Chris Pasion

Chris Pasion Managing Editor, Modern Machine Shop | Production Machining

Schunk's Automated Vise Offers Chip-Repellent Design

The Tandem PGS3’s compact design and square shape optimizes accessibility and enables a stroke of 6 mm per jaw. With a clamping force of 4,500 N and a repeat accuracy of 0.02 mm, the vise is said to be suitable for basic applications in aluminum and plastics machining.

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Methods Partners With Maruka, Expands Territory

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has signed an agreement Maruka USA that enables the company to expand into N.D., S.D., Minn., Iowa and Neb. The two companies have worked together since 2013.

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Sunnen Expands Line of All-Mechanical Bore Gages

Sunnen’s PG series brings reliable ID gaging to the manufacturing floor with no need for electrical or air connections, which reportedly makes them immune to fluctuations in line voltage or air pressure.

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Renishaw Partners With Verisurf, Expands CMM Software

With an emphasis on Verisurf’s CMM Programming and Inspection Suite, this agreement gives companies access to Renishaw’s REVO five‑axis measuring system and the Equator flexible gauging system.

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Cambrio Enhances Solid and Surface Modeling for Software

GibbsCAM 2022 introduces a number of usability enhancements, such as automated multi-shape predrilling and extended control for start/end points of profiling toolpaths.

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SMW Autoblok Releases Quick-Change Power Chuck

SMW Autoblok claims the KNCS-2G enables users to change jaws in under one minute, reducing downtime during changeovers.

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Okuma Launches New Double-Column Machining Center

Okuma’s MCR-BV is capable of five-axis contouring and five-sided heavy milling applications. The company says these heavy-duty applications are made possible through the machine’s powerful integral motor and spindle, as well as an expanded work envelope.

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Seco Tools Virtually Brings the Aerospace Industry Together

The Aerospace Inspiration through Innovation 2021 virtual event will enable attendees to see the results of innovative partnerships and discuss how collaboration can help them drive their business forward.

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In-Place Machining Company Acquires Oasis Alignment Services

The acquisition of Oasis, as well as of Exact Metrology in July of this year, contributes to IPM’s growing measurement and alignment division in the U.S. and Canada.

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Schunk's New Chuck Jaw Clamps a Range of Geometries

Schunk’s Rota-M Flex 2+2 chuck jaw is designed to provide increased flexibility for clampable workpiece geometries and a variety of possible applications.

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Enhance Production Monitoring With United Grinding's New System

United Grinding C.O.R.E. is said to open up new possibilities for networking, controlling and monitoring the production process; it brings the user experience of operators into the world of the smartphone generation.

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EDM Network's Wire EDM Series Provides Reusable Wire

The EDMMax 434W is a four-axis wire EDM that uses a 0.007" diameter molybdenum wire, which draws the water-based dielectric through the cut, cooling it and pulling the small chips out of the kerf at a very fast rate.

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