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SEPTEMBER 2016 VOLUME 89, NO. 4 MMSONLINE.COM

78

FEATURES
78 Establishing a Path to Success
Our Top Shops benchmarking survey aims to cover everything
from A to Z in identifying machine shop operational excellence
and best practices. The goal is to provide shops with intelli-
gence they can use to more effectively pave a path to success.
84 BY DEREK KORN

84 Making Cents of Vertical Automation

For Vickers Engineering, part volumes and success are mea-
sured in pennies and seconds, switching from HMC cells to
VMC cells is requiring some creative thinking when it comes to
robotics, cutting tools, workholding and more. BY MATT DANFORD

92 Equipped for Composites

92 General Tool Co. has learned that in order to machine compos-
ites like carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) to tolerances as
S E P T E M B E R 2 016

CHARTING NEW DIRECTIONS

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IN THE MANUFACTURE
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In this edition, a survey of traditional gear machining processes
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benefits one shop found by upgrading its inspection technology.
Find the supplement just after page 96.
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RAPID TRAVERSE
30 Optimized Machining out of the Box
36 How to Use Google Street View to Market Your Shop
38 Integrating Additive Manufacturing without Inhibiting Machining

COMMENTARIES AND COLUMNS

18 Mark: My Word
30
20 The Z Axis
26 One-Off
44 Deciding Factors
48 Competing Ideas
52 Blackman on Taxes
70 Quality Gaging Tips
74 CNC Tech Talk
272 Gardner Business Index: Metalworking

BETTER PRODUCTION
118 Collaborative Robots Deliver Flexibility to Shop Floor
130 Grinding Machine Increases Tool Suppliers Production
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142 Five-Axis Machine Produces Medical Parts without
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INDUSTRY AND PRODUCT NEWS

12 Web Extras
14 MMS Connect
56 Shop Talk
68 Meeting Dates
158 On Display: IMTS 2016

ADVERTISERS
158
266 Business Opportunities
268 Index of Advertisers

ABOUT THE COVER

This issues cover image is a screen capture of the actual CAM program Applied
Machinings Chad Harris created to machine our revamped Top Shops logo. Turn to
Derek Korns column on page 26 to read about that process and learn about our
magazines inaugural Top Shops Conference, which will take place in the fall of 2017.

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NEXT GENERATION IN ACTION: INTERNS
WRITE FOR MODERN MACHINE SHOP
Its been a busy summer preparing for this months
International Manufacturing Technology Show
(IMTS), but Modern Machine Shop had plenty of
help. Gardner Business Media Inc., the magazines
publisher, hired more than 10 interns this summer,
most of them contributing in some capacity over
the course of their work to our myriad media
preparations for the show. Some of them were
even able to contribute their writing skills, com-
posing blog posts for MMS Online. Below is a
selection of some of their contributions to the site.
of future workers. Find it at short.mmsonline.com/
skills2.
INTERACTIVE INTERNING
Marketing Intern Madeline Kline was able to attend
Amerimold this summer for the third time. In her
article, she reflects on managing live-tweeting
for MoldMaking Technology. Find it at short.
mmsonline.com/tweet.

CROSSING THE SKILLS GAP ONE STUDENT

AT A TIME
In her blog post reporting on the manufacturing-
related competitions at the SkillsUSA conference,
Editorial Intern Katie Cattell relates her observa-
tions about how big events like this are providing
career avenues to young people. Find it at short.
mmsonline.com/skills1 and read a version of it
on page 56. After a successful summer internship with Modern
Machine Shop, Hannah Coombs has accepted an
PRINT, LIKE MANUFACTURING, IS CHANGING editorial position with one of our sister publications,
Intern (and now Managing Editor of Products Products Finishing.
F i n i s h i n g) H a n n a h C o o m b s f i n d s l e s s o n s
about the flux in manufacturing in her trip to the
magazine printing facility that churns out Modern
Machine Shop ever y month. Find it at shor t.
mmsonline.com/changing.

ITS TIME TO EDUCATE THE NEXT GENERATION

High-school Intern Max Egan reflects on SkillsUSA
and the need to change perceptions of manufac-
turing in order to really attract his own generation

MMS Extra is Modern Machine Shops

free email newsletter. To subscribe, Another summer intern, Katie Cattell, returns back
visit mmsonline.com/sub/newsletter. to school to finish her last year of college. Find both
interns contributions on mmsonline.com.

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a Cybersecurity Assurance Program (UL CAP) for industrial control
systems. It is designed to provide testable cybersecurity criteria to help
assess software vulnerabilities and weaknesses, minimize exploitation,
address known malware, review security controls and increase security
awareness. Read the full story pinned to the top of our Facebook page.

5 QUESTIONS ABOUT
AUTOMOTIVE
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Say automation, and we tend to picture
robotseven though the range of
what automation might involve includes
these devices and more. We also think
of it as replacing people. However,
productive uses of automation often
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in parallel to complement one another.

CONSIDERATIONS FOR RE-FINDING THE BEAUTY

BUYING A MACHINE TOOL
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If you missed the Machine/Shop supplement
to last months issue, then you missed an
article by Barry Rogers about key questions
to answer before researching and purchasing
a new CNC machine tool. Basically, if you're
going to IMTS with a new machine tool pur-
chase on the docket, go back and read the
story, or find it online at short.techspex.com/
newmachine.
IN CRAFTSMANSHIP
bit.ly/mmstopshops
A member of our Top Shops group reacted to
Peter Zelinskis July column The Attentiveness
Gap, saying he was guilty of popping in his ear
buds to get through the day. He remembers a
time though, when he was just learning, that he
took great pride in his craftsmanship. He asked
the group if they should all be working to get the
fire back, or if they thought it was not an issue
at all. Join the conversation at the URL above.

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information in 140 characters or less. Follow us on Twitter to read more
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MARK: MY WORD Commentary
New Titles, New Roles
Stepping up is what makes a good team great.
The editorial staff of Modern Machine Shop
has always worked hard to be a cohesive and
effective team. Like all good teams, individual
members have had dif ferent functions but a
common goal: to build and support a brand that
promotes new technology in manufacturing. And
as it is with all good teams, it is necessary to
adjust and reposition those functions to meet
changing circumstances. This is one of those
times for us to step up, so to speak.
Thats exactly what we have done, as indicated
by some changes in the titles on the staff page
of this magazine, which continues to be the anchor
of Modern Machine Shops print and online
entities. Here are the details:
MARK ALBERT
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
MALBERT@MMSONLINE.COM
Never stop finding better ways
to work together.
My new title is Editorial Director. Although I will
continue to write and prepare my usual lineup of
editorial contributions such as this column, Decid-
ing Factors, feature articles, regular blog posts
and other items for print and online, I will concen-
trate on developing editorial talent to sustain our
commitment to excellence in technical journalism.
Pete Zelinskis new title is Editor-in-Chief, the
title I am passing on. Pete, a 19-year veteran of
the MMS staff, will take on a more active role as
the face of the magazine to the metalworking
industry. He has already been representing the
MMS brand at notable events and appearances.
However, he will continue to write stellar pieces
18 MMS September 2016 mmsonline.com
for this magazine and for Additive Manufacturing,
of which he has been editor-in-chief since its
debut. Pete will also keep the MMS brand at the
forefront of reaching and serving our audience in
a world in which print, digital and social media
are all now vital to that mission.
Working closely with Pete and me continues
to be Derek Korn, who has been with MMS for
almost 13 years. His new title is Executive Editor.
In addition to producing insightful articles about
the application of technology by leading machine
shops, Derek will now focus more intently on the
operation of the MMS brand internally. He will
coordinate and oversee the work of other editors
on staff while ensuring the magazine covers the
subject matter that will enable shops to become
more efficient and effective. Dereks essential
ef for ts to grow and enhance our Top Shops
benchmarking program will also keep him engaged
with the metalworking community, especially with
the launch of the Top Shops Conference in 2017.
Finally, Emily Probst is now Managing Editor,
the title we give to the person chiefly responsible
for the smooth and timely production of print and
online content. She is arguably overdue for this
title, as she has been fulfilling this role for some
time. Emily also ably manages our blog and news-
letters, and keeps MMS active in Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube and other social media channels.
Of course, our entire editorial staff is commit-
ted to growing and evolving, whether or not
individual titles change. We never stop finding
better ways to work together. This often involves
drawing on the skills and resources of many other
departments in the company. Working as a team
is our instinctive mode, regardless of who pulls
together to tackle the task at the moment.
But no moment goes by that Im not extremely
proud to be part of this team.
THE Z AXIS Commentary

Q&A with
Cardinal Manufacturing
A Wisconsin high school manufacturing class funds itself by operating as a
business. Leaders in one Ohio county recently explored this idea.
In western Wisconsin, the Eleva-Strum publicSince then, about six other high schools, in Wis-
school district has an answer to the so-called consin and outside the state, have launched or
intend to launch similar student-run manufactur-
skills gap. In fact, this school district has one of
the most enriching answers I have seen, because ing businesses. Craig Cegielski, Cardinal Manu-
facturings founder and teacher, has advised most
its solution elevates not only students manufac-
of these, and he says he hopes one day to get to
turing skills, but also foundational skills related
to employment and professionalism. This districtsee a student-run high school manufacturing
is the location of Cardinal Manufacturing, the business in each of the 50 states.
Eleva-Strum High School manufacturing class Ohio is among the latest states to show inter-
that operates as a commercial businessoper- est. In northeast Ohio, the Medina County Economic
ates, in fact, as a job shop. The students here Development Corp. recently hosted Mr. Cegielski
earn money for the program by making machined in a closed, roundtable discussion in which local
and welded parts for other businesses. Profits educators at both the high school and college
from this work have provided for modern CNC level, as well as business leaders and a state
equipment and other advanced resources that representative, all had the chance to ask the
Wisconsin teacher sometimes blunt questions
would otherwise be inconceivable for a high school
shop class in such a small district. The same about his program.
income also provides for profit-sharing checks I had the chance to join the discussion. Each
of the 18 local leaders involved saw significant
for the students at the end of the school year (as
promise and value in this program for both students
high as about $1,500 for the student who last year
clocked the most time in the student shop). and manufacturers in the county. But many of
them also perceived obstacles to implementing
such a program that they wanted the teacher to
PETER ZELINSKI speak to. For communities that might consider
EDITORIN-CHIEF
promoting manufacturing education through a
PZELINSKI@MMSONLINE.COM
high school program like this, the exchange
The commercial work gives
brought out some of the concerns and operational
him a chance to discuss with
details. Here are questions that were put to Mr.
students the value of a
Cegielski and my summaries of his responses:
marketable trade.
Q: Where did the initial capital come from
to begin this program?
Modern Machine Shop has covered Cardinal Mr. Cegielski responds, essentially, What
Manufacturing various times. The schools model capital? School leaders and administrators sup-
is still the same as when we detailed it in an ported him in this plan to reinvigorate the schools
article several years ago (see gbm.media/card). manufacturing program, but they could not afford

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a large up-front investment in an uncertain idea.
Thus, the program was launched in 2005 with an
initial budget of $3,000.
At that time, the shop class had only old equip-
ment. The business began with the students doing
what commercial work they could on these
machinesgenerally low-tolerance repair work
for local companies, including local farmerswith
profits reinvested into the shop. Student projects
in those early days also served the needs of the
shop. For example, students built welding bays
and workbenches that later classes of students
continue to use.
The shop has continued to grow and improve
in this way, but the teacher says progress has not
been as slow as one might imagine. Along with
equipment being purchased, some has also been
donated by businesses seeing the shops success
and wanting to encourage it. A local machine
shop, MRS Machining, has been generous in
donating machinery, for example. And among the
shops newest equipment is two Haas CNC ver-
tical machining centers. One of these was pur-
chased outright by Cardinal Manufacturing and
one was donated by the machine tool builder.
Q: What were the early conversations like
with local businesses?
During the summer before the program launched,
Mr. Cegielski devoted a week to doing nothing
except visiting every local industrial business he
could to explain what he planned to do. He did
not ask for donations in these meetings; he asked
for work. Some initial orders to the student-run
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Students learn CNC
machining by running real
jobs for real customers.
The high school program
formerly had old and
imprecise equipment,
but operating as a
commercial job shop
has enabled it to afford
more modern machines.
Teacher Craig Cegielski,
the programs founder
and teacher, is seen
below. Photography by
Creative Technology Corp.
business came out of those conversations. Stu-
dents successful delivery of those orders led to
more work, and more customers by word of mouth.
The high school company has not lacked for work
since then, and Mr. Cegielski has not had to do
any cold-calling since that one summer week.
Q: Are there liability implications of stu-
dents doing commercial work?
Some of Cardinal Manufacturings work is
repair, including one noteworthy job that involved
significant remanufacturing related to a piece of
agricultural equipment. One roundtable participant
therefore asked about liability. What if the reman-
ufactured component later fails in a way that
causes injury or damage?
Mr. Cegielski says the superintendent and other
leaders of the Eleva-Strum district took care to
have the districts insurance company review their
plans to launch the Cardinal Manufacturing pro-
gram. They obtained the assurance that the
districts coverage does address a circumstance
like the one described above.
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Similarly, the possibility of a student being
injured while doing commercial work at the school
(which hopefully never occurs) is covered by
insurance as well. Though the students here
happen to be using the school equipment to make
useful parts for customers rather than traditional
shop-class assignments, the work is equally risky
in either case, and it looks the same from the
insurance companys perspective.
Q: Eleva-Strum High School is small. How
could this idea work in a large school?
Eleva-Strums most recent graduating class
had 43 students. As an indicator of how popular
manufacturing has become, 18 of those former
seniors were in Cardinal Manufacturing. (Whereas
the shop class a decade or so ago attracted more
like six.) For the effectiveness of this program as
a functioning business, Mr. Cegielski has to limit
the classs size, yet in such a small school, even
being selective still lets him admit a large share
of total students. How could such a program work
in a school that is much larger?
Mr. Cegielski says the crucial element of this
model is student-run business. In a large school,
the answer would be to extend that model beyond
manufacturing. Yes, there certainly would be too
many interested students if manufacturing was
the only student-run business, so the key to scal-
ing up would be to add more. What about a
student-run nursery in the school greenhouse?
Or a student-run auto repair shop or caterer?
Q: Who receives the money and cuts the
checks? Does the student-run business have
its own finances?
Yes and no, Mr. Cegielski says. Customers
make payments to the school district; the district
maintains funds and disburses them on Cardinal
Manufacturings behalf. Financially, the business
functions like a student club. The shop has recently
been given the use of a credit card, a change that
has made this arrangement much more seamless.
Q: Is there enough work to go around? Is
there a danger of the student-run business
competing against local businesses?
There is plenty of work, the teacher says. Local
manufacturers often send Cardinal the short-run,
low-tolerance work they dont want to bother
witha win for both parties.
In addition, Cardinals low prices actually create
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work. The low hourly rate it charges for student
labor means it frequently obtains the chance to
perform repairs on components that the owner
otherwise would discard.
Q : W h a t d o e s t h e i n s t r u c t o r s d a y
look like?
Only half-jokingly, Mr. Cegielski says his role
with Cardinal Manufacturing is to stand around
and do nothing. He trains students in how to
perform every aspect of the business, including
not just programming and running jobs, but also
scheduling and billing, in the hope that they actu-
ally can per form ever y aspectleaving him
to supervise.
But Cardinal Manufacturing as a class officially
occupies only two periods of an eight-period day.
He teaches other classes during other periods.
Cardinal Manufacturing students meanwhile often
spend study hall periods continuing their work in
the shop. The teachers classroom includes large
windows into the shop so he can see this activity.
Q : W hat has you r t ime wit h Ca r d inal
Manufacturing taught you?
Im teaching soft skills, says Mr. Cegielski.
That is a far bigger and more significant part of
what he is imparting to students than he could
have appreciated when he began this program.
Over time, he has adapted his plan for the class
to emphasize this instruction, which starts on the
first day of school each year. On day one, I teach
everyone how to shake hands, he says.
Similarly, whenever a customer visits to pick
up a finished job, he turns this into an opportunity
to practice professionalism and customer service.
He has the students plan: Who will greet the
customer and give him his parts? Who will help
load them? Who will have the invoice ready? Who
will thank him for his business?
There is also financial counseling, he says. The
involvement in commercial work gives him a
chance to discuss with students how valuable it
is to possess a marketable trade, in the context
of how much it costs to live as an adult and how
much they should therefore be aiming to earn.
Every different year delivers a different group
of kids. The mix of what they need from him varies.
But in some years, he says, developing soft skills
accounted for 25 percent of what we spent our
time on.
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The Story of a Top Shops
Workpiece, Conference
Our Top Shops benchmarking program will be represented in big ways in our IMTS
booth. Its there where well make a big announcement about the program, too.
It was time. Given that our magazines annual
Top Shops benchmarking survey is on its sixth
year, the time was right to freshen its logo, which
we did a couple months ago.
That said, we didnt want to simply revamp it.
We also wanted to find a shop to machine it once
the design was finalized. Being that contract shop
Applied Engineering, located in Yankton, South
Dakota, was last years Top Shops Honors Program
winner in the machining technology category, it
made sense to first approach those folks to see if
theyd be willing to take on that job.
DEREK KORN
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
DKORN@MMSONLINE.COM
Email me as to what you might
like the Top Shops Conference
to cover.
Thankfully, but not unexpectedly, shop projects
manager Brad Bohnet agreed to help us with this,
putting programmer Chad Harris in charge of the
endeavor. After our magazines creative director,
Jeff Norgord, and art director, Heather McClain
Francis, completed the new 2D logo design in
Adobe Illustrator, Heather exported a .dxf (drawing
interchange format) file to simplify the creation of
a 3D CAD model.
I sent Chad the .dxf file on Tuesday, July 5, so
he could start building the model. Less than 24
hours later, he sent me screen captures of what
he had created based on his perception of what
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the machined 3D logo might look like, adding depth
and dimension to various individual elements, such
as the Modern Machine Shop logo and the banner
that wraps around the shield. What you see on this
months cover, underneath all the toolpath imagery,
is what he designed.
Knowing this workpiece cut from aluminum
plate was roughly 2 feet tall and nearly 2 feet wide,
we wanted to have an idea as to how much it would
weigh so we could consider options for mounting
it. After CAM programming, including the removal
of a good deal of material from the back side of the
par t to lighten it, Chad used SolidWorks to
approximate the final weight at just a little more
than 45 pounds.
As you see on the following page, the machined
logo looks fantastic, and well certainly get our use
out of it moving forward. For one, itll be on display
in our IMTS Booth W-10 located at the entrance to
the West Hall as part of the Top Shops Event, a
collaborative display presented by Gardner Busi-
ness Media (publisher of this magazine) and the
sponsors of IMTS. The goals of this event are to
highlight the types of new machining technologies,
shopfloor practices and business strategies that
leading shops are applying; look at some disruptive
technologies that might impact manufacturing in
the future; and enable shops to benchmark them-
selves against other successful U.S. operations.
However, theres another way well get use out
of the new logo. Next fall, Modern Machine Shop
is holding its inaugural Top Shops Conference,
which, moving forward, will be held each non-IMTS
year. We dont want this conference simply to focus
on uber-conceptual, sounds-good-on-paper
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bleeding-edge concepts. Instead,

we want to offer presentations about
very advanced yet practical tactics,
processes, machining approaches
and so on that people could readily
apply once back at their shops. This
might include leveraging additive
manufacturing in a shop setting,
machine tool monitoring and data
collection, cutting tool management,
and best practices in areas such as
business strategies, work force
development and human resources.
Just like we hope you feel that
Modern Machine Shop is your Shown left to right are Applied Engineerings Rory Hamilton (operator
magazine, we want you to feel that who machined the logo), Brad Bohnet (shop projects manager) and
the Top Shops Conference is your Chad Harris (CAM programmer for the logo).
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Optimized Machining
out of the Box
Four tooling-related companies partner to supply dynamically stable milling for
improved productivity on existing machine tools. Users do not have to mea-
sure the dynamics of their machines. Instead, tooling tailored to the machine
arrives as a complete assembly, along with software for quickly determining the
parameters that tooling can be used to achieve.

BY PETER ZELINSKI

enhancement that hardly any shop is using.

E very milling process has a spindle speed, or
a set of spindle speeds, at which it inherently
wants to cut. Run at one of these particular speeds
(the sweet spot, if you will), and chatter quiets
down. Heavier cuts are possible. Higher tool life
is achieved. Particularly above 10,000 rpm, the
chance for enhanced cutting performance at
these dynamically stable spindle speeds can be
pronounced. Finding and running at these speeds
is perhaps the most accessible productivity
Why are dynamically stable milling speeds not
more widely used? The corresponding organiza-
tional complexity is part of the reason. Those
seemingly magical spindle rpm values are differ-
ent for every different combination of machine,
toolholder, cutting tool and tool overhang length.
Finding the right speed for one combination is
not difficulta measurement using commercially
available frequency-analysis equipment can

Spindle speeds
corresponding to the
frequency response of
a given machine-and-
tooling combination permit
heavier, smoother, more
productive milling. The
Smart Tool system consists
of a tool/toolholder assem-
bly that is optimized to the
dynamics of a particular
machining center, so that
the milling cutter within
that system can be used as
effectively as possible in
that machine.

