Lori Beckman

Lori Beckman Executive Editor

Additive System Designed for Serialized Production

PMTS 2017: Designed and engineered with serialized production in mind, the RenAM 500M additive manufacturing system builds complex metallic components directly from CAD using metal powder bed fusion technology.

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Machining Simulator Encompasses Complete Manufacturing Process

PMTS 2017: The machining simulator features Autodesk Fusion 360 CAD/CAM/CAE software and a custom machining simulation program designed by ModuleWorks.

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Cutting Tools

Toolholder with Single-Base Holder and Adapters with ER Collect Pocket

PMTS 2017: According to the company, the modular system is the first tooling system on the market with a single-base holder and multiple tooling adapters that use the ER collet pocket.

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Workholding

Burn Table Lift Magnet System

PMTS 2017: With a magnetic circuit design, this advanced transfer system can also lift single sheets or plates as much as 3” thick from a stack to load the table.

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Turning Machines

Precise, Rigid Bar Feeder Offers 20-Second Bar Change Times

PMTS 2017: Work can be done on the bar feeder with maximum reliability on the smallest bars available because of the accurate selection device and the smooth sliding trolley with ball bearings mounted on the linear guide, which guarantees maximum accuracy.

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Turning Tools

Swiss-Type Machining Tools for High Production Applications

PMTS 2017: Recent additions to the line include the new six cutting edge (G6) turning insert for grooving, parting-off, and threading and polygon inserts and toolholders for external turning, grooving, parting and threading.

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Automation

Machine Tool Peripherals Optimize CNC Performance & Productivity

The company will display its “One-Stop-Shop” approach to peripherals that enable machine tools to operate at peak performance by integrating a Quick Load Servo 80 S2 all-electric, short magazine bar feeder, a Turbo MH Series filtering chip conveyor, an oil mist collector, a steady rest work support system, and a Phasep waste oil removal system with a replica turning center.

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Toolholders

Mini Clamping Nut Resists Slipping

The Rego-Fix IntRlox Mini Nut for Swiss automatic machine tool applications has an anti-slip locking design that is engineered to prevent the locking wrench from slipping off the nut during assembly and disassembly.

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Milling Tools

End Mills Enable Hexalobular Shapes

Mitsubishi Materials’ VQ-XL Series three- and four-flute end mills enable the machining of precision hexalobular (T4, T6, T8, T15, T25 and T40) shapes common to bone screws in a two-step process: drill, then helical mill.

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Cutting Tools

Small Drill Designed for Stainless Steel Cutting

With bad thermal conductivity, high ductility and long chips, stainless steel cutting is a challenge even for machining specialists.

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Cutting Tools

Boring Bars Now Available with Coolant-Through Toolholders

Scientific Cutting Tools (SCT) has expanded its SCT Advantage small-diameter indexable boring bar program with coolant-through toolholders for maximum productivity.

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Turn/Mill

Swiss-Type Lathe Accommodates 38-mm-Diameter Workpieces

Star CNC Machine Tool Corp.’s SV-38 Swiss-type lathe series accommodates workpiece diameters ranging to 38 mm (1.5").

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