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Contract Manufacturer Launches Virtual Factory Tour
Plouse Precision Manufacturing (Harrisburg, PA) one of the nation?s leading precision contract manufacturers, recently announced its extensive online virtual factory tour. This unique tool enables visitors to the company?s website to take an up-close, inside look at the state-of-the-art manufacturing…
Westfield Steel Adapts New Model For Weak Economy
Westfield Steel, Inc. (Westfield, IN) is delivering steel to its customers and providing other hauling services through Westfield Steel Express, a newly-formed, authorized-for-hire common carrier. With processing centers in Westfield and Terre Haute, IN, the service is uniquely designed to…
Detroit-Area Machine Shops Discover the Roadmap to Wind Energy
Over 50 machine shop owners and representatives recently attended the Seco Tools (Troy, MI) ?Tooling up for Wind Power Generation? conference co-sponsored by the Sterling Heights Chamber of Commerce, Automation Alley, and Oakland County Planning & Economic Development. This was…
Suppliers Combine To Offer Machine Tool Builders Full Menu Of Products And Services
Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME; Rockford, IL)) and its sister company, Hennig, Inc. (Machesney Park, IL), have joined forces on many occasions in the past, to benefit common customers. Today, that synergy has coalesced in a powerful combination of…
Precision Manufacturing Supplier Launches New Website
AFCO Precision Manufacturing (Napoleon, OH), focused on producing large, precision fabrication, machining and assembly capabilities to heavy industry, recently introduced a new website that outlines the company?s capabilities and equipment/facility capacity. The site includes details about the company?s vast resources…
Five Japanese Steelmakers to Develop Technologies to Reduce CO2 Emissions 30 Percent
In an effort to achieve a 30 percent reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions from the domestic steel industry, Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX) reports that five Japanese blast-furnace firms have joined to establish and promote the "Development of Environmental Technology…
MODULAR FIXTURING FOR 5-SIDED WELDING
Bluco Corporation (Aurora, IL) offers the Wolverine Clamp, specifically designed to fit Bluco Modular Fixturing tables and ready for production and high volumes of work.
DEDICATED FIXTURES, MODULAR WORKHOLDING REDUCE CYCLE TIMES
Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME; Rockford, IL) can design and build Amrok ready-to-use dedicated manual fixtures from the ground up for horizontal and vertical machining centers and other CNC machinery.
HYBRID CHUCK CUTS TOOL TIME IN HALF
This effective combination of centering chuck and magnetic chuck lowers tooling times by up to 50 percent. This solution was first presented by clamping technology expert Röhm GmbH (Sontheim/Brenz, Germany). The hybrid chuck MZMF is the perfect combination of 3-jaw manual chuck and round magnetic support plate. Through the combination of two technologies, workpieces of different sizes can not only be evenly and securely clamped, but also machined from three sides.
HIGH PRECISION AIR CHUCKS FOR TURNING, GRINDING AND ROTARY JOBS
MicroCentric Corp. (Plainview, NY) has a new line of high precision front actuated through hole air chucks. The FA series chucks feature a stationary air distributor ring, incorporating special profile seals and locking check valves to maintain air pressure while the chuck is rotating.
ONE CLAMPING MODULE FOR ALL WORKPIECES
The KONTEC KSC from Schunk Inc. (Morrisville, NC) is a multi-functional manual clamping system. It is easily adjusted, whether conventional clamping, very low clamping depths for 5-sided machining, molded parts, plates or workpieces with saw cut surfaces, KONTEC KSC enables an adjustment in very little time.
LOCATE AND LOCK FIXTURE PLATES AND SUBPLATES FAST
The patented Ball Lock? Mounting System from Jergens, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) is the practical quick-change system for fixturing in metalworking and metal-forming operations, for either horizontal or vertical machining centers. With the current trend toward smaller production runs, the ability to set up quickly for the next run is critical to maintaining profitability.