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RAPID TRAVERSE Machining Technology in Brief
determine it in minutes. (Involving a tap with a
small hammer, this measurement is commonly
called a tap test.) However, the shop that is
intent on using stable speeds has to determine
this ideal speed for every combination of machine,
tooling and stick-out length that it wants to opti-
mize. It also has to apply the discipline to ensure
that tools and toolholders are always assembled
the same way and assigned to the correct
machines, and that the machining cycles always
BlueSwarf, call 888-811-3260
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Briney Tooling Systems, call 800-752-8035
or visit brineytooling.com.
Fullerton Tool Co., call 855-722-7243
or visit fullertontool.com.
Okuma, call 704-588-7000
or visit okuma.com/americas.
Velocity Products (main contact for Smart Tool),
call 256-258-5549 or visit velocityproducts.
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Toolholder, tool and retention knob are initially
shipped as an assembled, pre-balanced unit. Place-
ment of a custom setscrew slot in the tool ensures
proper overhang length for dynamic optimization.
use the correct spindle speed for each machine-
and-tooling combination. All in all, this is more
preparation than most shops are willing to make,
and it is more process control than they are able
to realize.
It would be better if there was simply a way to
purchase the productivity enhancement. Yet the
hope of delivering dynamically stable speeds that
easily has proven elusive. Since the speeds are
dependent on individual machine and tooling
choices, there has never seemed to be a way to
provide those speeds as an out-of-the-box prod-
uct. The company BlueSwarf, for example, has
wrestled with this. This firm provides a software
interfaceits Tool Dashboardthat makes use
of machining stability signatures by allowing
users to quickly find the most productive param-
eters for a given machine-and-tool system in a
given workpiece material. Yet BlueSwarf still
requires its users to have performed a tap test,
or to have something equivalent to tap-test data
for the machining system.
But now, thanks to a partnership involving
other tooling-related companiesand thanks to
a busine ss model that they are pione e ring
togetherthe prospect of simply purchasing an
optimize d proc e s s has come much ne a re r
to reality.
The companies include BlueSwarf, along with
Briney Tooling Systems, Fullerton Tool Co., and
the Morris Group business unit Velocity Products.
The product they have introduced together is the
Smart Tool system now supplied by Velocity.
The system works this way: For any machining
center from Okuma (more on that requirement
later), Velocity will provide a complete tooling
assembly that is optimized for high-productivity
milling on that machine. The assembly consists
of a Briney toolholder tailored to that machines
dynamics, as well as the users choice of Fullerton
end mill and a custom tool overhang length selected
to optimize the dynamic resonance of this overall
machine-and-tooling combination. This assembly
(with retention knob) is balanced as a unit and
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sent in a package that also includes a BlueSwarf
Tool Dashboard tailored to that assembly, allow-
ing the user to quickly determine the optimum
combination of spindle speed and depth of cut
in various applications. The result is optimized
milling out of the box, without users having to
perform any of their own frequency measurements,
and without the user having to implement much
in the way of new process disciplines or controls.
The extent of performance improvement will
vary, but the Smart Tool group says a doubling
of productivity from heavier depths of cut and
doubled tool life from smoother cutting are rea-
sonable outcomes compared to the non-optimal
milling conditions at which many shops typically
run. To be sure, slight process controls are needed
to achieve and maintain these results. Toolhold-
ers optimized for a particular machine need to
stay with that machine, though they can be used
with any of the Smart Tool assemblies that might
have been purchased for different end mills on
that machine. Also, the end mills need to be re-
ordered through Velocitywhich obtains them
from Fullertonin part because these companies
will ensure that the correct overhang length is
maintained. In this system, the overhang is con-
trolled by the placement of a patent-pending
custom setscrew slot in the shank of the tool. The
customer order number for any individual Smart
Tool assembly cues Velocity and Fullerton to the
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By predicting the effect
of different cutting
parameters without any
need for test cuts, the
Tool Dashboard enables
users of a Smart Tool
assembly to quickly find
the combination of
cutting parameters
delivering optimal
performance with that
particular assembly.
accurate placement of the slot for that particular
customers tooling.
The Smart Tool system is only available for
Okuma machines. Velocity supplies tooling and
accessories for Okuma equipment, but other
factors led to the focus on this builder as well.
Research done by Tony Schmitz and Scott Smith
of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(near Okumas U.S. headquarters) enabled this
system, because it led the way for combining
tool and machine frequency responses
mathematically rather than measuring ever y
combination. And BlueSwarf, as a member of
Okumas Par tners in THINC network, had
suf ficient access to the companys machine
to ols to b e a ble to p e r for m the ne c e s s a r y
me asure me nt of their dy namic prope r tie s.
(Meanwhile, perhaps fittingly, all Briney toolhold-
ers happen to be made on Okuma machines.)
One other point Velocity and the other Smart
Tool companies take care to point out is this: The
system is entirely U.S.-made. In other words, for
companies favoring domestic manufacturing, the
system is optimized in this way as well. Fullerton
and Br iney both do the ir manufactur ing in
Michigan, and BlueSwarf is also a U.S. firm. In
this case, therefore, the claim that the best tool
for the job is made in America is an assertion that
can be suppor ted with the physics and the
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RAPID TRAVERSE Machining Technology in Brief
How to Use Google Street View
to Market Your Shop
BY EMILY PROBST
H ow do you let potential customers see your
machines and manufacturing capabilities
when they cant spend the time and money to
leave work and fly across the country to visit your
facility? Gilman Precision of Grafton, Wisconsin,
is taking an unusual approach to showcasing its
capabilities: offering a virtual tour using Google
Street View, a web service that provides 360-
degree views of specific locations. In this instance,
the location is Gilmans facility.
Google Street View wasnt Gilmans first attempt
at a virtual tour. YouTube videos ultimately fell
short of expectations because they didnt allow
visitors to stop and stare at things that piqued
their interest. So after the Milwaukee Chamber
of Commerce sent out information on using Google
Street View to tour restaurants, bars and other
locations, Gilman reached out to Google to see
if the company would consider a street view of a
manufacturing facility.
To start the process, Gilman got bids from
someGoogle-cer tified photographersin the
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area. (A searchable list of Google-cer tified
photographers can be found at short.mmsonline.
com/streetview.) According to Douglas Biggs,
Gilman vice president of sales and marketing,
prices depend on the size of a facility and how
many photos would be necessary to cover it.
Gilman paid about $2,000 for photos of its 70,000
square-foot-facility.
Once the company chose a photographer, the
rest of the process took little involvement from
Gilman, Mr. Biggs says. The photographer used
a digital camera with a seamless 360-degree-view
lens on a tripod to capture images around the
shop. Every 5 feet, he would stop and take photos
in each direction before moving on. The whole
photo shoot took about two hours to complete.
Afterwards, the photographer loaded the tour
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online to Google. From start to finish, creating the
virtual tour took about two weeks. The tour is
accessible at the bottom of Gilmans website at
gilmanprecision.com and on Google Maps.
Having gone through this process, Mr. Biggs
has some tips for other shops considering a
Google Street View photo shoot:
Consider the lighting.Be sure the shop is
brightly lit. A dark shop does not give an overall
good impression.
Clean up. A tidy shop indicates good work
habits, attention to detail and proper maintenance.
While he considers it a home-field advantage
to always have a clean shop, Mr. Biggs suggests
going through and making sure to clean out
junk drawers, so to speak. Like inviting guests
over to your house, you want to put your best
face forward.
Take another look.Take several people
through the shop beforehand, looking for customer-
sensitive parts and logos that you would not want
in photos. Gilman used to be part of SFK until it
set out on its own about five years ago. Still, there
were some old calendars and displays that needed
to be removed before the photo shoot.
According to Mr. Biggs, walking through the
Integrating Additive Manufacturing
without Inhibiting Machining
BY PETER ZELINSKI
M itsui Seiki is a machine tool builder that aims
to excel in the area of precision. It provides
machines, often custom-engineered, to meet
machining challenges related to high-value parts
with particularly demanding tolerances. Therefore,
the companys introduction of additive manufac-
turing as a capability it can now deliver might
seem like an odd fit. Additive manufacturing
building up parts or features through a controlled
process of adding material in layerscannot by
itself achieve anything like the fine tolerances that
machining can.
But Robb Hudson, technology and business
development manager for the company, says
38 MMS September 2016 mmsonline.com
facility so slowly and deliberately was an eye-
opening experience. Ive never walked my floor
and examined it to that extent, he says. Its a
completely different way of looking at your shop.
In fact, it sparked some ideas for the future. I
now know that if we need a new machine down
the road, we can do it by moving a certain machine
to another location.
Aftera little more than a week,Google Street
View was already making a difference in Gilmans
marketing efforts, Mr. Biggs reports. The com-
pany promoted the virtual tour through an email
blast and saw significant growth in its open rate
for that particular mailing. Moreover, the shop
has received feedback from customers who
didnt realize it had certain capabilities before
viewing the tour. Business oppor tunities are
already in the works, Mr. Biggs says.
Another benefit is the ability to check Google
A naly tics to see where people are clicking
next on the companys website after taking the
tour. Do they want more information on the
companys spindles, or do they perhaps want
to know about a different topic? Using this infor-
mation, Gilman can better prepare its future
marketing content.
additive manufacturing is an addition to machin-
ing that brings both design freedom and process
efficiency to complement machinings precision.
And by consolidating more of a parts processing
into a single machine, it potentially reduces part
handling, which facilitates precision as well. During
the past year or more that the company has been
preparing to come to market with additive capa-
bility, he says, it has been experimenting with how
to use metal cutting and metal deposition effec-
tively within the same machine tool, without having
to compromise the effectiveness or promise of
either capability.
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A hybrid additive/subtractive version of this machin-
ing center is now available as a standard product, but
the company says essentially any of its machines can
now be made available as hybrids.
companys machines can now be made available
as a hybrid system, capable of both additive and
subtractive operations. A hybrid model of the
companys Vertex five-axis machining center will
now be a standard product. The additive capabil-
ity comes from the companys partnership with
Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies, a firm jointly
based in Texas and the UK that offers a system
for integrating additive manufacturing capability
into an existing machine tool. The Hybrid Manu-
facturing head performs metal additive manufac-
turing through laser cladding, feeding metal
powder into a pool that is melted by a laser. The
head mounts in the machines spindle using a
toolholder, and when it is not in use, it waits in the
machines carousel alongside other tools.
Yet integrating additive capability into the
machine is not as simple as adding this head. The
machine itself is also modified for safe use of the
laser, as well as to enable powder flow. And if the
full machining capabilities are to remain available,
then new processing techniques along with other
machine modifications are in order, too.
For example, what about coolant? Generally,
coolant and lasers dont mix, Mr. Hudson observes.
But as part of the testing of additive/subtractive
processing at Mitsui Seikis headquarters in Japan,
the company has refined a process for using flood
coolant extensively within a cycle that also includes
additive layering. In this process, an air blow-off
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operation removes much of the volume of coolant
still clinging to the part, followed by the laser
applied at a wide focus to evaporate the rest. The
surface dried in this way is ready for a new feature
to be grown onto it through laser cladding.
A similarly important consideration is protec-
tion of the machine. Because some metal powder
invariably escapes, preserving the machining
precision demands ensuring that the powder does
not affect sensitive mechanical systems such as
the ballscrews and ways. Here, the company was
able to draw on extensive prior experience, Mr.
Hudson says. Guarding and other kinematic
protections the company has engineered for
machining centers used in precision graphite
milling have been adapted to protect the machine
against metal powder.
The reward for all of this development will be
the opportunity to deliver much more manufactur-
ing capability within a single cycle and bring much
more of a parts production into a single machine.
CNC machining is the solution for tight precision,
while additive manufacturing is potentially the
solution where a high level of geometric complex-
ity is needed. Those two benefits need not be
separatea part that includes geometrically
challenging features is now also a part that can
be machined to tight tolerances, without any
handling or travel needed to transition between
those objectives.
Indeed, that promise is particularly beneficial
to manufacturers in the aerospace industry, Mr.
Hudson says. A large portion of the machine tool
builders customers are in this sector. Their aim
is often the buy-to-fly ratio, or how much material
RAPID TRAVERSE Machining Technology in Brief

