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Zoller Announces its Toolroom of the Year Winner

The manufacturer of presetting, measuring devices and tool management software held its 2024 Toolroom of the Year contest for all of its customers to showcase their use of the company’s technology.

Zoller Showcases Automated Tool Measurement System, Toolholders

IMTS 2024: Zoller Inc. is showcasing a range of products for heat-shrinking, tool balancing, toolholding, smart storage and inspection, including the CoraMeasure LG automated tool measurement system.

Open House Showcases Technology Ahead of IMTS

Zoller’s open house in Ann Arbor, Michigan, provided attendees with a glimpse of the connectivity and efficiency the company’s products offer to users.

Zoller to Host Open House, Technology Days Event

The 2024 Open House and Technology Days event will highlight customers who have leveraged Zoller technology to optimize their manufacturing processes and boost profits.

Shop Reclaims 10,000 Square Feet with Inventory Management System

Intech Athens’ inventory management system, which includes vertical lift modules from Kardex Remstar and tool management software from ZOLLER, has saved the company time, space and money.

SW North America to Host Open House & Technology Day

The event — which coincides with the company’s 10-year anniversary — will take place at its North American headquarters in New Hudson, Michigan on Friday, August 25.

Zoller Automation Event Will Showcase Digital Transformation

The Automation Days event will feature presentations from customers, industry leaders and company experts on implementing optimized, connected and automated processes around the complete management of cutting tools.

Grob Systems Inc. to Host Tech Event With Industry Partners

The 5-Axis Live technology event will highlight new machining strategies for optimizing the production of complex medical, aerospace and mold/die parts.

Zoller Announces New Open House Showcasing Automation

The automation-focused event “Automate. Success.” takes place August 9 and 10 at the company’s headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Zoller Event Shines Lights on Shopfloor Connectivity

The company’s open house event highlighted smart manufacturing solutions from CAM to part.

Simulation and Tooling Secure High-Value Work

Simulation software and careful attention to tooling parameters have enabled Major Tool to take on ambitious projects with its complex machinery.

Zoller Invites Manufacturers to Fourth Annual Open House

The Open House and Technology Days event will take place May 9-11, 2023, enabling participants to network and learn from Zoller experts, customers and industry leaders.

IMTS Takeaways From the Modern Machine Shop Editorial Team

The first in-person IMTS in four years left the MMS editorial staff with a lot to digest. Here are a few of our takeaways from the show floor.

Interface Enables More Communication for Control

Zoller's zidCode 4.0 comes with new FANUC FOCAS interface.

Preparing a Shop for Automation

Ensuring a stable, predictable production process can prevent automation from multiplying existing problems.

CNC Software Incorporates Tool Management Solutions

HCL has incorporated the Zoller TMS tool management system interface into its CAMWorks software, supporting customers’ efforts to streamline tool management.

HCL CAMWorks-Zoller Combination Streamlines Tool Management

HCL CAMWorks has implemented Zoller’s Tool Management Solutions Interface, simplifying tool database management and minimizing manual tool data entry.

Meet the Automation That Makes Machine Tool Automation

A new manufacturing cell at Mazak’s North American headquarters is one part machine tool production unit and one part demonstration facility. And it’s here to provide a lesson about how automation can tackle skilled-worker shortages and supply chain issues at the same time.

Taking an Automated Aerospace Approach

A flexible manufacturing system helps an Indiana job shop run a high mix of aerospace work for long stretches of time and function more like a contract shop.

Zoller Smart Factory Solutions Promotes Consistent, Accurate Data Usage

Westec 2019: Zoller Smart Factory Solutions connects production process steps for efficiency, less scrap and to secure data transfer across facilities.

Presetting Machine Spindle Ensures Accurate Change-Over

Eastec 2019: The Zoller Venturion is made from fine components to ensure users have a reliable machine to preset and measure their tools.

Managing Cutting Tool Resources Through Shopfloor Connectivity

A manufacturer of cutting tool measuring equipment says that by using the data already available from devices such as tool presetters and vending systems, shops can easily establish an effective “smart” tool management system.

