Precision, reliability and economic efficiency have the highest priority for Buschor Praezisionsmechanik AG. With two Kern Micro five-axis machining centers, the Swiss company has improved its overall performance. Werner Buschor leaves nothing to chance. In order to manufacture the high-precision parts which he supplies to the optical and aerospace industries, the Swiss medium-sized company has structured the entire machining process chain with incredibly small tolerances. The entire (…)

The ReMotion Knee, a low cost prosthetic knee joint, is the latest winner of the Cool Idea! Award from Proto Labs, the world’s fastest manufacturer of CNC machined and injection moulded parts. Proto Labs launched the Cool Idea! Award in 2011 to give product designers the opportunity to bring their innovations to life by presenting up to $250,000 worth of prototyping and short-run production services to award recipients. D-Rev, designer and manufacturer of the ReMotion knee, is 2013’s first (…)

The Renishaw QC20-W ballbar system is widely recognised as a preventative maintenance tool for new and installed machines. Aquasub Engineering (Coimbatore, India), part of the Aqua Group, one of the largest pump manufacturing companies in Asia, is using QC20-W ballbar to reduce maintenance costs, increase capacity and reduce scrappage. With an increasing emphasis on Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Aquasub started looking for solutions and on discovering that Renishaw had launched a new (…)

CNCzone has entered into a strategic alliance with CNC-Arena, the leading forum portal for production technology in the German-speaking nations. It is thus extending its supportive capabilities and upgrading its international focus. “Since being founded in 2001, CNC-Arena has been a success story on the German-speaking web”, comments Frank Nolden, Managing Director of CNC-Arena GmbH. He ads: “So we’re all the more gratified that now we’re allied to CNCzone we can tap into the international (…)

As well as two years ago; the available floor space is fully booked. Although compared to 2011 an extension floor space has been made possible for 2013 in collaboration with the city and the manager of the Südwestmesse Park. The available surface in Villingen Schwenningen is not sufficient for all interested exhibitors. 271 exhibitors present themsleves there this week. "On average, exhibitors have expanded their booth surface by approximately 15% compared to 2011", says Martin Hämmerle, (…)

Delcam is working with Iruba, a German provider of engineered solutions, and machine-tool manufacturer Hermle to develop a novel five-axis machining method, programmed with the PowerMILL CAM system, for the creation of “fir-tree” profiles in components for turbo machinery. The new turbo machining process using Delcam’s PowerMILL offers an alternative to broaching. The milling approach, which is based on the trochoidal machining strategies in PowerMILL, has been patented by Iruba. It allows (…)

Tornos recently unveiled its new high-precision vertical Almac CU 2007 machining centre. This machining centre has longer strokes than its smaller cousin, the CU 1007. Tornos is aiming to expand its activity on a global scale in the milling sector, and to meet demands in other industries, including microtechnology, while preserving the high precision and expertise for which Almac centres have become renowned throughout the watchmaking sector. Two new machines have been developed as part of (…)

At Hannover Messe there are a lot of Swiss companies exhibiting, but the Osec booth on Hall 4 “only” presents 8 companies. Let’s start with these. We’ve just met with Mr. Bräm, the CEO of bräm: high precision mechanics and discovered some incredible parts (between a few millimeters to something like 20 centimeters or so). Founded in 1965 the company is nowadays specialized in many high precision operations and assemblies. They can do all but turning, i.e. milling, grinding, electro chemical (…)

Delcam has launched the 2012 R2 release of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system, which includes important new strategies for roughing and turn-mill operations, alongside a range of more general enhancements to allow faster toolpath generation. Delcam’s new FeatureCAM release supports turning with live tooling. The main addition to FeatureCAM 2012 R2 is a series of new strategies for 2.5D roughing. These include a continuous spiral option to minimise wear on the cutter and machine tool, (…)

The recent evolution of the market-leading Edgecam CNC software means manufacturers can achieve more machining in the same production time. Edgecam users from around the UK saw live machining demonstrations at Mazak’s European Technology Centre, showing how a revolutionary new Waveform Roughing Strategy in Edgecam 2012 R1 cuts cycle time from 63 minutes to just 18 minutes, and improves the metal removal rate from 30 cm3 per minute to 135 cm3 per minute. The demonstrations were part of the (…)