they have to purchase versus how much is left
once all of the parts machining is done, he says.
Buy-to-fly ratios are often high to machine elab-
orate aircraft components out of solid billet or
even out of forgings, meaning material waste is
high. But hybrid manufacturing offers a solution
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here as well. That is, instead of an oversize work-
piece going into the machine to get much of its
material cut away, what if a workpiece that was
actually incomplete went into the machine instead?
For material efficiency, some of this parts features
would still be produced through machining, while
other featuresnarrow fins and other projections,
for examplecould instead be produced cost-
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Cybersecurity Assurance
U L, a global safety science organization, has
announced what it calls a Cybersecurity
Assurance Program (UL CAP) for industrial control
systems, designed to provide testable cyberse-
curity criteria to help assess software vulnerabil-
ities and weaknesses, minimize exploitation,
address known malware, review security controls
and increase security awareness. UL CAP is
intended for control system manufacturers who
need support in assessing security risks while
they continue to focus on product innovation to
help build safer, more secure products. These
steps will help protect the Industrial Internet of
Things. The program should benefit OEMs, machine
tool builders, system integrators and retrofitters
who want to mitigate risks by sourcing products
assessed by an expert third party.
Network-connected products and systems
offer capabilities that promise significant boosts
in productivity to manufacturing companies.
Industrial control systems, for example, are becom-
ing more interconnected, connectable and net-
workable, thus making data-driven manufacturing
a practical reality on the factory floor. However,
there are growing risks that threaten the security,
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performance and financial return on these control
systems and the equipment they run.
Were aiming to support and underpin the
innovative, rapidly iterating technologies that make
up the Industrial Internet of Things with a security
program, says Rachna Stegall, director of con-
nected technologies at UL. The more industrial
control systems become interconnected with
other devices, the greater the potential security
risks. The Cybersecurity Assurance Programs
purpose is to help manufacturers, purchasers
and end users mitigate those risks via methodical
risk assessments and evaluations.
Developers of UL CAP solicited input from
major stakeholders representing the federal gov-
ernment, academia and industry to elevate the
security measures deployed by companies, and
agencies who may have equipment and devices
connected to digital networks. For example,
automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, along with
the many job shops and manufacturing subcon-
tractors that support them, make up a critical
supply chain that must have cybersecurity mea-
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control systems within these supply chains.
The urgency of this issue was addressed by
the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP),
which was released by the White House last
February. The CNAP is designed to enhance
cybersecurity capabilities within the U.S. govern-
ment and across the country. ULs CAP program
was recognized within the CNAP as a way to test
and certify network-connectable devices.
ULs evaluation of industrial control system
security uses UL 2900-2-2, which is within the
UL 2900 series of standards. This series outlines
technical criteria for testing and evaluating the
security of products and systems that are network-
connectable. These standards form a basic set
of requirements to measure, and then improve,
the fitness of products and systems from a network
security standpoint. UL 2900 is designed to
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incorporate additional technical criteria as the
security needs in the marketplace evolve.
UL CAP can help vendors identify security risks
in their products and systems, and it suggests
methods for mitigating those risks. The UL 2900-
2-2 standard can be applied to industrial control
system components such as:
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
Remote network terminals
Human-machine interfaces (HMIs)
Input/output (I/O) servers
Machine tool control units
Intelligent devices such as sensors
Fieldbus connections
Industrial control systems that meet the require-
ments outlined in the standard can then be certi-
fied by UL as UL 2900-2-2 compliant. Addition-
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OEE: The Gift That Keeps
on Giving
Combining key data can paint a better picture of what is happening in a shop
and help it make decisions that will yield the greatest long-term benefits.
Overall equipment effectiveness, or OEE, is a
metric that accurately conveys how well machines
of all types are performing. More and more com-
panies are finding OEE to be a key component in
their continuous improvement initiatives.
As with any metric, OEE involves collecting
dataspecifically, data pertaining to equipment
availability, performance efficiency and rate of
quality. The meaning of these three OEE catego-
ries is described here:
Equipment availability is the amount of
time a machine is available to produce parts
when needed. This would be the time remaining
after machine breakdown and setup times are
removed. For example, if during an eight-hour
shift a machine experienced breakdowns for one
hour, and another two hours were spent setting
up jobs, machine availability would be five hours.
Expressed as a percent of available time, equip-
ment availability would be 63 percent (five hours
divided by eight hours).
Performance efficiency is the percentage
of time that a machine is running at planned
speed. Factors that affect planned speed are
speed reductions (that are usually related to the
part being run) and minor machine stoppages
(such as tool changes, material loading or an
operator being called away for a short interval).
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In the previous example, if during the five hours
that the machine is available to produce parts,
it produces the required number of parts within
four hours, performance efficiency would be 80
percent (four hours divided by five hours).
Rate of quality is the percentage of time
the machine is producing good parts. The time
spent producing defective parts is deducted
from the machines run time. Following our
example, if 10 percent of the parts the machine
produced during the four hours of productive
run time were defective, the rate of quality would
be 90 percent.
Using the numbers in this example, multiply-
ing the percentages of equipment availability,
performance efficiency and rate of quality would
yield an OEE of 45 percent (63 percent multiplied
by 80 percent multiplied by 90 percent). This
means that the machine is running par ts of
acceptable quality at planned speed only 45
percent of the time, or approximately 3 1/2 hours
in an eight-hour shift.
Interestingly enough, many companies already
collect this data, but do not combine it to calcu-
late OEE. Equipment availability, performance
efficiency and rate of quality may even be reviewed
and evaluated by different departments inde-
pendently. Maintenance may capture machine
downtime and track this as part of a daily, weekly
or monthly metric. Manufacturing may capture
per formance ef ficiency in terms of whether
machines produced the number of parts they
were supposed to in a given period. Finally, qual-
ity control may collect data on defective parts
produced and track it as part of a plant-wide
yield rate. Unfortunately, all of this information
COMPETING IDEAS Columnist
treated individually may not present a clear
picture of how a machine is really performing.
OEE ties all of this information together and
can help a company make better decisions. One
company recently set out to use OEE as the pre-
ferred metric for its key machines. Like many
companies, it recorded lots of data, but in a rather
disjointed manner. The companys main focus
had always been machine efficiency, and machines
were ranked by the number of parts they produced
per hour, when they were running. When the
management team looked at machine performance
from an OEE perspective, there were some sur-
prises. For example, one machine, lets call it the
fast machine had a strong record of producing
a high number of parts per hour and was consid-
ered 95-percent efficient. Another machine that
did the same type of work, lets call it the slow
machine, could not produce parts at the same
rate and was rated as 80-percent efficient. On
the other hand, the fast machine had long setups
and experienced frequent breakdowns, resulting
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in equipment availability of only four hours per
shift, or 50 percent. The slow machine could be
changed-over much faster and rarely experienced
any breakdowns, so it had an equipment avail-
ability rating of 85 percent. Finally, good parts
were produced on the fast machine 93 percent
of the time, while the slow machine produced
good parts 99 percent of the time. In the end, the
fast machines OEE was calculated to be 44
percent (95 percent multiplied by 50 percent
multiplied by 93 percent), while the slow machines
OEE was a much higher 67 percent (80 percent
multiplied by 85 percent multiplied by 99 percent).
To put this in perspective, over an eight-hour shift,
the slow machine was producing good quality
parts at planned speed almost two hours longer
than the fast machine.
Focusing on OEE, rather than individual cat-
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better picture of what is happening with your
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Succession Plan Solutions
With the right plan, you can ensure that the business you worked so hard to
build will live on even after you retire.
If you own or run a family business, and you
want that business to continue after your leader-
ship ends, you need a succession plan. Although
succession planning does not have a one-size-
fits all solution, if you are like Joe, who owns 100
percent of Success Co. and would like it live on
after he retires, you have three basic options for
what to do with your business: transfer it to one
or more family members, one or more key employ-
ees, or some third party.
The following four family situations come up
often in practice:
1. The owner either has no children, or none
of his children want to or are capable of running
the company af ter his depar ture. Of course,
perhaps one of them could still own all or part
of the company, if a professional manager actu-
ally ran its day-to-day operations. This is rarely
done, however. Instead, this situation prompts
the second and third transfer options above.
2. The owner has only one child, who already
works for the company and is capable of running
it. This may be the most clear-cut scenario. The
only question is how to transfer ownership to
that child in the most tax-effective manner.
3. Two or more of the owners children are
invo l ve d in th e bu s in e s s. In most of th e se
cases, the owner wants each of the children
to own an equal number of shares of the busi-
n e s s. T his c re ate s a pro bl e m, howeve r, in
that there must be a clear leader (with voting
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control) to make final business decisions.
Heres how we typically solve this problem
when it arises: We create voting stock (say 100
shares) and non-voting stock (say 10,000 shares).
This is a tax-free transaction. The owner of the
company keeps the voting stock and control of
the company, while the non-voting stock is divid-
ing evenly among the children. When the owner
dies, 51 shares of the voting stock, and control
of the company, goes to the child who has been
identified as the clear leader. That childs non-
voting shares are then reduced by the exact
number of extra voting shares he receives.
4. At least one of the owners children works for
the business and is capable of taking over, but the
owner also has one or more other children who
are not involved in the company. This is a common
scenario, and it is also problematic. Typically, the
owner will want stock in the company to go only
to the children involved in the business, while those
who are not involved in the business get other
assets that he owns. Of course, often there are not
enough other assets to meet the usual goal of
treating each child equally. Purchasing second-
to-die life insurance can make up the difference.
THE TAX PROBLEMS
The tax costs associated with using the wrong
succession plan can produce a never-ending,
expensive nightmare.
Say Joe sells Success Co. to his only child,
Sam, for $1 million. Assume the tax rates are 40
percent for income taxes (35 percent federal and
5 percent state) and 40 percent for estate taxes.
Joes tax basis for Success Co. is zero. To pay
his dad that $1 million and cover the $670,000
in income taxes, Sam must earn $1.67 million.
And Joe will have to pay a capital gains tax of
$200,000, leaving him with only $800,000 for
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the company. Then, when Joe dies, another 40
percent of that $800,000 ($320,000) will go to the
estate tax monster.
Yes, its expensive to do succession planning
the wrong way.
THE RIGHT WAY
The right succession plan is actually a two-step
process:
Step 1. Recapitalize the business so that there
are 100 shares of voting stock (which the owner
keeps in order to maintain control of the company)
and 10,000 shares of non-voting stock. The non-
voting stock is entitled to discounts to its value of
40 percent for tax purposes. In the case of Success
Co., valued at $1 million, this means its value for
tax purposes is only $600,000.
Step 2. Sell the non-voting stock to an inten-
tionally defective trust (IDT) for $600,000, which
will be paid to the owner, in full, with an interest-
bearing note. An IDT is the same as any other
irrevocable trust except that it is not recognized
for income tax purposes. As a result, every penny
that the owner receives until the note is paid off is
tax freeno capital gains tax and no income tax
on the interest income. The companys cash flow
is used to pay off the note, plus interest.
In the case of Success Co., Sam is named the
beneficiary of the IDT, so when the note is paid off,
the trustee will distribute the non-voting shares to
him, but Joe will still own the voting stock and
control the company for the rest of his life.
Can the IDT strategy be used to transfer a
company to one or more of its employees? Of
course it can, but typically the sale price will be
the full value of the non-voting stock (before dis-
counts), and the owner will keep the voting stock
until he is paid in full. An IDT also can be used by
a stockholder to buy out other stockholders.
This article does not cover every possible use
of an IDT in succession planning, nor does it
describe every nuance, tax trap or exception. It
does offer the family business owner a starting
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SKILLSUSA HOLDS
MANUFACTURING-RELATED
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Frances didnt think he would make it to the
SkillsUSA championships.
The competition was really tough, he said.
There was someone that I thought was better
than me because she was faster.
Frances is one of more than 6,000 high school
and college students who took part in the com-
petitions that SkillsUSA hosted June 20-24 in
its efforts to prepare the next generation of Amer-
icas skilled work force and overcome what
many see as a growing skills gap. This years
national championships took place in Louisville,
Kentucky, at the Kentucky Exposition Center and
Crowne Plaza.
Formerly known as the Vocational Industrial
Clubs of America (VICA), SkillsUSA is a nationwide
organization that trains public high school and
college/postsecondary students who are enrolled
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in career and technical education programs to
become skilled workers in their fields. Since its
founding in 1965, the organization has served
12.2 million members. As part of its mission to
prepare students for entry into the skilled work-
force, SkillsUSA hosts a variety of local, state and
national competitions where students can show-
case their skills and compete for awards. To make
it to the national competition in Louisville this year,
each competitor first had to earn a gold medal in
their state.
I attended the final competition day of the 2016
SkillsUSA national championships, which alto-
gether holds more than 100 contests in leadership
and hands-on occupational skills, including some
related to machining. As I traversed the exposition
center, taking in a variety of competitions ranging
from video game design to CNC programming,
the level of talent and dedication it takes to make
it to the national-level championships quickly
became apparent.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
(STEM) programs are a well-established focus of
SkillsUSA, as evidenced by the variety of com-
petitions as well as by support the industry offers.
(One judge we spoke to told us that in the past
three years, eight students had been hired straight
off of the competition floor by big-name compa-
nies like Toyota and Nissan.) I observed a variety
of manufacturing-related competitions, including
additive manufacturing, CNC milling and turning,
Meet Frances, a 19-year-old student from the Joseph
M. Barry Career & Technical Educational Center in
Westbury, New York. Francis competed in the Indus-
trial Motor Control contest at the 2016 SkillsUSA
national-level championships.
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and robotics and automation technology, to name
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Each of these competitions required special-
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Mandelli Sistemi SpA
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Mulazzi, a mechanical
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young mechanical engi-
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2016-17 academic year.
Upon graduation, the
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(Pewaukee, Wisconsin) has promoted Michael
Huggett to company president. Since starting at
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already made a significant impact. Mr. Huggetts
expanded role gives him oversight of sales, market
expansion, marketing, machine development and
business strategy.
Mr. Huggett has over 23 years of manufactur-
ing sales and marketing experience. He has lead
and managed a variety of machine tool sales and
marketing companies such as Hwacheon, Index,
DMG MORI and Hurco.
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or visit samsungmachinetools.com.
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Held every other year at Chicagos McCormick
Place, The International Manufacturing Technol-
ogy Show (IMTS) comprises a trade show, confer-
ence sessions and various other events for man-
ufacturing professionals. The 2016 edition is
expected to be one of the largest in show history,
with producers AMTThe Association For Man-
ufacturing Technology anticipating more than
100,000 visitors from 112 countries.
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Chicago, Illinois
additiveconference.com
The 2016 edition of the Additive Manufacturing
Conference takes place alongside IMTS, with one
and a half days of sessions and networking oppor-
tunities plus tours and full access to the show
floor. The program will cover the processes,
products and possibilities of additive manufactur-
ing technologies for making functional components
and end-use production parts.
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QUALITY GAGING TIPS Columnist
Automating Gages
Doing so can help speed the measurement process, eliminate operator
influence and generate better results.
A trained inspection technician will most likely
get better results from a gage than your average
machine operator. The operator is also likely to be
slower to complete the process than the trained
technician, and there is a good possibility that he
will not be able to keep up with the rate at which
the machine is producing parts.
Because of this, standard off-the-shelf gaging
may not be the best choice for specific inspection
processes at the machine or for best throughput
by the operator. More and more high-production
facilities are looking to reduce the amount of inter-
action the operator has with the part. Machine
operators are there to make parts, not necessar-
ily to handle, measure and move parts.
When most people think of automation with
custom gages, they envision a large inline gaging
system with parts moving along on a conveyor and
being passed through the automatic gage, mea-
sured and sorted, per part requirements. And while
this is a true example of an automated gaging
process, there are a lot of in-between gages that,
while not as extensive as fully automatic gages,
do introduce some automation to the process.
This is because what automation does is provide
an operational improvement to an apparatus,
process or system by adding mechanical or elec-
tronic devices that take the place of human labor.
Thus, anytime we use a custom gage that
replaces, or even just lessens operator involvement,
we have provided some form of automation. And
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every time we reduce or replace human involve-
ment, we are apt to speed up the measuring
process and reduce manufacturing costs.
Based on this premise that custom gaging is
meant to speed the measuring process and reduce
the human element, we can begin dividing custom
gages into various levels of automation and look
at how these can help improve the inspection
process and increase production.
Automating manual gages. On a very basic
level, if a manual gage is created with the specific
goal of making it easier to stage or gage a part,
then we have helped automate the process. Or, if
the manual gage is designed to make multiple
checks at once, the same goal is accomplished:
the gage reduces or takes the place of human
labor.
Semi-automatic gages. The next level of
automation brings movement into the gaging
operation. Parts often have to be moved or manip-
ulated to make the required check: diameter
variation runouts, concentricity or some other
rotational function, for example. This required
movement can be built into a custom gage, includ-
ing rotating a part faster than the operator can or
rotating it at a constant velocity without operator
influence. There are a number of ways to do this.
One is to effect the rotation so that both static and
rotation checks can be made in one operation. For
a custom-configured, standard-element system,
this is the ultimate in automation: multiple checks,
faster rotation and no operator influence.
Fully automated gages. Fully automating the
measuring process is the ultimate custom gage
solution. It takes the operator completely out of
the picture and allows running lights-out in a very
reliable manner.
There are two levels of custom-gage automation
involving part movement within the gage: The gage
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can be designed for an automated process as a However, they all have the same goals: speed the
standalone station, or the gage can be part of the process, eliminate the influence of the operator
manufacturing process and take over for some and generate better measuring results.
portion of the part handling within the manufactur-
ing cycle. Gages designed as standalone stations
are often robot-fed, and may or may not include Parts often have to be
part manipulation/movement. Standalone stations moved or manipulated to
have all the gaging components in place with the make the required check:
measuring system sending information back to a diameter variation runouts,
main controller. The gage will often use sensors to concentricity or some
verify to the process controller when a part is in other rotational function,
place, when to take a measurement and when to for example. This required
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CNC TECH TALK Columnist
A Custom Macro for
Bar Pulling
This alternative to bar feeding can provide many of the same capabilities, but
at a fraction of the cost.
One popular application for turning centers
is bar work, during which multiple workpieces
are machined from one long bar. While bar feed-
ers may be the most efficient platform for send-
ing a bar through the machines spindle, bar
pullers provide many of the same capabilities at
a fraction of the cost.
On a turning center, one turret station is
required to hold the bar-pulling device. Designs
for bar pullers vary, but the basic idea is that
during the CNC cycle and after a workpiece is
cut off from the bar: 1) the spindle will stop and
the bar puller will engage the workpiece; 2) the
clamping system (collet or chuck) will release
the workpiece; 3) the Z axis will advance the bar;
4) the clamping system will be clamped again;
and 5) the bar puller will retract from the work-
piece and machining operations on the next
workpiece will be performed.
Many programmers use subprogramming
techniques for the repeated workpiece machin-
ing and bar advance. If 20 workpieces can be
machined from a bar, for example, they will use
a command something like this one (program
O1000 in this example is a program that machines
one workpiece):
N040 M98 P1000 L20
This works well as long as the cycle is not
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interrupted while a bar is being machined. If the
cycle is cancelled for any reason, the machine
will lose track of how many workpieces have been
machined, complicating the task of restarting.
Additionally, using this technique can lead to
wasted raw material. If the machine is in the
middle of a bar when the programmed part count
is reached, nothing will (automatically) stop the
machine until the whole bar is machined.
These issues can be overcome with a relatively
simple-to-use custom macro:
O0002
(Input data)
#100=275 (Lot size)
#101=1.0 (Workpiece length)
#106=1020 (Program number for the
machining program)
#104=36.0 (Bar length in inches)
#102=0.03 (Facing stock)
#105=3.0 (Remnant length in inches)
#103=0.125 (Cutoff tool width)
IF [#501GT0] GOTO5 (Test if any workpieces
have been machined)
(Calculations for a new production run)
#500=0 (Counter for bar)
#503=#101+#102+#103 (Bar advance amount)
#502=FIX[[#104-#105]/#503] (Number of parts
per bar)
(Loop for the production run)
N5IF [#501GE#100] GOTO99 (Test for lot
completion)
(Loop for each bar)
IF [#500GE#502] GOTO98 (Test for bar completion)
M98P#106 (Execute the program that runs a part
and advances the bar)
#500=#500+1 (Step bar counter)
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#501=#501+1 (Step production run counter)
GOTO5 (Go back to bar completion and lot
completion tests)
(Actions when bar or lot is completed)
N98#500=0 (Reset bar counter)
#3000=100 (Load a new bar)
N99#500=0 (Reset bar counter)
#501=0 (Reset production run counter)
#3000=100 (Production run is completed)
M30
To use this program (it will be the main pro-
gram), first create, load and test the workpiece-
machining and bar-advance subprograms. Then,
modify the input data in the program above. It is
likely that much of this data will remain the same
from job to job (like bar and remnant length), so
we have listed the data in the order most likely
to be changed. If you use a consistent process
for your bar-pulling application, it is likely that
only the first three input data values must be
changed from job to job.
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Since the bar-advance amount (#503) is a per-
manent common variable and is retained from
program to program, you can use it in the machin-
ing program during bar advance to save some work:
G98 G01 W#503 F30.0 (Pull the bar)
Once the program has completed a bar, it will
put the machine in alarm state with the message
to load a new bar. At this time, load the new bar,
reset the program (so that it runs from the begin-
ning) and restart the cycle. When the program
completes the production run (probably in the
middle of a bar), it will place the machine in alarm
state with the message that the production run
is completed.
It is important to note that the value of #501,
the production counter, must be set to zero before
this program is used for the first time. It is set
back to zero at the completion of each production
run, but if you stop running the job before com-
pleting the production run for any reason (pos-
sibly to pull off of the job to work on a more urgent
one), you must reset #501 to zero yourself.
FEATURE

Establishing a Path
to Success
Our Top Shops benchmarking survey aims to cover everything from A to Z in
identifying machine shop operational excellence and best practices. The goal
is to provide shops with intelligence they can use to more effectively pave a
path to success.
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M uch about our Top Shops benchmarking
survey revolves around providing numbers
and values that shops can compare to their own
to see how they rate against industry leaders.
Here are three examples: In this our sixth survey
edition, our Top Shops benchmarking group (the
group that represents the top 20 percent of shops
as determined by totaling the points assigned to
certain business- and technology-related ques-
tions) reports median spindle uptime of 72 percent
compared to 60 percent for other surveyed shops.
Profit margins for Top Shops and other shops in
2015 were 15 and 8 percent, respectively. Plus,
the quote-to-book ratio for Top Shops was 61
percent compared to 50 percent for other shops.
These and other such shopfloor and financial
metrics are included in the 2016 Top Shops
Executive Summar y that we created. Sur vey
participants received printed copies, but you can
access a digital version at mmsonline.com/
topshops.
However, what the sur vey also unveils are
various ideas, strategies, equipment and processes
that leading shops are leveraging to their advan-
tage. Because we want the survey to cover every-
thing from A to Z in that regard, here are 26
examples to consider based on the 2016 results:
A pprenticeship programs. A larger number
of Top Shops have developed some flavor of
in-house training or apprenticeship program for
prospects. In some cases, a general shop training
curriculum is adequate, but sometimes custom-
ization is necessary for shops having specialized
machining and manufacturing processes. This
type of training also helps to standardize processes,
eliminating any person-to-person variation from
the way the tasks are supposed to be performed.
This year marks the sixth edition of our Top Shops
benchmarking survey. To celebrate, we came up
with a fresh logo for the brand and asked Applied
Engineering, located in Yankton, South Dakota, to
machine it out of aluminum plate. Were also intro-
ducing the Top Shops Conference in 2017, which you
can read about in the sidebar on page 81.
FEATURE
B allbar inspection. Circular ballbar tests give
shops a diagnostic review of a machines
capability, identif ying issues such as scaling
mismatch resulting from the difference in the
measured travels of the X and Y axes. (Typically,
one of the axes is either over-traveling or under-
traveling relative to the other.) A new value for the
linear error compensation parameter can then be
entered to improve machining of curves and arcs.
C ustomer tours. Leading shops use customer
tours as a marketing tool to showcase their
in-house technologies and capabilities, as well
as the pride they have in their employees and
overall operation. Tours also enable them to
demonstrate the control they have over their
processes and the thought put into how work
flows through the shop.
D esign for manufacturability. Adding engi-
neering staff is becoming more important
for shops as more OEMs outsource their machin-
ing work. An unintended consequence of this for
OEMs is that many of their product designers no
longer have access to internal manufacturing
engineers who can suggest ways that new designs
can be modified to facilitate production. Shops
that can offer DFM advice can suggest design
changes to simplify machining work and reduce
production costs.
E nterprise resource planning. ERP software
offers potential advantages with respect to
costing, estimating, scheduling and job tracking.
Having fully interactive access to process control
software enables supervisors to stay close to
activities on the shop floor so they can quickly
access pertinent information and make changes
on the spot. Implementing ERP reveals actual
costs and revenue where they are incurred.
F ive-axis machining. Whether its 3+2 posi-
tioning or full contouring, many leading shops
use five-axis machining as a way to create com-
plex components with tight relative feature toler-
ances. Plus, accessing five faces of a part in one
setup minimizes the number of times a part is
touched during production.
G rinding. More than half of all surveyed shops
this year refurbish cutting tools using their
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own grinding machines, which is a significant
increase from the last survey. Although these
machines are most commonly used by cutting
tool manufacturers and regrinding ser vices,
simplification of operation and lower cost have
made them attractive to machine shops, too.
H igh-speed machining. HSM was largely
born out of the needs of the aerospace
industry to remove a good amount of material,
creating pockets from solid material as it moved
away from the use of weldments. It is now being
applied in other industries, whereby high spindle
speeds and fast, light cuts ultimately result in
higher material removal rates compared to slower
hogging operations. Advanced shops use tap
tests to identify the highest spindle speed that
wont result in chatter.
I ndexers. A rotary indexer is a relatively inex-
pensive way to bring four- or five-axis motion
to a three-axis VMC. It can also enable multiple
parts to be fixtured, much like a tombstone on an
HMC. Plus, it can be removed from a machines
table to allow three-axis work to be performed
on a large workpiece.
TOP SHOPS HONORS
PROGRAM WINNERS
Our annual Top Shops benchmarking survey
includes an Honors Program to highlight
shops in the top 20 percent benchmarking
group that performed well in a particular
survey category. These shops were vetted
by Executive Editor Derek Korn and will be
profiled in upcoming issues of the magazine.
Congratulations to the following Honors
Program winners for 2016:
2016 Award Winners
Machining Technology
Donson MachineAlsip, Illinois
Shopfloor Practices
Tech ManufacturingWright City, Missouri
Business Strategies
C&M MachiningWebb City, Missouri
Human Resources
Mallory IndustriesFarmington, Connecticut
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J ust in time. Nearly 60 percent of this years
Top Shops offer JIT delivery to customers
compared to 40 percent of other shops. This isnt
surprising given the degree of process control,
organizational commitment, predictive mainte-
nance and related attributes that are required to
establish an effective, reliable JIT production
environment.
K aizen events. Kaizen is the lean manufac-
turing concept of continuous improvement.
The key to its successful implementation is making
continuous improvement part of a shops culture,
but letting individual employees determine how
best to carry out kaizen. Holding large kaizen
events to address significant changes is important,
but its also important to continuously focus on
what might be considered smallish improvements
each day.
L inkedIn. In terms of social media channels
used, LinkedIn remains the most popular
among shops, compared to Facebook, Twitter
and Instagram. This year, nearly 90 percent of all
shops surveyed reported using it to connect and
interact with potential new business contacts.
M achine monitoring. Although some Indus-
trial Internet of Things concepts still seem
ethereal at this point, machine monitoring is a
real-world application shops can adopt and
benefit from today. MTConnect, the open, royalty-
free standard that provides a common commu-
nication link between machines, is starting to be
considered by a growing number of Top Shops
as a means to do that.
N ear-dry machining. Also known as minimum
quantity lubrication (MQL), near-dry machin-
ing delivers an oil mist instead of flood coolant to
the tool and workpiece. It can lower machining
costs by eliminating not only the large volume of
coolant used in conventional wet operations, but
also all the ancillary equipment and electrical
power necessary to maintain a big, central cool-
ant system. MQL also creates a cleaner, safer
manufacturing environment, which is beneficial
to the health of both the equipment used on the
shop floor and the employees who work there.
O n-machine probes. Probes mounted in a
machines spindle can reduce setup time by
establishing the true location of a workpiece
fixtured on a table, which then enables the CNC

to shift the coordinate system to compensate.
They can also probe key machined features midway
through a job for process control to minimize scrap
and rework. Additionally, tool probes can help
speed setups by automatically measuring tools
and performing in-procees tool-breakage checks.
P rofit sharing. The hourly pay offered by Top
Shops and other surveyed shops typically is
similar. That said, leading shops are more likely
to offer other benefits to entice and retain good
employees. One is a profit-sharing plan, in which
both the company and its employees can benefit
because it spurs the workforce to look for ways
to improve efficiencies, thereby improving produc-
tion rates and profits.
Q uality certifications. Some shops attain
ISO or AS certification because it is demanded
by their customers to demonstrate that they have
an effective quality management system in place
and firm control over their processes and proce-
dures. However, leading shops dont look at
cer tification only as a task to be completed.
Instead, to truly realize all the potential for process
improvement, they make the principles of a stan-
dard part of their company culture.
R obotic automation. Robotic technology
has come a long way, and leading shops
recognize that robots offer real value in terms of
unattended or lights-out machining situations.
Theyre also becoming easier to integrate and
program, and have improved sensing capabilities.
It will be interesting to see the impact that col-
laborative robots will have moving forward. These
robots dont need protective cages and can work
safely in the same area as humans.
S wiss-type lathes. Screw machine shops
were the first to adopt multifunction CNC
Swiss-type lathes. Today, an increasing number
of traditional shops are also considering this
machining platform to, in some cases, produce
complex parts complete, reducing setups, sec-
ondary operations and work in process.
T ool presetters. Offline measurement of tools
using a presetter can go a long way toward
reducing change-over times. This is especially
important for job shops that commonly have a
high mix of work. Measuring and providing tools
to operators prior to subsequent new jobs elimi-
nates the need for them to find necessary tooling
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If youre interested in learning more about
strategies, practices and technologies such
as those covered in this article, make plans
to attend our inaugural Top Shops Conference
next fall. Our goal for this is not to focus so
heavily on bleeding-edge concepts and
ideas, but rather to offer presentations about
very advanced yet practical tactics, processes,
machining approaches and so on that people
could readily apply once back at their shops.
Topics might include additive manufacturing
in a shop setting, machine tool monitoring
and data collection, cutting tool management,
and business best practices. Stay tuned for
additional information, including dates
and location.
themselves and manually touch-off during setup,
ultimately improving spindle uptime.
U phill battles. This years survey included
an open-ended question asking about what
shops envision to be their challenges ahead. The
four most common responses were uncertainty
with regard to the upcoming U.S. presidential
election, concerns about the economy in general,
the ebb in the oil/gas industry and the challenge
of finding shopfloor talent. The last of these has
been a problem for some time.
V alue stream mapping. VSM is a visual lean
manufacturing tool that identifies where value
is or isnt being added as material flows through
a production process. The first step is to create
a current-state map that shows wasted motion,
unnecessary part handling and so on. Then, a
future-state map can be created to show how
rearranged equipment and processes can improve
product flow.
W aterjet machining. Waterjets are not just
for fabrication shops. An increasing number
of machine shops are using them, too. One way
these shops benefit from them is creating work-
piece blanks from plate material to closer-to-net
shape than a typical sawn blank. This reduces
the amount of subsequent milling work required
to complete the parts.
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X factor. An X factor is a technology that shops

arent currently implementing on a grand
scale, but that could potentially enable them to
devices for mills and lathes, as well as tooling
to consider.