Presetting, Measuring Machine Increases Reliability

IMTS 2018: Zoller’s Venturion is a presetting and measuring machine for a range of tools.

From Universal Tool Clamping to Automated Presetting

The opening of Rego-Fix's new U.S. headquarters caps a long series of developments in precision tool clamping technology.

Automated Tool Clamping, Measurement

This system combines tool presetting with tool clamping to automatically set, measure and clamp tools.

Tool Management System Pumps up Plant-Wide Communication

Zoller’s Tool Management System helped Bosch Rexroth streamline tool design, product manufacturing and tool quality. As a result, the plant has seen a reduction in quality issues and an increase in production efficiency.

Adopting a 24/7 Mindset

This shop considered a number of factors before establishing an effective process to run an HMC cell around the clock for applications in aerospace, oilfield and other industries.

3D Measurement Machine Eliminates Need for Reference Points, Backdrops

Zoller’s 3dCheck five-axis CNC measurement machine enables fully automatic measurement and evaluation of current standard geometries of round tools.

The Automotive Industry is Booming in Germany

Before heading off to Esslingen, Germany (near Stuttgart) to help Index celebrate its 100th anniversary, my publisher told me that the area is “the Detroit of Germany.” I soon found that to be an apt description as a large number of shops I visited were heavily vested in automotive manufacturing. What’s even more noteworthy is that business was booming.

Presetting Becomes Prevalent

Next Intent implemented presetting and shrink-fit toolholding when it bought a five-axis machining center, but it has since seen these resources deliver value to machining centers throughout the shop.

Robot Increases Tool Measuring Accuracy

Zoller’s RoboSet features a six-axis articulated arm robot equipped with a force-moment strain gage and two pneumatic parallel grippers.

Minimizing Turnaround Times for Big Parts

The key to success (and the primary challenge) for any job shop is minimizing turnaround time for non-repeating work. This Indiana shop shares some of its strategies for reducing lead times for the various large-scale jobs it encounters.

Tool Presetter/Measuring Machine Handles Cutting Tools, Electrodes

Traditionally, electrodes have been measured in two different ways: either directly in the erosion machine or on a CMM.

Tool Certainty

For GKN Aerospace to overcome tool-related variations on its largest milling machines, it had to confront error sources that go unnoticed in many shops.

Thinking About Shopfloor Interoperability-And Making It Happen

The significance of “plug-and-produce” integration for machine shops and manufacturing plants becomes clear from the perspective of an ERP software developer.

Measuring And Inspection System Slashes Machine Time

This shop bought an inspection system to complement its five-axis wire EDM.

Toward More Seamless MQL

One of the small perils of a new technology is that it often involves new steps or new considerations that present special opportunities for error. Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is a technology that exemplifies this point.

Marine Supplier Meets Tricky Tolerances With Presetter And Measuring Machine

For its supercharged six-cylinder Verado outboard motor range, Mercury Marine (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) set and met multiple new tolerances. One of the trickier tooling tolerances had to do with the valve seat boring tools. The company's Mazak machining centers incorporate 15 of these long, narrow, multi-insert tools to finish machine the 24-valve seats, intake and exhaust in the one-piece aluminum cylinder head. Because valve clearances are factory-adjusted and are designed to remain within tolerance for several thousand hours, close machining tolerances are essential.

Tool Presetting Ensures Tool Quality While Saving Time

The Edon, Ohio, plant of Metaldyne (Plymouth, Michigan) produces one of the most complex parts on an automobile: the steering knuckle. Irregularly shaped with a variety of surfaces and holes to mill, drill and bore, steering knuckles provide a machining challenge that usually requires some finesse to meet.

Extreme Tool Setting

A plant performing 79,000 tool setups per year measures these tools with one presetter and two gatekeepers.

A Shop Preset For Productivity

The tool presetters at this shop are interfaced to its computerized tool inventory system as well as linked to the machine tools for direct downloading of offset data. Digital image processing at the presetters is the key.

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