Many practical examples will show how customers are achieving maximum productivity, top machining quality and short throughput times. As a highlight, for (…)

In the heart of Europe, DMG MORI opens today and tomorrow its new global headquarters. From this base in the Swiss city of Winterthur, the sale and service activities of all European companies within the German-Japanese cooperation will be controlled. As before, the German market will be controlled by Stuttgart. With its new global headquarters in Winterthur, DMG MORI has established a globally powerful sales & service centre. The grand opening represents yet another milestone on the (…)

The first immediately noticeable change in this new version of the Tornos tool is in the name of the product: from now on, the software suite will be called "TISIS" which stands for "Tornos ISO Swiss Integrated Solution". But there is much more to discover, see the menu for the latest developments. TISIS-Screen The TISIS software suite features a new TISIS-Screen application for monitoring the machine inventory. This Windows application is an add-on supplied with the connectivity pack and (…)

Haas Automation is celebrating building and supplying its 150,000th CNC machine tool: a DS-30SSY dual-spindle turning centre with Y-axis. At a special handing-over ceremony to mark the occasion, Haas Automation Europe’smanaging director Alain Reynvoet attended the Manufacturing and Automation Expo 2014, Stockholm, to meet the owners of Swedish company Claesson Engineering – a general, precision engineering business founded by three brothers – and to present them with a commemorative plate (…)

The recent THINK: Production 2014 event that was co-hosted by Tornos and Matsuura proved a resounding success for the Swiss sliding head lathe manufacturer. The three day event in Coalville, drew over 200 high calibre visitors with one of the Tornos highlights being the sale of an ST26 turning centre to Hullmatic. Balancing operations The acquisition of the Tornos ST26 comes off the back of a successful ST26 installation in September. The first ST26 was installed at Hullmatic as a direct (…)

The Siemens Sinumerik CNC controllers have been getting the maximum productivity out of each machine for over 50 years. Now they have another partner on their side: the Hainbuch Testit software. It is available on a data carrier for installation on Siemens CNC controllers [Sinumerik 840 D sl plus PCU50]. This means that a separate laptop is not needed anymore and manufacturing with “theoretical clamping forces” is also a thing of the past. Thanks to Testit, the operator always knows which (…)

After AMB, we discussed about the new Star SW 12 RII in Micronora. The company’s representatives are very confident that the machine may be a hit on the market. A combination of the opposing gang-type tool post and the tool post designed for back 8-spindle unit with Y-axis control function eases quick and flexible machining of complicated parts. Productivity, accuracy and high functionality Based on the famous SW7, the machine has been designed to tackle challenges of today in term of (…)

In grinding technology, the trend is still full-sequence machining. Especially with workpieces with complex geometries that need to be finished on grinding machines with high degrees of freedom, this reduces queue time and work-in-process inventory. At the same time, less re-chucking means more precision. High quality production parts and tools for milling, indexable inserts and step drills are all examples of this. At AMB, HAAS Schleifmaschinen GmbH in Trossingen, Germany is presenting (…)