diversify and/or increase efficiencies. Perhaps THREE FINAL POINTS

the biggest at this point is additive manufacturing.
Still largely used for prototyping, AM can be
employed to quickly 3D print tooling, fixtures, jigs
and related items for use in a machine shop.
Y ouTube. While LinkedIn is popular among
Top Shops for connecting with others, they
also use YouTube to share video of their overall
capabilities, specific challenging machining oper-
ations and so on. Technology such as GoPro
cameras mounted inside a machines workzone
greatly simplifies this.
Z ero-point clamping systems. Many work
holding device manufacturers offer zero-point
clamping systems. These systems use fixtures
that have a clamping knob(s) that is inserted into
receivers installed on a machines bed. This pro-
vides quick and position-repeatable clamping.
That said, there are other forms of quick-change
Harbour Results Inc., is an industrial management
consulting firm located in Southfield, Michigan.
We asked consultant James Murphy and the HRI
team to review Top Shops data to identify specific
practices or strategies that leading shops share.
In doing so, three ideas emerged. First, investing
in technology can positively impact a shops
bottom line. HRI has found that companies with
a capital expenditure of more than 10 percent of
revenue tend to be more profitable by four per-
centage points on average. Second, shops with
an apprenticeship program have shorter machine
setup times and higher capacity utilization. Third,
continuous improvement initiatives result in fewer
quality issues, higher on-time delivery rates and
higher spindle utilization rates.
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Making Cents
of Vertical Automation
When part volumes are high, and success is measured in pennies and
seconds, moving away from horizontal machines requires creative thinking
about robotics, cutting tools, workholding and more.
BY MAT T DANFORD
A s far as Jordan Klint is concerned, Vickers
Engineering is just the right size.
Its certainly not too small. Decorated by the
previous owner to resemble a castle, complete
with mock parapets and a drawbridge, the facil-
ity immediately stands out. Still, first-time visitors
might never guess that lurking behind this medi-
eval faade is a cavernous 120,000 square feet
of manufacturing space, where more than 100
CNC machining centers churn out engine, brak-
ing and other components for, as Mr. Klint puts
it, pretty much anything on wheels. This kind
of c a p a c i t y m a ke s th e h e av i l y a u to m ate d,
170-employee company an impor tant link in
automotive supply chains (it enjoys Tier-One
status for most work). It is also a critical partner
for a slew of construction, agricultural, defense,
and oil and gas industry clients. It is certainly an
important fixture in New Troy, an unincorporated
community of about 500 people in picturesque
southwestern Michigan.
Yet, the company isnt too large, either, Mr. Klint
says, or at least it doesnt feel that way. Since
starting here in 2011 and climbing the ranks to
(F acing P age ) The requirement for additional part
setups on vertical machines has driven the automa-
tion team to get more creative about robot grippers.
Models like this are capable of clamping parts in
multiple orientations.
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engineering manager, he says hes been given
plenty of leeway in how he does his job. Thats
thanks largely to the sort of culture one might
expect to find at a much smaller company. Here,
people are free to make their own way rather than
being forced into rigid, pre-defined roles. Weve
got the resources to invest when we need to, but
were still small enough to be flexible and try new
things, he says.
Many new ideas originate with a special team
of engineers and programmers that acts essen-
tially as an in-house automation systems integra-
tor. With both the desire and the authority to
challenge accepted wisdom in search of a better
way, this team exemplifies the companys posi-
tion between small, resource-strapped shops
working with outside consultants and larger
operations that lack the independence required
for flexibility. Most recently, the teams work has
led Vickers Engineering to bet its future on the
notion that, if configured properly, robot-fed
vertical machining centers can be just as pro-
ductive as robot-fed horizontals.
The key phrase, of course, is if configured
properly. There are good reasons why the com-
pany has long standardized on horizontal machin-
ing centers (HMCs) over their less-expensive
vertical cousins. High part volumessome long-
standing contracts exceed 1 million per yearleave
little room for error, and initial machine cost
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savings would be for naught without keeping
per-part costs and cycle times on par with what
a horizontal could achieve. Making a new way
has meant thinking differently about virtually
every element of the process, from robot grip-
pers and programming to cutting tools and
workholding. We live in a world of seconds and
cents, and every one counts, says Jeff Vickers,
vice president.
HORIZONTAL ROOTS, VERTICAL GROWTH
Since the companys founding in 1970, the vast
majority of high-volume parts have been machined
from cast iron and aluminum castings on Mori
Seiki NH4000 DCG and larger NH5000 DCG
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HMCs and pallet changers have long been the
preferred equipment at Vickers Engineering
because you get your loads for free, Mr. Klint says.
Making up for this advantage is largely an exercise in
minimizing spindle downtime.
HMCs. One reason for standardizing on a hori-
zontal machine configuration is that the spindle
can access not just the front faces of the work-
pieces, but also the ends/sides of those on the
left and right faces of the tombstone, all in the
same setup. In the meantime, loading/unloading
can proceed on the second pallet, a task thats
largely been automated since the installation of
the companys first robot arm in 2006.
Although verticals can be fitted with pallet
changers, too, they accommodate fewer parts
than an indexing tombstone. Parts also tend to
Reflecting the change in philosophy that accompanies
moving parts progressively from fixture to fixture and
operation to operation, Engineering Manager Jordan
Klint often refers to VMC cells as vertical transfer
lines. Here, a robot picks up a milled part from the
nest to its left, places it in the fixture at this dedi-
cated etching station, then inserts a turned part from
the conveyor in front of it. After etching, the assem-
bled component is conveyed out of the cell.

require more clamping configurations to ensure
access. Robot or not, that means more frequent
loading and unloading, and more setups per part.
That translates to more frequent spindle interrup-
tions and thus, more downtime. In contrast, with
a robot-tended HMC, You get your loads for free,
Mr. Klint says.
Understandably, it took an unusual set of cir-
cumstances to prompt the shop to adopt its first
high-production VMC cell. Although most machin-
ing cells are in place for about 5-7 years, some
jobs run longer. That was the case for the machin-
ing of an automotive engine stiffener bracket
casting, a process that, by early 2015, was in dire
need of an upgrade. Meanwhile, a DMG MORI
Duravertical VMC had been sitting idle after the
conclusion of a job with volumes too low to justify
a dedicated HMC and robot, but too high for
t h e c o m p a n y s s e p a r a te l o w -v o l u m e a n d
prototyping divisions. Faced with the prospect of
re-engineering the stiffener bracket job anyway,
the team saw an opportunity.
Just maybe, Mr. Klint and his colleagues rea-
soned, the VMC could come close enough to the
efficiency of an HMC to justify moving the stiffener
bracket there rather than investing in an entirely
new cell. In turn, proving that this could be done
would open the door to using VMCs for other work
as well. We wanted to see how far we could go
down this path until we hit a roadblock we couldnt
overcome, and that hasnt happened yet, he says,
noting that the shop has installed six more VMC
cells since then. Well cer tainly install more
horizontal cells moving forward. But weve also
shown that verticals can be a key tool when it
comes to staying competitive.
MINDING SECONDS AND CENTS
Vickers Engineerings success with its seven VMC
cells speaks for itself. Still, Mr. Klint emphasizes
that making up for the lost flexibility of an HMCs
indexing tombstonethat is, doing everything
possible to minimize downtime in order to meet
cost and cycle-time targetstook significant time
and energy as well as all the ingenuity that the
automation team could muster. The original cell
for the stiffener bracket provides a prime example
of the lengths to which the team goes to wring
every last cent and every fraction of a second
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Although this automotive stiffener bracket became
the first truly high-volume part at Vickers Engineer-
ing to be produced on a VMC, quantities of 229,000
per year are actually relatively low by the companys
standards.
from its new VMCs.
This particular part is machined in two clamp-
ing configurations. As shown on the next page,
the VMCs work envelope is large enough to
comfortably accommodate four fixtures, two for
each load (two A-side loads and two B-side loads).
Experimentation led the team to abandon efforts
to use all of the fixtures at once, as they might
with a horizontal machine. Unloading two finished
parts from the B-load fixtures, transferring two
in-process parts from A-load fixtures to B-load
fixtures, and loading two fresh castings kept the
door open (and the spindle stopped) for too long.
Rather, the crew determined that the best way to
minimize spindle downtime would be to machine
only two parts per cycle: one in an A fixture and
one in the B fixture on the opposite side of the
workzone (that is, catty-corner from the A fixture).
Once A-side and B-side machining on those
parts is complete, the robot arm uses a twin-
station gripper to bring in two fresh castings. The
basic routine is place, pick, place, pick. More
specifically, the robot first deposits a fresh cast-
ing into the open A-side fixture, then moves over
and uses the same, now-unoccupied clamping
station to pick up the already-machined part from
the adjacent A-side fixture (place, pick). Then, it
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rotates 90 degrees and repeats the same process
for the B-side fixtures. Now loaded with the two
machined parts, it moves out of the workzone.
The finished part (from the B-side fixture) goes
to a conveyor leading out of the cell. The in-
process part (from the A-side fixture) is deposited
in a nesting fixture outside the machine, where
its held in the proper orientation for loading in
the open B-side fixture during the robots next
cycle. Thanks in large part to this strategy, each
interruption for loading/unloading amounts to
only 7 seconds, beating the initial goal of 8 sec-
onds. Compared to the dated, previous process,
costs per piece were reduced from 31 to 18 cents.
Although every new job presents its own pro-
cess engineering challenges, this first experiment
taught the team a number of lessons that theyve
applied to every new VMC job since. Heres a look
at some of the key elements of the companys
strategy for making sense of vertical automation:
Faster bots, faster doors. Keeping robot
interruptions to 7 seconds on that first VMC cell
took more than just creative engineering. In a
practice that has been duplicated on all subse-
quent cells, the company opted for the lightest,
smallest, and by extension, the fastest robot arm
possible for the job: a M-10iA from FANUC Robot-
ics with load capacity of 10 kg. Thats a contrast
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Rather than loading all
four of these fixtures
with stiffener brackets in
one machining cycle, the
robot in the shops first
cell loads only two at a
time. This results in less
spindle downtime.
to the older horizontal cells, in which the ability
to machine during loading/unloading cycles made
robot capacity a greater priority than speed (hence
the decision to standardize mostly on the relatively
robust M-710iC, which offers 50-kg capacity).
To take full advantage of this speed, the
automation team has replaced a side panel on
e a c h D u r ave r t i c a l w i t h a n e w d o o r t h a t s
a s s e m b l e d i n - h o u s e. O p e r a te d v i a a n a i r
cylinder with a programmable logic controller
(PLC), these custom doors take only 0.8 second
to open or close, compared to 1.5 seconds for
the factory model.
Custom cutters. The companys first VMC
cell never would have been able to compete with
a horizontal configuration without two special
geometries from Seco Tools. One is a back-
chamfering cutter, a tool that approaches through
one end of a hole to cut a chamfer surrounding
the opening on the other end. The other custom
tool, depicted on the next page, performs face
milling and slotting operations on two different
part faces simultaneously. Both tools share the
same primary advantage: They help make up for
the lost flexibility of an HMC by combining oper-
ations previously performed by multiple cutters,
thus minimizing both tool changes and the number
of required clamping configurations.

Leveraging gravity. Fortunately, workhold-
ing is one of the few aspects of the process that
tends to be less complicated with a vertical, says
Robert Kracker, a manufacturing engineer who
works on the automation team with Mr. Klint.
One reason is that once the cycle starts, gravity
becomes a VMCs ally, adding rigidity and firmly
anchoring workpieces that might other wise
extend into thin air and require balancing with
spring clips and toggles. To further press this
advantage, vertical cell operators have made a
habit of extending parts as far off the work table
as possible. This reduces the distanceand
timerequired for the spindle to reach the work-
piece while also improving rigidity, especially in
extended-reach situations.
Granted, chip evacuation is always a particu-
lar focus when designing vertical fixtures, Mr.
Kracker says, citing the practice of surrounding
locating pin interfaces with counterbores and
channels that provide pathways for coolant and
chips to flow harmlessly away (see the picture on
page 91). Overall, however, the relative simplicity
of vertical workholding makes it easier to develop
fixtures that help simplify robot motion and avoid
misloads, Mr. Kracker says. This is particularly
important when parts must move through mul-
tiple stations, including some outside the machine.
For instance, the nesting fixture on the first VMC
cell leverages gravity and various locating points
to ensure the part fits only if oriented correctly for
placement in the B fixture on the machine table.
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The basic idea is to create a funnelto have the
part fall naturally into the fixture and only fit one
way, he says.
More sophisticated grippers. Engineering
another variety of workholdingrobot end effec-
torsisnt so simple. Without the inherent flexibil-
ity afforded by an indexing tombstone, the team
has been forced to think beyond end-of-arm
tooling that grips parts in the same way on the
same clamping locations every time.
Thats the case even for the single VMC on the
floor that offers more than three axes. Without a
fourth-axis rotary table, this machine could never
access all of the part in only two clamping con-
figurations on two dedicated fixtures. Even so, it
took an innovative gripper design to ensure the
robot arm could complete all needed transfers
loading a raw casting, unloading the finished part
and moving the in-process part to the next fix-
turewithout creating too much downtime, Mr.
Kracker says. As shown on page 84, each of the
grippers three stations is dedicated to one of
these tasks, with the end effector rotating as
needed in 180-degree increments. Although the
in-process gripper and final-part gripper clamp
on the same hole pattern, they interface with that
pattern from opposite sides of the part. The fact
that the hole pattern would be slightly offset if the
two parts were to be laid atop one another com-
plicated engineering, but it also helped prevent
misloads, he notes.
As is the case with other vertical cells employ-
ing multifunction grippers, each station and each
individual finger is clearly labeled to ensure proper
assembly if components need to be replaced.
Working with VMCs also led the engineering team
to shave a few tenths of a second from the safety
check that ensures parts are held securely before
the robot moves away from the staging area, nest
or fixture. Just like those in the older, HMC-based
cells, VMC cell grippers fire a shot of air that trig-
gers a sensor upon impact with the workpiece,
Tools with combined functionality are one of Vickers
Engineerings chief means of making up for the lost
flexibility of an HMC. This example from the compa-
nys first high-volume vertical cell performs simulta-
neous face milling and slotting operations on different
areas of the part.
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One inherent advantage of verticals is that they dont

require rotary unions to link up hydraulic workhold-
ing. Visible on the top of this HMC tombstone, these
devices use multiple independent, sealed passages
to maintain a continuous hydraulic fluid connection
without the hoses becoming twisted when the fixture
indexes, but they can be time-consuming to maintain.

and, in some cases, even adding more positions

to minimize traverse time. Careful engineering
and sof tware simulation have so far proven
sufficient to avoid any problems.
Another tweak has reduced the time required
to teach a robot; that is, to manually jog it through
its programmed routine. Consider that for part
pickup alone, this requires logging X, Y and Z
coordinates for as many as 30 individual work-
pieces stations in each staging drawer. This can
be time-consuming not only during initial cell
setup, but also whenever a robot must be re-
programmed for any reason (maintenance that
requires removing and reinstalling end-of-arm
tooling, a knocked fixture, etc.). To alleviate this
burden, the team now uses of fsets instead.
Returning to the example of part pickup, each
drawer has its own coordinate frame, the robot
is jogged only to a central location, and the PLC
calculates the locations of the rest of the stations
based on that single point. In addition to saving
and robot motion begins as soon as the PLC time, this strategy has proven more reliable than
receives that signal. The difference is that on the manually jogging the robot because theres less
new VMC cells, theres no delay between the risk of error, Mr. Kracker says.
closing of the clamping mechanism and the safety
check. Its like a stop sign instead of a stoplight, ALWAYS WORTH THE EFFORT
Mr. Klint says. The work involved with engineering a vertical cell
CNC and programming tweaks. Although might seem overly daunting, no matter how sig-
every cell is different, certain time-saving strat- nificant the cost savings. Nonetheless, Mr. Kracker
egies are ubiquitous. For example, all DuraVer- and Mr. Klint insist that experiments like this can
tical VMCs come standard with a preset tool- pay dividends even if they dont work out. For
change positiona safe spot for the spindle instance, the aforementioned tweaks to robot
that minimizes the risk of interference when the teach routines would save time regardless of
automatic toolchanger makes the swap. Although whether the company had ever adopted VMC
that can be a boon for most general machining cells. The case is the same for various other
applications, every fraction of a second devoted changes catalyzed by that transition, including
to a tool change can mean the difference between the decision to standardize on a single interface
success and failure on a VMC cell at Vickers for all cell-controlling PLCs. Likewise with a move
Engineering, Mr. Kracker says. Thats why the to use more macros and subprogramswhich
team modifies this factory setting for every new can often be adapted for different cells laterin
machine, customizing tool-change positions place of lengthy, step-by-step coding.

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Verticals offer the opportunity to work with gravity

rather than against it, but only with the right precau-
tions. For instance, these locating pads feature chan-
nels and counterbores to provide an escape route for
chips that might otherwise interfere with machining.

ing knowledge and expertise, but also its creativ-

ity and its willingness to question established
practices. The best way to get us to try some-
thing is to tell us it cant or shouldnt be done,
Mr. Klint says.

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Equipped for Composites

What machine tool features make sense for composites? A shop machining
critical aircraft parts in both metal and composites describes the key features
of the machine it bought with an eye toward CFRP.
BY PETER ZELINSKI

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F or General Tool Co. (GTC), a 70-year-old
contract manufacturer in Cincinnati, Ohio,
composites machining means something dif-
ferent and more challenging than what the phrase
often implies. Much of composites machining
consists of trimming and related operations on
CNC routers, frequently to relatively loose toler-
ances. By contrast, GTC produces carbon fiber
reinforced plastic (CFRP) components for military
vehicles including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to
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comparable tolerancesas well as to the same
quality assurance standardsas critical parts
machined in metal. The company also makes
these components using the very same types of
machine tools on which critical metal parts would
be made.
Indeed, demonstrating its ability to machine
CFRP parts this accurately is how GTC first became
established working with this material. The start
was more than 20 years ago, when an aerospace
customer faced capacity constraints machining
composite fan blades. GTC worked with the
customer to develop a process for precisely
machining the blades root structures using dia-
mond abrasive tooling on an HMC with a high-
torque spindle that might otherwise cut aerospace
alloys. More CFRP work followed this, and GTC
developed increasingly more experience at
machining the challenging composite parts on
its metalcutting machines.
This year, the company took a major step that
represents both a renewed commitment to
composites machining and an advance from its
practice so far. For the first time, the company
purchased a large-travel, precision five-a xis
machine tool that was chosen particularly with
composites work in mind. The steady increase
the company has seen in composites machining
coupled with the ex tent to which it expects
customers to favor composites for new parts in
the future led to the conclusion that GTCs capac-
ity for composites machining ought to expand.
Specifically, the company wanted the level of
capacity represented by a metalcutting machine
tool that just happened to have the right set of
f e a t u r e s fo r t i g h t-to l e r a n c e m a c h i n i n g
of composites.
What features are those? There are several.
For a machine tool intended for composite parts,
The new machine was chosen for its potential effec-
tiveness at machining composite parts. It will join
other high-end machines at General Tool Co. that are
available for machining critical components in either
composites or metal.
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the company s ays the be ginning is simply ciency by performing all the necessary machining
the travels. in one setup.
Other features making the machine effective
HIGH WAYS for composites relate to its structure. A U-shaped
The new machine is a Diamond 30 five-a xis design for the base and frame places axis drives
gantry-style machining center from Parpas. Both and the way systems far above the work area,
of the machines rotary axes are in the spindle near the machines ceiling. Mr. Kramer says this
head, meaning that the spindle is able to move is beneficial because flood coolant during machin-
and pivot around the part while the part itself ing tends to carry the dust from machining carbon-
doesnt move. fiber composite into mechanisms located below
Composites machining is often inherently five- the cutting. Machine tools running composite
axis machining, notes General Tool CTO Greg parts throughout his shop filter coolant to capture
Kramer. From a design standpoint, part of the this dust, and they feature protected way systems,
very appeal of composites is the ability to make but in spite of all of this, disassembly of the machines
contoured forms in monolithic pieces. Parts GTC for maintenance inevitably reveals carbon dust
machines therefore typically include tight-tolerance infiltrating these systems. He says getting the
features in need of machining at various angles, ways up out of the way (so to speak) might be the
sometimes combined with contoured milling tool best solution to this problem.
paths. In the past, CFRP parts such as large F-35 In addition, on the Parpas machine, this same
ducts required various setups even on one of the structure is monitored with temperature sensors
companys larger five-axis machines to let the feeding data to the CNC, and it is cooled during
machine reach all of the parts critical features. operation with refrigerated air. The result Mr.
But the 3,000-by-2,600-mm travels of the Parpas Kramer expects is a dimensionally stable machine
machine are large enough to let the machine reach tool, and that stability is even more important for
all the way around these parts, increasing effi- composites than for metal, he says. Thermal

GTCs machining of
defense-related CFRP
components involves
features that have
tolerances comparable to
those of critical parts in
metal.

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Features of the new machine that make it suitable for the much older machine tool this machine replaced
composites include large travels so that a five-axis did not have that capability. Since a composite
part can be set up just one time, as well as protec- part is a workpiece that already has a significant
tion of the ways via a design that elevates them high amount of value built into it before the shop even
above the work. receives it, the machining process for such a part
poses far more financial risk than a process that
expansion of a metal machine might be no con- begins with a square billet of metal. Machining
cern if the metal workpiece is similarly expanding. routines for CFRP parts as valuable as the ones
But CFRP, given its low expansion coefficient, GTC produces demand in-process inspection to
is a different matter. The machine that can be confirm accuracy, and machining personnel here
protected from heating up will be more likely to are accustomed to performing the inspections
hold fine tolerances on these composite parts. manually. Probing thus will increase efficiency,
One other, more commonplace feature of the because it will automate the process of safeguard-
machine is also impor tant, he says: spindle- ing the part against error.
mounted probing. With a probe, the Diamond 30
machine is equipped to perform some of its own TOOLING OPPORTUNITY
in-process measurements. Of course, many The new machine might lead to other process
machining centers are equipped for probing, but advances as well. Specifically, it might in some

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cases open the way to more cost-effective choices
in cutting tools.
Over the years, the company has experimented
extensively with tooling in CFRP. Its findings have
led it to favor diamond-abrasive tools used with
through-the-tool, high-pressure coolant delivery.
Scott Brown, GTC milling strategist, and Chuck
Shannon, programmer, were tasked with oversee-
ing the startup of the new machine and produc-
tion of its first composite parts. As they have
before, these men created light and fast tool paths
for the diamond-plated tools. However, this tool-
ing poses challenges, they say. Specifically, Mr.
Brown cites the danger that carbide dust might
bind up in the abrasive grit, eliminating the effec-
tiveness of the tool in the midst of the cut.
GTC machinist Eric Leder can attest to this.
General Tool Co., call 513-733-5500
or visit gentool.com.
Parpas America Corp., call 248-253-6000
or visit parpasamerica.com.
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GTC uses diamond-abrasive tooling routinely in
composites machining, but this tooling is not without
its challenges. The new machine will provide the
opportunity to evaluate alternate tooling choices.
Speaking to me at one point while the machining
cycle ran for a CFRP part (not on the new Parpas
machine, but on a machining center older than
this), he kept close to the machine in case he
heard the sound of this binding. That failure is
uncommon, but it happens just frequently enough
to justif y the machinist remaining aler t to its
occurrence.
In the particular part he was running, he says
one hole type actually proved so conducive to
tool binding that the shop ultimately abandoned
an abrasive tool for machining the feature. It
switched instead to a more conventional carbide
drill, albeit with a special grind geometry.
Such a switch might seem straightforward.
For a part intended for aircraft, however, making
a change like this was no small matter. The process
had been certified to make a flight-ready com-
ponent using the previous tool, so changing the
tool entailed recertification. In this case, that step
proved to be more than worthwhile, because the
carbide drill performed better and lasted much
longer than the former tool. Through this experi-
ence, GTC discovered that the wear resistance
of modern, standard cutting tools had advanced
to such a point that certain metalcutting tools
today are far better suited to CFRP than carbide
tools of the past.
This is a valuable discovery for the company
to have made just prior to installing the new
machine for CFRP. Since this machine is new,
everything about each parts process on it is
new. Existing parts sent to the machine will get
programs and processes that will need to be
certified as though the parts were new. As a
result, on each of these parts, the choice of cut-
ting tools is suddenly wide open. GTC is as free
to experiment with new cutting tools for com-
posites as it has ever been. In particular, it is free
to explore the extent to which alternatives to
diamond-abrasive tools might now be able to
do the work more effectively, further adding to
efficiencies it will realize on the composites-
equipped machine.
 CONTENTS
SEPTEMBER 2016

100 108
98 The Pitchline PUBLISHER
When a Part Becomes Art Travis Egan
Gears are gorgeous on their own, but watching the tegan@gardnerweb.com
interaction within a gear set is especially intriguing.
Read how this artist taught himself to make gears EDITOR
in order to power the drive of an art installment. Russ Willcutt
rwillcutt@mmsonline.com
F E AT U R E S
100 Every Process Has Its Place SR. MANAGING EDITOR
With so many advances being made in gear grind- Kate Hand
ing technology, where does that leave processes khand@gardnerweb.com
such as hobbing, shaping and shaving? This shop
explains its machining methodology. By Russ Willcutt ASSISTANT EDITOR
Jedd Cole
104 Next-Generation Gear Finishing jcole@gardnerweb.com
Vibratory finishing, centrifugal barrel finishing and
turbo-abrasive machining are the three top tech- ART DIRECTOR
niques for finishing gears, improving performance Kenny Snowball
and extending service life. By Ray Chalmers ksnowball@gardnerweb.com

108 The Benefits of a Bigger CMM ADVERTISING MANAGER

The elimination of backlogs, increased throughput, William Caldwell
and the ability to quote larger, more complex parts billc@gardnerweb.com
are just a few of the benefits this company has
realized by upgrading its inspection technology.
By April Lemois

112 On Display at IMTS

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When a Part Becomes Art
Gears are gorgeous on their own, but watching the interaction within a gear
set is especially intriguing. Read how this artist taught himself to make gears
in order to power the drive of an art installment.
Ive always considered gears to be works of
art. No matter the material or the surface finish,
the geometry of a gear, as well as its function, is a
beautiful thing to behold.
In all my years spent covering this industry,
Ive worked with art directors and designers
to incorporate gear imagery into the designs
produced to accompany articles. Sometimes
these photos were contributed by the subjects of
the feature to be augmented, and other times the
image was produced by an artist basically out
of whole cloth. This has always happened on a
screen, howeveruntil recently.
Jeff Norgord is creative director of Gardner
Business Media, (publisher of Modern Machine
Shop, Production Machining and MoldMaking
Technology, among other print magazines). Like
most designers I know, he creates art on his own
time as well. Not long ago, he was commissioned
by Cincinnatis Xavier University to create an
ambitious work of art focusing on business ethics
in a tangible, motion-based piece to be installed
in a public space on campus.
Everything about this artwork was challenging,
especially the gear sets Mr. Norgord had to
learn how to design and machine (sun gears,
carriers, planetary gears, all acrylic and cut via
laser machining) that would produce the desired
movements and tactical elements so integral
to the pieces message. The project originated
when Tim Penningtoneditor of Products
Finishing, another Gardner publicationbrought
his daughter, Emily, together with Jeff. She
was graduating magna cum laude from the
Williams College of Business at Xavier, and
her final assignment for the Cintas Institute for
Business Ethicsfrom which shed received a
scholarshipinvolved working with an artist of her
own choosing to devise a project on ethics.
The thing to know about Jeff is that hes
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absolutely relentless once he establishes a
goal. He began working with Emily to develop
concepts, first asking her to give him a list of
words having to do with business ethics. Her
choices included honesty, transparency and
cooperation; she came up with about 150 words
in all. The two wanted to convey the interaction
of these concepts in creating an ethical business
environment. They
began to think of a
wooden wheel with
the word Ethics at
its hub, surrounded
by concentric
rings printed with
the words theyd
developed so that,
when a knob was turned, the bands revolved
in opposite directions and different concepts
came into proximity with one another, depicting
the relative and changing nature of a workplace
inhabited by people who must interact. Colorful
inlaid tiles signified diversity. The resulting
artworknearly 4 feet in diameterhas a sealed
wooden exterior that contains the gear sets and
contributes to the mystery of the motion.
Ive seen gears used for artistic purposes
or transformed into art, but to watch Jeff teach
himself what he needed to know for gears to
drive the intended motion of this artwork was a
fascinating experience with impressive results
which are now on display at Xavier University.
Russ Willcutt
Editor
rwillcutt@mmsonline.com
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Every Process Has Its Place

With so many advances being made in gear grinding technology, where
does that leave processes such as hobbing, shaping and shaving? This
shop explains its machining methodology.
The Schafer Saga
M achining processes evolve over time, some
to a greater extent than others. In gear
manufacturing, grinding technology has shown
Launched in 1934, Schafer Industries is
headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, with
particular growth, with advances in both machines additional manufacturing facilities in that same
and abrasives delivering more stability, greater state as well as Ohio and Illinois. Bipin Doshi
material removal and longer tool life than ever is CEO and president, while Stan Blenke is its
before. In fact, with grinding machines now able to executive vice president and CFO. Growth has
produce a gear straight from a blank all the way to been achieved through wise capital investments
a finished product, some shops no longer perform and the acquisition of other companies that fit into
other traditional gear manufacturing processes, its strategic business plan for growth.
instead choosing to invest their time and capital in
grinding machines alone.
So where does that leave well-known and
long-used processes such as gear shaping,
shaving and hobbing? How have these techniques
improved over time, and what role do they play in
the current approach to manufacturing gears?
Schafer Gear Works is an advocate of advanced
grinding technologies, with a total of eight grinders
available, including five fully automated Gleason
machines. However, it still performs shaping,
shaving and hobbing when one or more of these
processes are called for in order to satisfy different
customer requirements or prepare to minimize
stock removal on their high-speed grinders. Due
to this, Schafer still relies on these traditional
processes for reasons having to do with materials,
geometries and time.
Supporting those processes with new
technology, workforce expertise and savvy
process engineering has helped the company
provide customers with greater latitude in terms
of the qualities of the finished part as well as the
cost based on the machining process chosen to
produce the gear or part in question.

This worm gear is made of brass, and the gear teeth were cut
by plunge hobbing.

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The company is divided between two divisions:
Schafer Gear Works and Schafer Driveline. It is
known as a manufacturer of precision gearing
of all sizes in addition to axles, transaxles,
transmissions, brake assemblies and other
components for various transportation-related
markets, which also include leisure and off-
highway.
Two of the companys facilities are devoted to
manufacturing gears and each site has its own
specialty. Small precision gears with tolerances
ranging to 0.0002 inch for the aerospace and
automotive industries are produced in Fort
Wayne, Indiana, while medium-size spur and
helical gearsas well as bevel and worm
gearsare manufactured in South Bend. Large-
diameter spur and helical gears (with grinding
ranging to AGMA Class 12) up to 60 inches in
diameter and face grinding as large as 8 inches
in diameter that have traditionally been produced
at the companys Rockford, Illinois, facility will
soon be machined in Roscoe due to Schafers
recent acquisition of Custom Gear & Machine Inc.
The South Bend location performs all of the
gear manufacturing processes listed so far, in
addition to EDM and Swiss turning. Since Schafer
is a high-production manufacturer, there is a great
deal of automation and the work flow is laid out
in such a way that each process naturally leads
An involute spline made of stainless steel, with spline teeth cut
by hobbing.
to the one that needs to occur next. In addition,
most shop employees are cross-trained so they
can operate multiple machines and/or cells,
leading to a high degree of flexibility on the floor.
Processes and Purposes
According to Steve Fussell, manufacturing
manager, the primary benefit of grinding for gear
production has historically been the improved
gear quality after heat treating to produce near-
perfect symmetry and micro-finish, which results
in very quiet gears. It is also necessary as a
finishing process after many roughing operations.
Nowadays, you can add increased material
removal thanks to more powerful machines,
the availability of automation and improved
wheel grades. Schafers two newest Gleason
grindersa 160 TWG for gears as large as 160
mm in diameter, and a 200 GX which grinds
gears ranging to 200 mm in diameterare fully
automated and meet quality standards of both
ISO 9001:2008 and AGMA 11. So its clear that
Schafer is taking full advantage of the latest
in grinding technologies. But how about other
traditional gear machining processeswhen are
they used, and why?
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HobbingWhen it comes to aggressive
material removal while machining spur and
helical gears as well as pinions, hobbing is the
gold standard, Mr. Fussell says. He describes
the hob he uses as a fully coated, multi-start
cutting tool that is cylindrical in shape with helical
cutting teeth. These teeth have gashes along
the length of the hob that aid in both cutting
and chip removal. A specialized form of milling,
hobbing can rough out gears at a speed that
enables Schafer to produce a million gears a
year quickly enough to avoid creating a backlog
in the machining process (a significant number
of Schafers gears are manufactured using
the standard hob, heat treat and finish grind
technique). At the same time, not everyone
requires a super-fine surface finish like that
produced for industries such as aerospace. In
such cases where a fine finish is not required,
perfectly functional pinions can be hobbed and
then heat treated without finish grinding.
Schafers approach to harnessing the power
of hobbing is to first equip each machine with
automation so that a single operator can run
as many as four machines. When hobbing is
conducted properly, the accuracy is such that
just 0.004 inch per flank of material is left to be
removed after heat treat, which the grinders can
handle in less than a 1-minute cycle on many
parts. To meet its production goals, Schafer has
15 to 20 hobbers running at a time, primarily
machining 8620, 4140 and 9310 alloy steels,
as well as bronze and stainless steel. Some
machines are equipped with a spline roller, which
basically crushes the spline into the pinion
shaft, and others have either automatic deburring
machines in the cell or make use of an option to
mount deburring tools directly onto the hobber.
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Hardened 8620 steel was used for this helical gear. Its teeth
were cut by hobbing and finished by gear grinding after heat
treating.
Despite its many attributes, however, hobbing
cant be used to cut gear teeth with an adjacent
shoulder due to the shape of the hob and
clearance issues, Mr. Fussell points out. This is
where shaping comes in.
ShapingThis machining process creates
gear teeth by using a cutter that is applied to the
workpiece in a continuous rotating movement
along the same plane. The four basic types
of cuttersdisks, hubs, shanks and helical
cuttersactually mimic the forms of the gears
theyre used to produce. The cutter is located on
one spindle and the workpiece revolves around
the tool on another spindle in a reciprocating
motion that duplicates the gear tooth form of
the cutter. The process is used to produce
internal gears, external gears and gear-pinion
arrangements. It is also the only way to address
the aforementioned situation when gear teeth
are located near an adjacent shoulder, which
no other process can produce competitively,
resulting in a higher cost per part than other
processes due to its somewhat complicated
tooling.
Both machine tools and cutting tools have
been greatly improved upon in recent years, Mr.
Fussell says. Newer CNC shapers and machine
This helical gear is made of a ductile iron casting, with gear
teeth cut by hobbing and then finished by shaving.
tools enable operators to cut at higher strokes per
minute and to run modified programs to minimize
cycles. The cutting tools hold an edge much
longer than they once did thanks to stronger
materials and newly developed coatings.
Still, shaping is a slower process than
hobbing, requiring creative ways of getting as
many gears as possible across the machine.
The solution, due to the limits of the process
technology, involves training an operator to run
multiple machines. With a total of eight shapers
on hand in South Bend, Schafer has worked to
train a single operator to oversee five or
six running machines. The slightly slower
cycle times are what make it possible for one
operator to load and unload so many machines
at once.
ShavingWhereas shaping is a roughing
operation, gear shaving is a finishing process The large gear in this helical assembly is made of ductile
that corrects errors in index, helical angle, tooth iron, and the small gear is made of hardened 8620 steel. The
finished small gear is pressed into a large gear blank, and then
profile and eccentricity. It can remove the majority
large gear teeth are cut by hobbing and then finished
of the errors often found in hobbed or shaped
by shaving.
gears. As its name implies, in shaving, the cutting
tool rides across a gears surface and between Continued Improvement
its teeth to continuously remove tiny shavings After a season of heavy investments, both
of metal, providing a smooth surface finish and in terms of capital equipment and business
therefore quieter gear sets. The process also acquisitions, Schafer Gear Works plans to
increases a gears load-carrying capacity as well continue streamlining operations and learning
as its service life, since a smooth surface protects about the latest technologies that will enable
the gear from spalling, and wear between mated them to continue to prosper, add capabilities
parts is minimized. and enter new markets. According to Mr. Blenke,
The cutting tool used in rotary gear shaving the company is generally making its strategic
operations is made of high-speed steels, plans quite a few years in advance so theyll be
hardened and ground. Factors affecting tool life prepared for upcoming changes. Many of them
include the condition of the parts coming off the have to do with investing in connectivitya few
hobber. Some shaving cutters can process as of their Gleason machine tools are connected
many as 4,000 gears between sharpenings, and to the OEMs service technicians at present,
they are generally resharpened about 10 times. and Schafer's impression of the technology is
Remembering a time not that long ago when highly favorableimproving quality control, as it
shavers were relatively rudimentary, Mr. Fussell recently did by purchasing a Gleason 300GMS
says new CNC shavers show improvements P gear inspection system; and cross-training
both in their ease of use and their machining employees for a flexible and agile workforce.
capabilities. Progressive diagonal cutting
is another helpful process, which takes the
approach of moving the cutter across the gear
tooth, providing the operator with more versatility
to make profile adjustments.

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Next-Generation
Gear Finishing
Vibratory finishing, centrifugal barrel finishing and turbo-abrasive
machining are the three top techniques for finishing gears, improving
performance and extending service life.

problem-solving customer challenges.

D ave Davidson has surface finishing in his
DNA. His manufacturing beginnings trace
to the 1970s working in a longstanding family
business that manufactured wooden shoe pegs
used for tumble-polishing small plastic items
using steam-era machinery.
To get a leg up on the technology, Mr.
Davidson, who is now retired but remains active
as a consultant in the industry, joined the Society
of Manufacturing Engineers' Burr, Edge and
Surface Technology division. And with the help
of SME mentors, he developed a line of abrasive
and polishing products as well as new mass
finishing processes for barrel, vibratory and
centrifugal finishing systems. He is a master at
That includes gear-making. Depending on the
particular application, Mr. Davidson describes
three mass-finishing methodologies for producing
surface finishes on gears that contribute to
improved performance and extended service life.
They are:
Vibratory FinishingConventional and
predominant, the familiar vibratory bowls or
tubs come in small or large sizes and have
been around for decades. There is a relatively
recent wrinkle in vibratory finishing, chemically
assisted vibratory finishing, which uses specially
formulated chemical compounds along with
non-abrasive media to produce a conversion

Isotropic finishing can have a dramatic impact

on gear performance and service life, so much
so that some racing teams disassemble stock
gear sets and components and send them out
to be isotropically finished for the perfor-
mance and extended service life benefits.
(Photo courtesy of Mark Riley, BV Products.)

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coating on gears and similar components. This
makes it possible to develop level surfaces with
micro-finish surface attributes. This technology
is especially applicable to automotive gear
train systems and engine components such as
camshafts and crankshafts, and is widely seen
among racing teams to acquire performance
advantages.
Centrifugal Barrel FinishingThis high-
energy method is a mechanically accelerated
means for producing edge contour and isotropic
micro-finishes on gears. This method is used
by a variety of gear manufacturers and high-
performance racing teams to improve the surface
finish and endurance of gear sets. It is also
capable of producing low micro-inch finishes
to improve load-bearing qualities of mating
surfaces and to develop beneficial compressive
stress and cold-hardening properties useful to
highly stressed parts. A sequence of processes
(analogous to roughing, finishing and polishing)
is often used to develop highly finished surfaces.
The high centrifugal forces and speed of this
process achieve high-level surface finishes in
short cycle times.
One user, Mr. Davidson recalls, pulled racing
transmissions after each event for centrifugal
finishing, only to find afterward that gear sets
were lasting an entire season.
A note here about isotropic surface finishes for
gears. Isotropic finishing, Mr. Davidson says, is a
technical term used to distinguish surface finish
patterns that are random and non-directional in Gear before (top) and after (bottom) turbo abrasive
nature. This is in contrast to surfaces developed machining (TAM). (Photo courtesy of Michael Massarsky,
by all common machining and grinding methods, Turbo Finish Corp.)
characterized by Gaussian peak-and-valley
distributions parallel to each other that manifest a Turbo-Finish or Turbo-Abrasive Machining
positive skewed surface with surface peaks and This is the next-generation gear-finishing
asperities predominating the surface profile, method, according to Mr. Davidson, who
he says. advises and assists Turbo Finish Corp. of Barre,
By this definition, all mass finishing methods Massachusetts, developer of turbo-abrasive
could be said to be isotropic in nature. The machining (TAM). Not wholly machining and not
process outlined above, however, has been wholly finishing, one of the properties separating
optimized to consistently produce gear surface TAM from vibratory or centrifugal gear finishing is
finishes that will improve overall operational that it is a dry method using no fluid media. Parts
performance and extend service life. are fixtured on a spindle, similar to a horizontal

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A better understanding of gear-finishing options will add to
performance levels and service life. (Photo courtesy of Mark
Riley, BV Products.)
machining center, and rotated at speeds ranging
from 500 to 2,000 rpm, fully enveloped in an
abrasive media cloud. Highly refined surfaces
can be developed when a secondary operation
utilizing dry polishing soft granulates, treated
with fine polishing materials occurs as a follow-
up to the abrasive deburring, contouring and
smoothing operation.
Once youve got abrasive particles impinging
the part at that level of force, youre creating a
shot-peening effect without creating shot-peening
surfaces, Mr. Davidson says.
From an environmental perspective, that
TAM produces these effects in a waterless, dry
operation is an added advantage. Unlike most of
the other mass-finishing methods, TAM produces
no wet-waste discharge effluent that requires
treatment or remediation.
Admittedly, TAM investment is more on the
capital equipment level, but users can create
edge contours and other surface finishes very
rapidlywith 60- to 120-second cycles in many
casesand machines can accommodate large
gears in the 48-inch diameter range that would
make vibratory or centrifugal finishing inefficient,
if not impossible.
According to Jim Riley of BV Products, a
surface improvement technologies specialist
based in Victoria, Australia, the advantage and
benefit feature sets most commonly attributed to
these types of isotropic finishing are:
Performance Benefits
Reduced friction
Increased part durability
Improved corrosion resistance
Reduced wear
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Reduced lubrication requirements and cost
Improved oil retention
Reduced contact and bending fatigue
Improved pitting resistance
Reduced vibration and noise attenuation
Reduced applied torque requirements
Improved surface finish uniformity (part-to-
part, feature-to-feature and lot-to-lot)
High-quality, micro-finished surfaces
Reduced Friction Benefits
Increased fuel economy
Reduced contact fatigue
Increased power density
Lower operating temperature
Extended mean time between maintenance
overhauls
Reduced maintenance costs
Eliminated break-in
Extended component life
Reduced metal debris
Reduced part failures
Minimized overheating
Many gears and gear sets in a variety of
industries remain subject to fatigue, fracture
and wear, Mr. Davidson says. Such parts
can gain substantial improvements in life and
performance, from alterations to their overall
surface texture. Improvements in overall
smoothness, load-bearing ratio, surface
profile skewness and isotropicity can, in many
instances, improve life and performance and cut
operational costs dramatically. Manufacturers
that have not subjected their parts to an analysis
to determine the potential benefits of this kind of
processing may be making parts that are not all
that they can be.
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The elimination of backlogs, increased throughput, and the ability to quote
larger, more complex parts are just a few of the benefits this company has
realized by upgrading its inspection technology.
E very gear manufacturing company welcomes
growth, but it comes with challenges. They
include investing in new equipment to meet
capacity, hiring skilled operators if necessary and
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For Triumph Gear Systems-Macomb, these
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Repositioning this large gear casing for the
transmission of a helicopter rotor system on the old
CMM was very time consuming, causing a production
bottleneck. With the new Global Advantage 15.30.10
from Hexagon, setups are simplified and handling
time is slashed.
came at a time when the company was tripling its
workspace, so space wasn't a problem.
Triumph discovered a host of benefits,
including saving 20-24 hours per assembly of
the large helicopter component the CMM was
primarily purchased to measure, the ability to
take on new work with more complex assemblies
than before, and the elimination of a backlog in its
inspection department.
Measuring Growth
Over the last 40 years, the Michigan-based
company has built a solid reputation for its
expertise in machining precision gears for
the aerospace industry. In the past decade it
has expanded the business to include much
larger components such as housings and
subassemblies. Today, Triumph Gear produces
approximately 28,800 parts annually.
To facilitate recent growth, the company set
about searching for a CMM that would meet
all of its criteria, beginning with a much larger
workspace and high-precision measurement
capabilities for increasingly complex parts. The
measurement solution also needed to be versatile
so that it could verify a range of parts. While
the existing CMM was capable of inspecting
Triumphs newest componenta large gear
casing for the transmission of a helicopter rotor
systemit clearly needed more travel in the
X-axis of the machine. Historically, to measure
the part, the operator would lay it on one side,
measure it, flip it 180 degrees about the Y axis,
then measure the other side, causing a quality
control bottleneck. In an attempt to speed things
Triumph Gears new Hexagon CMM has enabled the company
up, the inspection team began duplicating
to quote larger parts of greater complexity than it was able to
programs and part setup, actually causing further bid on in the past.
delays in output while their CNC machines sat
idle. involved. He says that, of the roughly 500
The solution came in the form of a different part numbers the company currently
Global Advantage 15.30.10 from Hexagon produces, about one third require quality
Manufacturing Intelligence of North Kingstown, inspection.
Rhode Island. This advanced CMM package With less than 1 percent of parts returned to the
met Triumphs requirements for accuracy and metrology department, manufacturing intelligence
speed, and it included features such as thermal is paving the way for precision manufacturing.
compensation, advanced software and a high- In order for us to maintain credibility with our
performance analog scanning probe. This customers, we need accuracy and repeatability.
specific model has the highest-performing drives Efficiency is important, but not if it jeopardizes
of the entire product line, with top acceleration our quality, Mr. Farr says. We are very confident
to 4.3 meters per second squared, for maximum in the accuracy of our programs and our overall
measuring throughput. ability to inspect parts.
Once the machine was installed, he began
Size Matters modifying the companys existing program,
Robert Farr is the CMM manager at Triumph reducing the handling time by roughly four hours
Gear. He points out that Triumph Gears need per assembly. The helicopter gear casing no
for accuracy and repeatability is essential to its longer needed to be rotated, enabling faster
success, notably because several parts have setups, runtimes and change control times.
tight tolerance requirements of 0.001 inch. The extra runtime also enabled the metrology
The complexity of the housings the company department to keep up with internal demands.
manufactures calls for more precise alignments Overall, Triumph saved roughly 20-24 hours per
due to the size increase of the gears and axles assembly of its helicopter component with the

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The Hexagon CMM includes features such as thermal
compensation, advanced software and a high-performance
analog scanning probe.
new implementation.
No longer at maximum capacity, the company
is able to take on additional work and more
complex assemblies. The new CMM and probe
changers allow us to use multiple probe build-
ups while maintaining efficient runtimes, Mr. Farr
says. We originally purchased the CMM to make
inspection of the gear casing more efficient, but it
also allowed us to run multiple jobs that required
the larger inspection capability. In the past we
had to schedule our larger jobs back-to-back.
Today, we have doubled the overall capacity to
inspect parts, which shows in our throughput.
Operational Efficiency
Triumph relies on inspection software to handle
the growing complexity of its parts. Mr. Farr feels
that PC-DMIS inspection software is ideal for the
first-time programmer to learn on, but also offers
high-end capabilities at a novice level.
One of the benefits of the software is the
information you have with the cursor position,
he says. When editing inspection routines, the
system tracks your current workplane, pre-hit/
retract, probe tip angle and alignment. In other
software programs I have used, you had to
manually recall without inserting code into your
program, which sometimes caused mistakes.
Running operations more efficiently is important
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to the Triumph team. By incorporating PC-DMIS
scripting to input serial number, shop number
and lot number into one interface, Mr. Farr is able
to create a repeatable process for a more fluid
user experience. When it comes to hiring and
training new recruits, the softwares user-friendly
interface enables him to hire someone new to
the industry and train them to effectively use it.
Alternatively, locating a user who is proficient in
PC-DMIS software is not difficult, as the software
is so widely known in the metrology field.
Another example involves the companys
efforts to alleviate bottlenecks in its supply
chain. Triumph uses graphical reporting to
show the location of component alignments that
may be hard to duplicate on a machine. For
example, the company provides a report to show
a bore package at a best low fit situation. In
addition, the report also states where the current
bushings are located, enabling the supplier to
machine the bushings back to the best fit bore
package. Providing inspection reports and visual
information enables the supplier to produce parts
faster and without errors.
The company also creates special reports
for its customers based on their engineering
specifications. In some instances, a customer
will want to see the location of surface features in
relation to the rest of the part to ensure accuracy,
 In response to increased production demands, Triumph Gear
basically tripled the size of its workspace, moving its CMM lab
to the new area with plenty of room for the new Hexagon CMM.

Farr has mapped a five-year plan for the quality

while others may only request 3D coordinate
point data. Whatever the case, the team has the
essential tools for generating customized and
comprehensive PC-DMIS inspection reports.
Looking to the Future
Triumph Gear is strategically positioning itself
for continued growth. The companys recent
expansion allows for the accommodation of new
machines and equipment in all departments,
from milling to metrology. Following suit, Mr.
control operations that includes hiring a full-time
programmer and two more inspectors so the
company can increase its machine capacity by
80 percent. As for future technology acquisitions,
he will be on the lookout for smart solutions that
help enhance quality, reduce internal scrap and
rework and increase inspection throughput.
If youve got a good quality department, they
can reach out to engineering and manufacturing
and catch mistakes as they are happening, Mr.
Farr says. Quality control, if you do it right, can
have a major impact on the overall business.

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Gear Grinder Designed for Large-Scale Production Quality

Liebherr Gear Technology Inc., Booth N-6930
The Liebherr LGG 280 gear-grinding machine is designed The machine enables the application of undulations
to reduce grinding times for twist-free profile grinding specifically to gear wheel flanks for noise optimization.
and generating grinding of workpieces ranging to 280 The ability to produce submicron-range waviness
mm in diameter. The machine is the second in the LGG provides a range of optimization options. The touchscreen
series and is designed to deliver consistent, large-scale user interface is said to ease programming and machine
production quality in automotive applications, including operations and includes an integrated webcam.
conical gearing. The machine enables users to produce Liebherr Gear Technology Inc. | 734-429-7225 |
smaller gears with greater load-carrying capability. liebherr.com
As part of a production line, the machines one-table
solution is said to promote higher quality throughout
production with one clamping fixture and one geometry.
This approach promotes reliable micron-range finish
quality for gear-noise optimization.
The grinding head supports rotation speeds ranging
to 10,000 rpm and features 35 kW of spindle power,
enabling high cutting speeds and feed rates. According
to the company, the machine can utilize the potential of
the 3M abrasive Cubitron II. Other features include an
HSK-C100 toolholder for changing the grinding arbor and
a second grinding head featuring a small worm diameter
for collision-critical parts.

Turn-Mill Performs Six-Sided Machining

without Interruption
Starrag USA Inc., Booth S-8696
Bumotecs s191FTLR seven-axis turn-mill from Starrag is
designed to start with a plain bar and machine parts such
as aircraft pinion regulators complete in a single setup.
The machine is able to perform six-sided machining,
including the generation of an outer ring gear and pin for
the inner ring gear, without interruption to the cycle.
The turn-mill uses its full-size subspindle and FANUC
linear motor drive to turn, hob, grind, surface finish
and mill aerospace fuel injectors, from small, high-mix
batches to large-volume serial production.
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Gear Center Designed for Mass Production
Kapp Technologies, Booth N-7036
Kapp Niles offers the KX 100 Dynamic gear center
designed for mass production of external planetary
gears ranging to 125 mm. According to the company, its
independent twin pick-up work spindles provide optimum
productivity, reducing tooling setup time. Work arbor
change and verification is automated and grinding worm
change is semi-automated. The KX 100 will be exhibited
as a turnkey solution with basket stacker automation
and tooling. An integrated pallet conveyor offers a solution
for space and cost savings. The Kapp Niles machines are
complemented by measuring machines from Penta Gear
Metrology, with the larger custom measuring machines
from R&P Metrology.
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Collaborative Robots Deliver
Flexibility to Shop Floor
I n the 1990s, Task Force Tips, a manufacturer
of firefighting equipment, started integrating
robots with its machine tools. These robots,
however, were dedicated to working only on one
machine and could not be redeployed to other
tasks. In need of more flexibility on the shop floor,
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the company installed four collaborative robots
from Universal Robots USA Inc. (East Setauket,
New York). Not only did these robots pay for
themselves in just 34 days, they also improved
product quality.
CEO Stewart McMillan still remembers his
father looking at him and asking, Are you sure
about this? when the family-owned company
The auto industry has used robots for years,
because it is the same process every day, year-
round. With Universal Robots, automation can be
used flexibly and change day by day, says CEO
Stuart McMillan. His company mounted a UR5 robot
to a table on wheels and now rolls it between tasks
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located in Valparaiso, Indiana, bought its first CNC
machine 40 years ago. It was a huge step, but
giving people the proper tools to do their jobs is
essential to being productive, Mr. McMillan says.
That line of thinking helped him recognize that
the shops robots had limited capabilities because
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Automation Specialist Adam
Hessling says he can turn on
the Universal Robots controls
and teach the robot a few basic
waypoints and create a very
basic program in a matter of
minutes. However, he says
there are several layers in the
control if a programmer wants
to go deeper. For instance, he
could control the robot entirely
through scripting from a third-
party system, whether it be an
HMI or another PLC.
of their dedication to just one machine. So, what
happens is the machine wears out first, and now
you have a $100,000 robot that you cannot do
anything with, Mr. McMillan explains.
After hearing about collaborative robots that
could be used in a much more flexible manner,
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the company decided to explore

the technology by getting a Uni-
versal Robots demo in the shop.
According to Production Super-
visor Cory Mack, his colleagues
were trying to program it and
make it work within minutes of
its arrival.
The Universal Robot is so
simple and non-intimidating that
our programmers were already
in the mindset of I dont need
any guidance; I can do this on
my own. It was almost like a
PlayStation video game, where
they could pick up the controller
and figure it out without reading
the rules to the game, he says.
This led Task Force Tips to
install one UR10 robot and two
UR5 robots to tend CNC
machines. Another UR5 is
mounted to a table on wheels
and moved between tasks. The
UR robots can work collabora-
tively right alongside employees
due to a built-in safety feature
that causes them to automatically
stop operating when they
encounter obstacles in their
routea scenario Mr. McMillan
calls a fundamental paradigm
shift. In the past, a major imped-
iment to using robots was the
required security fencing around
the machine, he says. With the
UR robots, all the guarding is
unnecessary. Employees can
roll the table with the robot right
up to a machine and teach it to
load parts in a matter of minutes.
This is especially useful for
the production-cell layout at
Task Force Tips, where opera-
tors run multiple machines simul-
taneously around the clock.
Since acquiring the robots, staff-
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The hand-off between

the two UR5 robots
looks very impressive,
Mr. Hessling says, but
it was deceivingly easy
to do.

because it only takes about one hour per oper-
ator shift to operate the robot, which includes
laying out parts and staging the robot, Mr. Mack
says. This translates to 21 hours of unassisted
run time for the robot. In just 34 days, it pays for
itself, he says. As an additional benefit, the robot
saves seven hours each shif t for a machine
operator to do something else productive. No
automation solution has resulted in layoffs, just
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In application, the two UR5 robots working in takes out the complete-machined part and places
tandem have helped optimize hose coupling it on the outbound conveyor. From there, an
production in a two-machine cell. As blanks arrive operator places the parts onto anodizing racks,
on an inbound conveyor, the first robot uses vision completing the cycle.
guidance to identify and pick up the blanks before The process looks very impressive, but it is
inserting them into the first milling machine. The deceivingly easy to do, says Automation Special-
robot then takes out a half-machined part and ist Adam Hessling. With a background in CNC
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cameras coordinates. Since Modbus registers
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is actually hardwired together.
During production, when the UR5 places the
unmachined part in the lathe, the robots force
detection identifies if the part is misshapen, has
burrs or if there are chips in the chuck jaws. For
example, when the robot tries to reach the set
waypoint for placement and there is an obstruc-
tion that causes the force on the end of the arm
to exceed 50 newtons (which Mr. Hessling pro-
grammed as the threshold), it applies an air blast
to clean away the debris. If this does not clear
the debris after several attempts, the robot tells
the machine to execute a chuck-wash cycle,
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wash, a popup appears on the robots touch-

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debris from the chuck jaws and press continue.

Smarter.
If the issue persists, another popup halts the
program entirely. The operator can then diagnose
the problem, fix it and restart production.
According to Mr. Hessling, the robot fixes a
failure-to-load issue about three or four times
an hour, which helps eliminate downtime. The
operator needs only to intervene about once per
shift, sometimes not at all, he says, explaining
that the robots are not at fault; it is just the nature
of the chips created from machining aluminum.
Freeing personnel from machine tending has
also played an important role in increased prod-
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are not worried about keeping a machine running,
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new ideas and better ways to improve our pro-
duction, he says.
Mr. McMillan agrees: When you set people
loose with a way to reduce the mundane labor
in their daily job, they find those ways. There
have been multiple days in which Ive come in
and seen the robot somewhere else in the shop
that surprised to me. I do not see our possibili-
ties being limited on places we can use these.
The next UR robot application at will likely be
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Grinding Machine Increases
Tool Suppliers Production
I n order to stay competitive in their industries,
manufacturers must always be on the lookout
for new ways to provide value while keeping cost
to a minimum. That is one of the duties of David
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PROBLEM Extra setup caused production
bottleneck
SOLUTION Junkers Lean Selection allround
universal cylindrical grinding machine
RESULTS Cost-effective upgrade in
technology, decreased setup times
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Zurowski, Dihart carbide group leader at Komet
of America Inc. (Schaumburg, Illinois). When the
company needed to produce complex tools at
higher production rates, he knew its existing
grinders could not keep up with the task. By
investing in a universal cylindrical grinding machine
from Junker (Elgin, Illinois), Komet was able to
decrease production time while providing the
same, high-quality products.
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Having only one simple setup to grind each part
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full-line supplier of drilling, boring, reaming, thread-
ing and milling tools. With a total workforce of
1,600, the privately held company manufactures
reamers, cutting rings and rapid-set heads with
carbide and cermet blades. Led by President and
CEO Jan Pflugfelder, Komet of America and its
140 employees are dedicated to the design and
manufacturing of special indexable tools, poly-
crystalline diamond tools and reamers.
With a growing demand for complex tools,
Komet needed to manufacture at higher production
rates without sacrificing quality. The company
determined that its existing grinders could no longer
keep up with effectively producing its multi-step
tools. In particular, tools with a flat diameter and
back taper caused a major production bottleneck
because the grinders required an extra setup to
adjust the table to match the angle.

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See the SMART-III technology at IMTS. The series is now available in a multi-functional two-
or three-axes CNC surface grinder. The SMARTs PC-based control, combined with a user-friendly
conversational TaskLink function, makes it easy to learn and operate. CNC experience is not
necessary. The SMART control features a highly efficient, constant-contact auto dressing function
and variable spindle speeds with constant surface speed control that reduces initial dress time from
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Junkers customized gap-

detection software was developed
to grind Dihart reamers, shown
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company, Junkers Lean Selection allround stood we believe that we will have fewer limitations
out because it offers a rigid B axis with 0.0001- having one wheel per side and more clearance
degree resolution that is capable of grinding all for our complex tools. The machine was also
the tapers Komet needs to manufacture its tools. available in a short delivery time and at an appeal-
Along with the crucial B axis, the flexibility of the ing price point, he says.
grinding machine set Junker apar t from the In addition to the proper mechanical features,
competition, the company says. the company sought a custom-designed grind-
Mr. Zurowski says Komet selected a grinder ing program to reduce the amount of air grinding.
with a choice of two grinding spindles because The carbide inserts ground on each reamer are
set at common intervals
a l o n g t h e d i a m e te r,
meaning the grinding
surface is interrupted.
Af ter several discus-
sions about the prob-
When the coolant becomes a Liquid Tool.
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using its gap detection
acoustic sensor to con-
trol the workhead
speed. Now, when the
grinding spindle detects
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until the next carbide
inser t is detected. At
each insert, the work-
head slows to the
g r i n d s e t t i n g t h e n
speeds up again to the
air setting when fin-
ished grinding. This is
designed to ensure the
best cycle time.
I n A p r i l 2015, th e
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Komet and was up and
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This is the Junker

JUWOP/LS graphical
and conversational
programming page.
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equipped with the
JUWOP/LS pro-
gramming system,
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efficiently.

around 30 to 35 minutes, he says. The grinders
flexible design not only provides significant
s av i n g s i n s etu p ti m e, b u t i t a l s o re d u c e d
running time by 5 to 10 minutes per part. The
freely programmable B a xis enables the
operator to grind continuously without having
to change out the grinding wheel.
Despite the improved run time and setup time,
Komet detected a final inefficiency after instal-
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order to grind multiple features, making wheel-
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improve change-over time and prevent potential concentricity of less than 2 microns. Now that
quality issues when mounting a new wheel, the system is installed, the company says it is
the company imple me nte d Junke rs thre e - experiencing a further reduction in setup times,
point grinding wheel mounting system, which i m p r o v e d g r i n d i n g t i m e s a n d e v e n b e t te r
re d u c e s w h e e l c h a n g e - ove r ti m e s to l e s s part quality.
t h a n 20 m i n u te s a n d g u a r a n te e s a w h e e l From our experience in grinding reamers and
the way we set up and run the Junker, our finished
Erwin Junker Machinery Inc., call 847-488-0406 product is the same quality despite a reduction
or visit junker-group.com. in production time, which is what we were look-
ing for, Mr. Zurowski
says.
Komet uses the same
grinding wheels as it
previously did, but the
company says that setup
is simpler, change-over
is faster, and grind time
is reduced. The machine
is equipped with the
JUWOP/LS program-
ming system, in which
th e g ra p h i c a ll y s u p -
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Mazak Corp. (Florence, Kentucky), and ship them
complete by 6 p.m. that same day.
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Doctors and facilities use

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At the heart of the shops part-production
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Mazak machines, the bulk of which are Vertical
Center Nexus (VCN) vertical machining centers
along with an Integrex 200S multitasking machine.
The company recently added two full five-axis
Vertical Center Universal (VCU) 400A 5X VMCs
to efficiently process apertures used in a new
type of proton-radiation-beam therapy.
Customer orders populate the companys
servers with incoming orders throughout the
day, and the sof tware tracks each patients
device through manufacturing, invoicing
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open and allocates job files accordingly. The
sof tware also displays real-time job status,
tracks part material back to the foundr y and
tracks who machined it on which Mazak. It also
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.decimal ships about 100 to 200 patient-specific

jobs per day. On any given day, the shop has no
way of knowing exactly what its orders will be until
they are received.

says. The apertures/filters are made from brass,

acrylics, copper, aluminum and wax, with brass
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because the Mazaks enable parts to be produced thinner areas allow more of it to pass through to
well within Six Sigma requirements, Mr. Sweat the patient.

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Variable-angle-beam, divergent-corrected-type nearby healthy tissues from receiving high doses

apertures spurred the companys latest venture of radiation.
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torsional rigidity and positioning accuracy. The
tables tilt +95 degrees/-45 degrees in the B axis
and rotate 360 degrees in the C axis, and they
can accommodate workpieces weighing as much
as 440 pounds.
While it is a small footprint machining center,
the VCU provides .decimal with travels measuring
19.88 by 15.74 by 17.12 inches (505 by 400 by
435 mm) in the X, Y and Z axes, respectively. A
high-speed rapid traverse rate of 945 ipm (24
meters per minute) in the machines three linear
axes help reduce the shops non-cut times.
Aperture part cycle times at the shop typically
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several hours, depending on part size and surface
complexity. While the shop tries to optimize cycle
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IMTS 2016
The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) is scheduled to take
place September 12-17, 2016, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. The
show, which draws hundreds of thousands of buyers and sellers from over 112
countries and more than 2,000 exhibiting companies, is organized into pavil-
ions covering Abrasive Machining/Sawing/Finishing; Additive Manufacturing;
Controls and CAD/CAM; EDM; Fabricating and Lasers; Gear Generation; Machine
Components/Cleaning/Environmental; Metal Cutting; Quality Assurance;
and Tooling and Workholding Systems. IMTS is organized by AMTThe
Association For Manufacturing Technology. The following pages represent a
taste of the technologies attendees can expect to find on the show floor.

VMC FOR 4+1, FIVE-A XIS
APPLICATIONS
CHEVALIER MACHINERY INC., BOOTH S-8986
Chevalier Machinery will exhibit its new QP5X-400, The maximum workpiece dimension is 15.7" in
a high-speed VMC featuring five-axis simultane- width and length by 13.7" in height. The machine
ous or 4+1 axis positioning applications.
The standard version is equipped with a two-
axis, 12.6" rotary trunnion table, with a table load
of 220 lbs and an A-axis accuracy rate of 10".
features XYZ-axis travels of 20.5" 15.8" 15".
The spindle includes a large-diameter, Big-Plus
spindle design that uses four-piece, P4-class,
high-precision, angular-contact ball bearings to
increase spindle rigidity and maintain a degree
of accuracy during high-speed machining.
The machine provides fast interpolation, with
a high-linear speed of 1,417 ipm on the X and Y
axes, and 1,181 ipm on the Z axis. The 40-taper
spindle provides 25 hp and maximum speed of
10,000 rpm. It is also equipped with 12,000- and
15,000-rpm spindle-speed options. The series
includes a 30+1 tool capacity, a FANUC 0iMF
CNC for 4+1 applications, linear-circular-helical
interpolation and a Manual Guide 0i, and a 10.4"
color LCD monitor.
Chevalier Machinery Inc., call 800-243-8253
or visit chevalierusa.com.

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FIVE-A XIS VMC
FOR LARGE-SIZE MACHINING
MIGHTY USA INC. - VIPER, BOOTH S-9441
Mighty USA introduces its Viper PG5 five-axis
gantry machine, which is a high-wall, gantry-style,
simultaneous five-a xis double-column VMC
designed for large-size and heavy workpieces.
The machine has a built-in 60-hp, 15,000-rpm,
HSK A100 spindle and a maximum table load of
115,000 lbs. Table sizes are available as large as
137" 236", and German INA roller linear guide-
ways on all three linear axes are designed to
provide high rigidity and fast feed rates, the
company says.
The machine uses Hiwin C3-class ballscrews.
The X and Z axes use dual ballscrews, and all
linear axes use ballscrews with cooling systems
to avoid heat generation caused by ballscrew
movement. According to the company, ballscrew
cooling promotes dynamic three-axes performance
by maintaining a constant temperature.
Mighty USA Inc. - Viper, call 800-664-4489
or visit mightyviper.com.

TOOL INCORPORATES SQUARE,

SINGLE-SIDED INSERT WITH
INCREASED CLEARANCE ANGLES
ISCAR METALS INC., BOOTH W-1800
Iscar presents the Fast Feed Quad (FFQ4) mills
for high-feed and rough milling applications. The

THE NEXT GENERATION OF GRINDERS ARE HERE.

TAIYO KOKI rst developed the vertical grinding machine in 1991.
Since then we have delivered over 1,600 vertical grinders worldwide,
leading the way by providing world class precision,
new process innovation and protable productivity gains for our customers.

+ Simple design & + Automatic Chuck Change

Reasonable price.
+ Productivity improvement
by Automatic Tool
Changer (ATC) with 6
different grinding wheels.
Vertical Mate 85
Vertical Mate 85
Capability at S-8900
850L600 mm
(ACC) system pushes
productivity to new levels.
+ The three position ACC
enables different
processes to run at
Two-grinding stations
simultaneously.
+ Spindle run time is
PGV-3 maximized because the
Capability parts is changed outside
150L100 mm while the machine is
running.

TAIYO KOKI CO., LTD.

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insert with increased clearance angles (both radial
and axial) and four cutting edges. The FFQ4
features a 9-degree cutting edge angle for long
reach, and positive rake angle position for the
Machine Type: insert in the cutter body. According to the com-
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pany, this design supports enhanced performance
in terms of insert and tool life when milling difficult-
Drill/Tap
to-machine materials like austenitic stainless steel
Boring Mill
and high-temperature alloys.
Milling Machine Two new insert grades have been introduced:
grade IC1882 and grade IC5820. The IC882
features an AlTiN+TiN PVD coating. The IC5820
has a MTCVD alpha Al2O3 coating.
Iscar Metals Inc., call 877-294-7227 or visit
iscarmetals.com.

10-A XIS SWISS-TYPE LATHE

PERFORMS COMPLEX MACHINING
EFFICIENTLY
STAR CNC MACHINE TOOL CORP.,
BOOTH S-8874
Star CNC, a division of Star Micronics Co. Ltd.,
will introduce the SR-38 Type B, a 10-axis Swiss-
type automatic lathe for complex machining
operations. This addition to the companys prod-
uct line is said to be capable of machining complex,
large-diameter parts with high efficiency.
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In addition, Star CNC will introduce two other

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machines: the SV-20R and SR-32JII. Mitsubishis wire and sinker EDM machines,
Star CNC Machine Tool Corp., including the EA8PS and EA12PS. Both PS-series
call 516-484-0500 or visit starcnc.com. machines feature a new Z-axis design that uses
high-quality ballscrew and LM way components
SINKER EDMS OFFER HIGH-SPEED to ensure positioning accuracy during high-speed
JUMPING, THERMAL CONTROL jump machining.
MC MACHINERY SYSTEMS INC., The EA8PS sinker EDM is designed for tight-
BOOTH N-6815 tolerance applications, such as those in the die/
MC Machinery Systems will display a range of mold industry. A thermal displacement compen-
sation system and
Z-axis cooling mecha-
nism are said to improve
accuracy by tracking
Engineering precisely what you value and compensating for
machine temperature
changes. The EA12PS
Berthiez
Bumotec
Drries
Droop+Rein
The new is designed for medium-
size sinker needs.
ECOSPEED F 1540
Heckert
Scharmann
SIP MC Machinery
Starrag
TTL
WMW for machining aluminum structural parts Systems Inc., call
630-616-5920 or visit
mcmachinery.com.

DOUBLE-
COLUMN
GRINDER
DESIGNED
TO HANDLE
LARGE
COMPONENTS
OKAMOTO CORP.,
BOOTH N-6963

+87%
Performance increase
O kamotos ACC-32-
80CHiQ surface double-
due to new 200 hp spindle, column grinder is
30,000 rpm, 61 ft.lbf.
designed for high-
precision grinding of

- 30%
Faster production start
large components and
supports the high accu-
due to shorter installation racy and ef ficiency
directly on the factory oor.
needed for mold and
die production applica-
tions. The double-
Solutions for
column design and
Aerostructures construction withstands
12. - 17.9.2016, Chicago, South hall S-8696 www.starrag.com prolonged heavy-duty
gr inding conditions.
D o u b l e -V t a b l e way
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PRESENTING Systematically optimised proven elements
THE NEWLY DESIGNED
combined with newly developed components

such as the automatic cylinder correction system

KELLENBERGER and synchronous tailstock provide a contemporary

VARIA
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requirements of our customers.

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www.kellenberger.com 800-843-8801
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continued peak accuracy.

The grinder provides a consistently high
degree of flatness across the entire workpiece
surface. An exclusive reform mechanism auto-
matically adjusts for cross-slide wear without
CNC compensation. A shif t-plunge grinding
cycle supports fast, efficient stock removal, and
the machines multi-level grinding capability
enhances grinding flexibility. The standard 30-hp
s p i n d l e m oto r a n d 20 " d i a m e te r c o n c ave
grinding wheel are designed to handle tough
grinding requirements. MACHINE MONITORING
Features include a grinding wheel adapter, BOOSTS UPTIME
hydraulic overhead wheel dresser with dress MACHINEMETRICS INC., BOOTH N-7181
compensation, dresser stand with diamond tool, MachineMetrics will present its machine monitor-
automatic oil temperature regulator and spindle ing and manufacturing analytics software. The
speed controller. software automatically collects data from machines
The ACC-32-80CHiQs table size is 32" 80", and uses it to provide real-time visualizations
maximum pass width is 40", and maximum dis- and notifications.
tance under a standard wheel is 23.5". The software features real-time dashboards
Okamoto Corp., call 847-235-3500 with color coding that provide immediate data
or visit okamotocorp.com. to shopfloor employees. Detailed information

Something small is coming.

BOOTH 2217

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 TECHNOLOGY THAT
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can be displayed on tablets next to each machine WHIRLING MACHINE FOR

and enables operators to scrap parts or catego-
rize downtime. Downtime can then be displayed
on Pareto charts so significant problems can
be addressed.
The software uses historical analytics to enable
manufacturers to make informed decisions.
MachineMetrics Inc., call 413-341-5747
or visit machinemetrics.com.
REDUCED CYCLE TIMES
LEISTRITZ ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.,
BOOTH N-7061
Leistritz displays its LWN-90 whirling machine.
The machine produces precision worm gears
with reduced cycle times. According to the com-
pany, when implemented into a production envi-
ronment and paired with induction-hardening
equipment, the whirling
method decreases
thread rolling, milling

AUTOMATION and grinding while

resulting in high worm
ELEVATED. quality. The steel bed
a n d p ro g ra m m a b l e -
force tailstock, com-
b i n e d w i th f i ve -a x i s
interpolation, are the
foundation of the
machines performance.
The machine features
a 4,0 0 0 - r p m , 5 - k W
whirling spindle that
p ro d u c e s wo r m s o r
AUTOMATION SHOULD NOT BE AN AFTERTHOUGHT. various screw types with
outer diameters as large
At Murata Machinery, we take automation seriously. We dont
a s 2.5" a n d l e n g th s
simply add automation, and it is not an option that can be chosen.
ranging to 20". The com-
Automation is the central concept behind every machine we build. It is
pany uses a dry cutting
who we are, it is what we do. And after 80 plus years of excellence,
method of whirling that
it is what makes us the leader in high production automated turning
is said to be a clean
centers. More than just automation. This is Automation Elevated.
process.
Leistritz Advanced
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call 201-934-8262 or
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FANUC RoboCut-CiB
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 LASER SYSTEM SOLUTIONS from ROFIN

Laser Marking: Laser Welding: Laser Cutting Glass and Brittle Materials: Laser Cutting:
Direct, Permanent Track & Trace Scanner Welding System SmartCleaveFI Robotic-controlled Fiber Laser

Whether it's the powerful FL Series Fiber Lasers (up to 8 kW) for welding, cutting or surface
modification; the highly efficient diffusion-cooled CO2 Slab lasers for cutting three-
dimensional workpieces; or the versatile and innovative PowerLine F Laser Markers for
component traceability or day/night marking applications; ROFINs laser technology is
found in nearly every step of Production processes. Fast, precise, flexible, reliable and cost
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We Think Laser and we have been doing so for more than 40 years. With 55,000 and Cutting at IMTS
lasers providing innovative solutions based on our comprehensive range of products and Booth N-6613
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and surface treatment. When it comes to High-Quality Laser Systems, Think ROFIN.

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designed for high precision, fast rapid traverse
rates and expedited setups.
The series includes the C400iB, C600iB and
C800iB machines, the latter of which accom-
modates parts as heavy as 5,000 lbs and as large
as 49.2" 38.4" 11.8". All machines feature
positioning accuracy of 0.0002" and repeatability
Sump Cleaners
Cl Tramp Oil Removal Coolant Recycling Systems
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of 0.0001". The wire EDM column and lower arm
are fixed so the table and workpiece move rather
than the column.
The 3D Compensation Function reduces the
need for indicating-in workpieces, enabling the
operator to measure the flatness of the workpiece,
and reducing setup time.
Methods Machine Tools Inc., call 877-668-4262
or visit methodsmachine.com.
DUAL-COLUMN BAND SAWS
FOR FULL, PROFILE MATERIALS
DOALL CO., BOOTH N-7074
DoAll will demonstrate its line of Hercules dual-
column enclosed CNC band saws, which includes
DC-300CNC, DC-400CNC, DC-510CNC and
DC-750CNC models. The saws are designed to
provide versatile, efficient and accurate sawing
solutions for steel service centers, tool making,
high-end metalworking, machine shops and
fabrication shops. They are said to enable intricate
a n d p r e c i s e c u t s, a n d f u l l a u to m a ti o n fo r
Cleaners
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Eriez offers everything from drum top
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cleaners to remove coolant, sludge and
chips from your sump, then:
Filter the sludge and chips from the coolant
Return the filtered coolant to the sump,
or transports it for recycling or disposal
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h i g h - p r o d u c t i o n e n v i r o n m e n t s l i ke m e t a l be used for cutting solids, tubes and profile mate-

service centers.
The Hercules high-production, horizontal CNC
machines are efficient, automatic, hydraulically
controlled machines with multiple material feeds.
According to DoAll, the saw construction makes
it possible to cut a range of full and profile mate-
rials, including stainless and tool steel. The enclosed
band saws are intended for vertical cuts, and can
rial as large as 28" (700 mm) in diameter. Dual-
column machines can be used for a single cut or
serial production cutting. Operators can program
each cut to prolong blade life through servo-
controlled feed rates and blade torque monitoring.
The company is also displaying its StructurAll
dual column, dual swivel horizontal band saws;
and Olympia heavy-duty tube/pipe band saws.
DoAll Co., call
888-362-5572 or visit
doallsawing.com.

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Handtmanns PBZ HD
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The 3,000-rpm spindle
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Integrated chip management over the entire

machine length eases removal of high volumes
of chips generated in the machining process.
Other features include Siemens 840D SL control,
a tool magazine with 36 tool positions and an
integrated 400-mm-diameter saw blade.
The machining center supports interference-
free machining on all five sides of the part with a
single clamping including milling, sawing, drilling,
thread milling and cutting. It is equipped with an
integrated CNC-controlled clamping system for
reduced non-productive times, a variable number
of clamping vises and workholding fixtures with
integrated media supply. The machines use of a
dovetail clamping option also enables rapid change

KR AGILUS of heavy and long workholding fixtures. Custom-

The new master of speed
SMALL ROBOTS. robots for 6kg to
10kg payloads with an available reach of
700 to 1,100mm.
ers may choose between a clamping vises version
with a maximum workpiece cross-section of 800
300 mm, or a table version for profiles ranging
to 800 575 mm.
Handtmann A-Punkt Automation GmbH,
call 49 751 5079 0 or visit handtmann.de/
machining-centres.html?L=1.

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increases productivity.
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BELMONT EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES,
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BOOTH E-5025
requires low maintanence and can be installed
Belmonts SY series of high-speed CNC drilling
on the oor, ceiling, and wall to fully utilize
EDMs includes the SY-3030T with a paint-to-paint
production space.
design enabling multiple-machine setup. The
machine has an open height of 19.6" with X-, Y-
and W-axis travels measuring 11.8" 11.8" 19.6".
kukainfo@kukarobotics.com The work tank can fill up to 11.8" high, supporting
Visit Us in the North
1-800-459-6691 Building - Booth #6200 submersible applications.
The SY EDMs support automatic depth control,

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 GA M E
C1 Series Lathes with 3-Stack Turret and Tool Changer.

turning centers. Our all-new C1

W Simply Quality.
r
complex parts. Featuring a triple Made by Hwacheon.
stack turret with a tool changer, this
lathe holds up to 36 tools. Using a Made in Korea.
machine complex parts with
educed setups, tooled Hwacheon Machinery America, Inc.
up for multiple jobs, ideal for short Technical Center
run jobs and increased pr . 555 Bond St., Lincolnshire, IL 60069
But dont just take our word for it. Tel. 847-573-0100
BOOTH S-8119

Smart Solutions for Perfect Machining.

Deep and Wide Product Line

www.hwacheonusa.com
IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

multitasking abilities, three-step control of EDM circuit, which supports a complete hole and helps
parameters, Ethernet connectivity, USB support to eliminate back wall strikes.
for transferring data, and conversational G and Belmont Equipment & Technologies,
M code programming. Other features include call 800-356-4811 or visit belmont4edm.com.
linear glass scales and the ability to interface with
ancillary devices such as rotary and tilt/rotary GAGE CHECKS PART SURFACE
tables, indexers, and workpiece handling systems. FINISH BEFORE REMOVAL FROM
Available options include a 12-position automatic THE MACHINE
guide changer and Break Through Detection BLUM-NOVOTEST INC., BOOTH E-5527
Blum-Novotest presents
the TC64-RG, a surface
roughness gage
designed for checking
part surface finish
before removing the part
from a CNC machining
center. The gage can
accurately determine a
parts roughness in its
original orientation with
the gages design and
integrated Digilog tech-
nology that suppor ts
analog scanning of the
par t, eliminating the
need to reset the part.
New software devel-
o p e d f o r FA N U C,
Heidenhain and
Siemens controls eases
integration with controls
for various applications.
Surface data such as
Ra, Rz and Rmax values
are sampled at more
than 1,000 Hz/sec. and
recorded directly with
the control. The gage
supports an integrated
process of control for
manufacturers using
automated surface finish
analysis, enabling the
operator to quickly cor-
rect issues.
Blum-Novotest Inc.,
call 859-344-6789
or visit
blum-novotest.us.

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MORE
More operations. Less handling.
Turn, mill, drill, grind, hob, tap, groove and more
in a single setup. Even 6-sided machining.

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More precision.
Accuracies to microns
best possible turned surface finishes.

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IN ONE.
With our precision turning solutions, you can cut
your cycle times dramatically. Up to 60% or more.

Less really is more.

Less time in the machine, complex parts finished
complete, means less cost per piece, better part quality.

BOOTH S-8136

INDEX MS16 Plus Multispindle CNC Lathe better. parts. faster.

Fast-setup, high-speed machining outproduces
cam-controlled multis.
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n 6 independent fluid-cooled CNC spindles for machining versatility www.indextraub.com info@indextraub.com
n 6 2-axis tool carriers plus backworking and 5 grooving tool slides

n Also available: MS52, MS40, MS32, MS22-8

CNC Multispindle Lathes Swiss Turning Machines Turn-mill Centers Automatic Lathes
IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

CARBIDE MANUFACTURER
EXPANDS TO UNITED STATES
SINTER SUD, BOOTH W-1151
Sinter Sud is an Italian carbide manufacturer that
has grown to become one of the largest carbide
manufacturers in Europe. The company opened
business in the United States in 2015 and has an
exclusive partnership with BB Inc. The company
manufactures rods, bars and burr blanks in a
variety of grades. The company is ISO certified
and Balzers validated for diamond coating.
Sinter Sud, call 39-0823-95-81-66
or visit sintersud.com/en. 1.0 micron) for precision bearings, pump gears
and valve plates. The machines process a range
GRINDING MACHINES of materials from aluminum to steel and sof t
DESIGNED FOR plastics to hard ceramics.
PRECISE PLANE PARALLELISM The company says that in addition to recycling
SUPFINA MACHINE CO., coolant, the Spiro series eliminates water from
BOOTHS N-6299, N-6394, N-6398 the cooling process and, as a result, reduces the
Supfina Machine Co.s Spiro series of surface chance of contamination. The machines base
finishing systems supports fine grinding with d e s i g n i s s a i d to m i n i m i ze v i b r ati o n, th u s
precise plane parallelism (less than or equal to reducing tool wear, and the machines modular

Focused on bringing product innovation to the industry

for over five decades.

Visit us at Booth #E-5025 Everything for EDM Since 1960

Michigan North Carolina Massachusetts California Illinois Headquarters: 800.356.4811 www.belmont4edm.com

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G-series Precision at the highest level

A promising future with the G-series

GROB 5-axis universal machining centers stand out thanks to their absolute precision
and reliability in the automotive, aerospace, medical and mechanical engineering
as well as tool and mold industries.
The proven 5-axis simultaneous technology with horizontal spindle position enables
you to machine parts of various sizes and materials in a flexible and failure-free way
while offering maximum stability of the machine.
Fast chip-to-chip times and the innovative further development of our spindle
technology guarantee a high economic efficiency and productivity.
The GROB G-series for the most versatile machining possibilities.

GROB SYSTEMS, INC.

Bluffton, Ohio, USA

www.grobgroup.com
Visit GROB at Booth #S-8574 info@us.grobgroup.com
IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

design promotes quick tool change. high- and low-volume environments and are
Supfina Machine Co., call 401-294-6600 designed to eliminate change-overs. The grinder
or visit supfina.com. features a servo-driven index table capable of
holding as many as eight chucks and can also be
CLAMP BORE GRINDERS equipped with as many as three grinding heads,
AN ALTERNATIVE TO enabling multiple-pass operations.
DOUBLE-DISC GRINDERS According to the company, clamp bore grind-
NAGEL PRECISION, BOOTH N-7072 ers have emerged as an alternative to double-disc
Nagels SPV clamp bore grinders are flexible in grinders, especially for achieving critical bore-to-
face perpendicularity
with such parts as trans-
mission gears. The com-
When something exceptional develops between us: pany says that unlike
Thats the MAPAL effect. double-disc grinders,
West Building, with which there is no
Stand W-1410
relationship between
bore and face, clamp
bore grinder parts are

We
clamped to the bore

You
while the face is ground,
enabling bore-to-face
perpendicularity.
Process provide reduced tool costs
For low-volume,
reliability and a 50 % reduction in
typically high-change-
machining time with
special milling tools. over applications, each
place special importance on of the eight chucks can
perfect surfaces and edges. be dedicated to one
part, reducing change-
over. For high-volume
applications, two
chucks can be dedi-
cated to one par t:
One chuck is dedicated
to grinding while
the other is dedicated
to simultaneous
loading/unloading.
Nagel Precision,
call 734-426-5650
or visit nagelusa.com.

CUTTER
GRINDER
DESIGNED FOR
SMALL-BATCH
High performance in cost effectiveness: PRODUCTION
Single-step machining of CFK possible at double the feed rate.
ROLLOMATIC INC.,
www.mapal.com | Your technology partner for machining
BOOTH N-7214
Strausak, a member of

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 Our abrasive waterjet technology

accurately cuts any material

VISIT US IN
and shape at significantly
BOOTH
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 IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

NEW PRODUCT
Unveiling at

Booth # E-3240

New ct Rollomatic Holding, presents the U-Grind five-axis

du
Pro CNC tool and cutter grinder featuring thermal
stability designed to facilitate consistent, accurate,
small-batch production and regrinding. The two
different optional loaders include a small-batch
loader and full robotic automation. Features
includes an automatic wheel changer and a direct-
drive 12-kW (17-hp) grinding spindle with an
optional automatic loader. The machines automatic
Multi Connect quick-change system is designed for collet change
Connect all your and for ISO 50-taper toolholder change.
The grinder features NUM Flexium control and
Machines for NumrotoPlus tool grinding software enabling 3D
tool simulation, machine animation and collision
Machine Monitoring checking. Additional software is available for
complex step/form tools, hobs, burrs, shape cut-
DNC Communications ters, T-slot cutters, high-performance end mills

All-in-one device and drills (including K-land grinding), routers,

porting and other types of cutting tools. A touch
probe is included for grinding wheel qualification.
Digitization of existing cutting edges is included
PLC for grinding or regrinding pre-fluted tools.
Wireless Rollomatic Inc., call 866-713-6398
or visit rollomaticusa.com.
Ethernet
RS232 Serial TOOLHOLDER FOR
HIGH-PRODUCTION TAPPING
EMUGE CORP., BOOTH W-1536
Emuges SpeedSynchro toolholding solution
www.ShopFloorAutomations.com/IMTS2016 features an integrated transmission of 1:4.412 for
Toll Free (877) 611-5825 optimizing thread production on CNC machines
with synchronous spindles. The integrated trans-
Find us on:
mission is combined with the products minimum-
length compensation to efficiently work with high

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Machining productivity
in every direction.
With HELLER, you get future-proof capability
and maximum machine availability. In every axis.

Booth S-9174

5-axis milling High-torque 5-sided, 5-axis

and turning. 4-axis machining. simultaneous machining
With the C Series HMCs, The H series for versatile The F Series offers three
the tool provides 5th axis machining of various batch spindle options for maximum
for horizontal, vertical, sizes, materials. process stability in any material.
and tilted turning.

HELLER. Expect optimum HELLER Machine Tools

quality production from Troy, Michigan
a highly stable, reliable www.heller.biz
process. Expect Lifetime sales@hus.heller-machines.com
Productivity.

HELLER Solutions. Knowing how its done.

IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

cutting speeds and a relatively low synchronous and an ER16 toolholder size is offered. Internal
machine tool speed, compensating for synchro- coolant capability is provided.
nization errors during the threading process. Emuge Corp., call 800-323-3013
According to the compa ny, the product or visit emuge.com.
achieves exact thread depths because it does
not reverse the direction of rotation. The tool- GEAR-SHAPING TOOLS WITH
holder supports a maximum spindle speed of REPLACEABLE INSERTS
2,000 rpm and a maximum tapping speed of LIEBHERR GEAR TECHNOLOGY INC.,
8,824 rpm. The cutting range is from M1 to M8 BOOTH N-6930
Liebherr Gear Technol-
ogy of fers a range of
new gear-shaping tools
with replaceable inserts;
galvanized cubic boron
nitride (cBN) grinding
tools for generating and
profile grinding; shaving
cutters; rolling tools,
such as rolling discs and
rolling racks; deburring
tools for press deburr-
ing; master gears; and
rack-shape cutters. All
products are available
in a wide range of
custom specifications,
the company says.
Liebherr Gear
Technology Inc.,
call 734-429-7225
or visit liebherr.com.

UNIVERSAL
CYLINDRICAL
GRINDING
SERIES
PROVIDES
STABILITY
KENT
Cut the materials of today. INTERNATIONAL USA

Shape the products of tomorrow.

INC., BOOTH S-9482
Kent Internationals KGC

ALL WITH WATERJET.

u n i ve r s a l cy li n d r i c a l
grinding series features
an X axis with preloaded
precision roller linear
g u i d e s, a C 3 - g r a d e
FlowWaterjet.com 1.800.446.FLOW ballscrew and FANUC
servomotors. The cross

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Think you cant afford a
Giddings & Lewis
VTC or HBM? Think again!

NEW
Giddings & Lewis V Series Giddings & Lewis T-Bed HBM
800 - 2500 mm tables 130 or 155 mm spindle

Traditional Fives Giddings & Lewis Quality at an Untraditional Price

Proudly designed and built in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Visit Fives and see:

Both machines in action in the Financing Available
South hall, booth S8109 NO PAYMENTS for 5 months
Cranfield Precision & Landis-Bryant Financing examples*:
grinders in the North hall, booth N7018 Giddings & Lewis V 800
$ 8,710 / month (60 months) turning only
$11,185 / month (60 months) live spindle

Giddings & Lewis RT 130

$16,200 / month (60 months)
* See Fives representative for full financing details.

Fives Giddings & Lewis

142 Doty Street, Fond du Lac, WI, 54935
Ph: 920 906 2860 fivesmsi-sales@fivesgroup.com

www.fivesgroup.com
IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

ballscrew enables smooth transmission and
stable, accurate performance. The design of the
ladder-type, V-flat Z-axis slideway promotes high
rigidity and stability in the grinding process.
The machines wheelhead features a spindle
with six preloaded, angular-contact ball bearings
and a runout of 0.001 mm. A spindle inverter
accommodates wheel diameter changes with
constant circumferential wheel speed. For easy
loading and unloading, a hydraulic system moves
the tailstock quill; the operator can also move the
tailstock by hand.
The table manually swivels for taper grinding,
and a dial gage is installed for easy reading. The
dresser can be mounted at the rear side of the
tailstock, workhead or on the table for different
applications. The workhead is servomotor-driven
with a labyrinth waterproof design. It includes
high-precision, angular-contact ball bearings for
axial and radial loading.
The machine features a FANUC control with
conversational pages for general grinding appli-
cations that are said to be easy to learn and
to use.
Kent International USA Inc., call 800-279-5368
or visit kentusainc.com.
PRODUCTION VISES INCREASE
MACHINE POTENTIAL
FIXTUREWORKS, BOOTH W-2377
Fixtureworks will showcase several new product
lines. Highlighting the exhibit will be its lineup of
Trimax vises, low-profile Trigrip carbide grippers
and the APS zero-point positioning system.
Trimax production vises enable users to increase
machine potential with multiple-part clamping,

The Originals
Dont be fooled by imitations!
MakroGrip
Compact and unmatched holding power for
5-face-machining using the patented Grip-Fix
form-closure technology

QuickPoint
Highly precise and modular zero-point clamping
system. Enormous reduction of set-up times!

Find us in
The expert in 5-axis machining and automation. Booth# E-
4128!
www.lang-technovation.com

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quick-change components and easy adjustment, down effect. The inserts are integrated with the
the company says. Vises in this line are suited for Trimax line of vises and can be used for upgrad-
production, five-axis and machinist applications. ing existing vise jaws.
Trigrip carbide gripper inserts are designed The APS zero-point positioning system is
for low-profile clamping with no dovetail workpiece designed to connect the clamping device or
preparation. The triangular grippers feature ser- workpiece with the machine tool for faster setup
rations designed for steel, hardened steel, titanium times and increased precision. The system features
and aluminum, and are equipped with two rows r e c e pt a c l e s w i t h t h r e e a i r- a c t i v a te d j a w s
of teeth at different angles to increase the pull- fo r i n c re a s e d r i g i d i t y, c l a m p i n g fo rc e a n d
repeatability of 0.0002".
The pins are released
with the application of
air pressure.
Visit us at IMTS The company also
Booth # N7587 displays its compact
I m a o a i r- a s s i s t e d
clamps, supports and

Superior Finish locators designed for

remote-control activa-

Superior Durability tion and simultaneous

control.
Fixtureworks, call
Rosler is the global leader in supplying tailor-made finishing solutions for the
888-794-8687 or visit
automotive industry. Our mass finishing and shot blasting systems provide
fixtureworks.net.
precise, repeatable processes with a low cost per piece and short process times.
ROTARY, TILT
ROTARY TABLES
OFFERED
CNC INDEXING &
FEEDING
TECHNOLOGIES,
BOOTH S-9092
CNC Indexing &
Feeding Technologies
announces its new
Rosler offers a complete line of shot blasting par tnership with TJR
systems featuring automatic handling, ideal for Precision Technology
processing a wide variety of automotive from Taiwan. The com-
components, including crankshafts and engine blocks.
pany will now supply
TJR rotary tables with
an emphasis on direct-
drive and 5C collet
finding a better way... fourth-axis series units.
T h e rota r y ta b l e s
Rosler Metal Finishing USA is the leader in mass finishing, shot blasting, feature an anti-wearing
automated processes and media - made in the USA.
worm gear and a shaft
Visit www.rosler.us or call 269-441-3000 for more information.
made of high tensile
b r a s s fo r d u r a b i l i t y.
Encircling braking

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M4000
Efficiency across
all generations.

Powered by Tigertec Silver

M4000 is the universal system for all users who want to have as many options as possible when milling.
The M4000 range can master all machining tasks with our most efficient indexable insert powered by
Tigertec Silver. Whether it is a shoulder milling cutter, high-feed cutter, chamfer milling cutter, or T-slot
milling cutter, the square system indexable inserts can be used across the entire M4000 range. Save
time and money, and invest in the future. As the Walter Green seal shows:
The M4000 is fully CO2 compensated from raw material to manufacturing to storage.

Visit us at IMTS Booth W-1700

walter-tools.com/us
 IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

Advanced Honing Technology

wide range
of machines
for small
bore applications systems use a large clamping range to prevent
displacement during heavy-duty cutting. For tilt
rotary tables, the company offers a 2+1 indepen-
dent braking system and large diameter radial
and axial preloaded bearings for rigid support
during fourth and fifth axis cutting on both single-
and dual-arm rotary tables. A three-year parts
warranty is standard for all new TJR rotary tables.
CNC Indexing & Feeding Technologies,
call 513-770-4200 or visit cncindexing.com.

IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

FOR PRESETTING, MEASURING
ZOLLER INC., BOOTH W-2022
Zollers Pilot 1.0 image processing technology is
designed for presetting and measuring standard
tools quickly and easily. Features include automatic
cutter shape and measuring range detection; a
navigation system called Compass; projector
function and cutting edge inspection; Cris360
to determine the effective cutting area of tools;
and a clear representation of the tool cutting edge
on a 13.3"-panel PC.
With Pilot 1.0, the companys Smile tool preset-
ter can be used on the shop floor next to CNC
machines, in processing and test centers, or in
B o o th N -6740 measurement rooms. According to Zoller, the
September 1217, 2016 presetter enables easy operation and real-time
presentation of the measurement results in the
camera field of vision. It is available in a workshop-
compatible device version. A variety of standard
measuring functions are available, including
longitudinal and cross dimensions, radius, two-
gehringlp.com
angle technology, and concentricity and runout.
Zoller Inc., call 877-496-5537
or visit zoller-usa.com.

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TAPS DESIGNED including stainless steels. Z-Pro is provided in DIN

FOR VARIOUS MATERIALS lengths with ANSI diameters and offered with a
YMW TAPS USA, BOOTH W-2562 variety of coatings.
YMW Taps USA introduces the Z-Pro line of eco- YMW Taps USA, call 855-969-8721
nomical, high-performance taps. The line is offered or visit ymwtapsusa.com.
in standard sizes from #0 to 11/2 " and metric sizes
from M2 to M48 with a variety of types available. MEASURING SOFTWARE
These taps are designed for carbon steels, alloyed MONITORS, REPRODUCES
steels, irons, brass and free machining materials OPERATORS PROCESS
PARLEC INC.,
BOOTH W-2300
Parlec announces the
release of its P7 measur-
ing and inspection soft-
ware based on human
behavior and web prac-
tices. It has an Echo
feature said to monitor
the operators process
once and then repro-
duce it automatically.

BUILD STRONGER, BUILD SMARTER The sof twares A AIM

feature can compare
First class tooling solutions for an industry that depends on constant innovation. forms and me asure-
ments of a cutting tool
to a .dxf drawing.
Reliable Parts Begin with Reliable Tooling The software is
available on the 1550-,
Long tool life, machining quality and repeatability are key components in manufacturing parts that
1850- and Apex-series
meet strict industry standards while allowing you to grow as a profitable aerospace manufacturer.
to o l m e a s u r i n g a n d
We offer many tooling solutions to keep you up and running fast when it comes to parts for
inspection machines.
airframes, engines, components, or various composites used in aerospace manufacturing.
The software contains
several software mod-
ules to enhance applica-
tion and support
future growth.
Other features
include feedback indica-
tors located throughout,
providing the operators
Check out our Aerospace Tooling Solutions brochure for product offering. with constant feedback,
and a flat color scheme
See More at kyoceraprecisiontools.com/aerospace designed to avoid strain-
ing the operators eyes
over an extended period
of time.
Parlec Inc.,
KYOCERA Precision Tools, Inc. | 800.823.7284 | cuttingtools@kyocera.com call 800-866-5872
or visit parlec.

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YOUVE GOT THIS
AND WEVE GOT THE MACHINE

Visit us at Booth#N6815

Whoever said dont sweat the small stuff wasnt in a

business where microns make the difference. No matter
what type of technology your advanced manufacturing jobs
call for, our engineers, sales reps and support staff
appreciate every nuanced detail. MC Machinery products
and expertise run the gamut of modern machine
technology. So from EDM to advanced milling,
we do our part to help you do yours.

Visit MCMachinery.com/Partnership to learn more.

Follow us on Twitter @mc_mits

EDM | MILLING | TURNING | LASER | PRESS BRAKE | CONSUMABLES | ADDITIVE | SERVICE

IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

AIR CARTRIDGE FILTRATION
SERIES SIMPLIFIES MAINTENANCE
LOSMA INC., BOOTH NC-226
Losmas Argos series of cartridge filtration units
captures mist, vapor and smoke generated during
machining operations. The units are available in
three sizes with throughputs ranging from 3,000
to 15,000 m 3/hour.
Upon request, the units can be supplied with
an absolute H13 HEPA filter for a filtration level of
99.97 percent, according to EN 1822 standards.
The re-condensed mist is collected in a tank,
which can also be equipped with a pump to
automatically discharge the tank.
The series is designed to promote sturdiness,
reliability and simplicity in maintenance. The
manometer gage supplied enables users to
monitor filter saturation level. An optional LED Up
system signals the status of the filter elements
by changing color from green to yellow to red.
The front hatch and the horizontal cartridge hook-
ing mechanism are designed to enable quick filter
access and replacement.
Losma Inc., call 866-567-0950
or visit losma.com.

QUICK-SWAP FIXTURE SYSTEM

FOR OPTICAL COMPARATORS
PHILLIPS PRECISION INC., BOOTH E-5608
Phillip Precisions Inspection Arsenal Loc-N-Load
quick-swap fixture system is designed to speed

Economic machining of long workpieces:

The WEILER V-Series

Welcome to the only 4-way Precision Lathe with automated cycles: The WEILER V-Series. This large machine can functi-
on as a smaller, simple manual machine to a fully programmable turning machine. If economic machining of long work
pieces is your business, the V-Series is your solution. It was designed with these work pieces in mind. The slides can
overrun the steady rest and tailstock. The V-Series is accurate and easy to operate. The smart WEILER software
guides you through each step eliminating the need for programming experience. One look at this robust lathe and
you can see the German standards for quality, precision and reliability.
LET YOUR WEILER MACHINE DO THE WORK SO YOU DONT HAVE TO!

Member of

www.weilerusa.com Booth S-9272

WEILER USA // Mount Pleasant I SC 29466 // Phone: (843) 810-3839 // info@weilerusa.com

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2016 12 -12
September 17, 2016IMTS 2016
17,- 2016

Search optical comparator inspections. The lean fixture

concept speeds inspection on traditional CMMs

Machines and vision systems as well as on gage arms and

laser trackers, and further enhances the value of

Smarter. optical comparators, the company says.

The system features a 6" docking rail, two 6"
12" Loc-N-Load plates and a workholding kit.
Items can be purchased individually or in a pre-
configured bundle. The docking rail secures to
the T-slot table, while the magnetically interlock-
ing plates are designed to quickly and accurately
secure and release. By fixturing on quick-swap
plates, operators can change parts in and out
without building and breaking down setups. For
high-quantity part lots, affordable plates can be
dedicated and kept with the job box for fast,
Machine Type: repeatable setups.
Phillips Precision Inc., call 508-869-0373
Machining Center
or visit fixture-up.com.
Drill/Tap

Boring Mill VISION NUMERICAL CONTROL

Milling Machine FOR HIGH-SPEED MILLING
FIDIA CO., BOOTH S-8880
Fidia will feature its C-40 vision numerical control
for advanced high-speed milling and multi-axis
applications. The control is equipped with a
Quad-core processor and a more powerful graphic
processor. The products 64-bit, Windows 7
operating system enables precise execution and
virtual machining of the tool path using the Fidia
ViMill system. The control on display is equipped

The Machine Tool Search Engine

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

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with a V5 software package for multi-axis control for the control and integration of machines. The
that is designed to improve the performance of holistic user interface is designed to be as easy
high-speed milling machines. to use as a smartphone.The system features an
Fidia Co., call 248-680-0700 or visit fidia.com. open architecture that enables the exchange of
information with higher-level structures and
CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A DIGITAL enhances functionality of the CNC machine tool
MANUFACTURING STRATEGY on the shop floor. According to the company,
DMG MORI USA INC., BOOTH S-8900 the system helps users integrate their machines
DMG MORI offers its app-based CELOS system in the company organization while simultaneously
creating an inter face
for metalcutting pro-
duction in the cyber-
p hy s i c a l p ro d u c ti o n
system of the future.
The system results in
reduced tooling times,
as well as less time and
effort spent on calcula-
tion of technology
values or the search for
important information.
DMG MORI USA Inc.,
call 855-364-6674
or visit
dmgmori-usa.com.

MODULAR
UNITS
INCREASE
PRODUCTIVITY
IN ASSEMBLY
OPERATIONS
CARR LANE
ROEMHELD MFG. CO.,
BOOTH W-1663
Carr Lane Roemhelds
modular workhandling
units can be combined
in different combinations
for the safe and efficient
handling and movement
of heavy loads in assem-
bly operations, the com-
pany says. Various mod-
ules enable horizontal
and ver tical rotating,
ti l ti n g, a n d l i f ti n g of
workpieces with hydro-
mechanical or electric

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operation. The units can be used in conjunction

with car ts, floor modules, plates, clamps or
height-adjustable tables.
Carr Lane Roemheld Mfg. Co.,
call 800-827-2526 or visit clrh.com.

HYBRID MACHINE COMBINES

ADDITIVE, MILLING
SODICK INC., BOOTH E-4802
Sodicks OPM250L, a hybrid machine that com-
bines direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) with
high-speed milling in the same workspace,
enables single-process production of finished
components. The One-Process Machine (OPM)
is Sodicks first foray into DMLS technology. It is
primarily designed for use by moldmakers, with
the ability to create conformal cooling channels
within a finished mold.
The OPM250L enables machining workpieces
before printing is complete, making it possible to
alternate laser sintering and milling passes. In
addition to its usefulness in producing conformal
cooling channels, this capability also helps reduce
the number of parts necessary to produce a mold.
Sodick has developed Z-Asso, a dedicated
CAM system, for this integrated machine. Z-Asso
is capable of importing CAD data, generating
laser and machining data, optimizing cutting along
high-load areas, and simulating the process to
accurately estimate production time. The machine
provides further process improvements by enabling

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 The Toolroom Titans

Easy Turn Series

MB Series

Demanding users know that the best toolroom machines in the world are made by a small
company in Patterson, New York. Designed and built using premium components, the Fryer
Toolroom Series outperforms, is more accurate and lasts longer than any other toolroom machine.
Equipped with the powerful but easy to use Siemens control, the Fryer Toolroom Series allows
you to create parts faster and more accurately. See for yourself the Fryer difference.

Compact Compact
Lathe Mill

FRYERMACHINE.COM The Toolroom Company Booth number 8719

IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

unmanned and remote machining. machines for precision metal components, featur-
Sodick Inc., call 888-639-2325 ing the Lifehone L630. The modular, standard
or visit sodick.com. machine offers a systematic approach for efficient
manufacturing. The machine can be equipped
MODULAR HONING MACHINE with sun gears, connecting rods, hydraulic sleeves
OFFERS SYSTEMATIC APPROACH and injector pump components as well as match-
GEHRING HONING TECHNOLOGIES, ing honing units, depending on customer require-
BOOTH N-6740 ments and the parts to be finished.
Gehring presents its new line of modular honing The L630 machine is a honing center that can
be equipped with one
or two honing spindles.
Depending on the
machining task and
batch size, this type of
machine features an
optional fixed or rotary
table and as many as
eight stations. These
World Class stations can also be
used for measuring or
Manufacturer of brushing operations.
Gehring Honing
Rotary Cutting Tools Technologies,
call 248-478-8060
or visit gehring.de/en.

TRUNNION
INCREASES
PRODUCTIVITY
TRUNNIONTABLE.
COM, BOOTH W-2268
The new Stallion Hybrid
trunnions from Trunnion-
Table.com enable face-
plates and chucks to be
installed without
removal of the trunnion
ta b l e fo r fa ste r pa r t
setups, increased pro-
Made in U.S.A. ductivity and higher-
quality parts. The prod-
uct comes in two
models: the 9/20 and
t h e 9/23. T h e u n i t s
accommodate a variety
965 Harbor Lake Dr. Safety Harbor, FL 34695 of vises, fixtures, three-
727.726.5336 www.mastercuttool.com and four-jaw chucks,
Email: sales@mastercuttool.com and collet chucks
for f lexible job shop

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Come see these Machines at Masteels Booths S-8786 & S-8790
MAXCUT / UCHINE UBM-11032RT
CNC HORIZONTAL BORING MILL
Spindle: 4.33 (110 mm) dia., 20 hp, 4,000 rpm, CAT 50 Taper
Travels X-Y-Z-W: 126 x 79 x 67 x 20 (3200 x 2000 x 1700 x 500 mm)
Table: 55 x 63 (1400 x 1600 mm), 26,400 lb capacity with 0.0001
positioning, 22,000 lb. capacity with B-axis cutting feed function
ATC: 60 positions
Through Spindle Coolant
Renishaw wireless Tool/Work Probes - RMP60 + RTS
Linear Scale Feedback on X/Y/Z axis
Control: FAGOR 8065 CNC

MAXCUT / LEADWELL TASK MASTER TM-1500

CNC 5-AXIS SIMULTANEOUS MULTI TASK MACHINE
Turning Spindle with C-axis:
1,000 rpm, 50 hp, 20 hydraulic chuck, A2-15 nose, 7.0 bar capacity
Milling Spindle with B-axis:
12,000 rpm, 35 hp, Capto C6 spindle nose, B-axis -10 ~ +230
Dual Automatic Tool Changers:
Main ATC with 60 tools, Secondary ATC for 3 of 20 long boring bar
Turning Capacity: 31 x 60 (780 x 1500 mm)
Control: FAGOR 8065 CNC

MAXCUT / EUMACH FBE-2000

RAM-TYPE HORIZONTAL MACHINING CENTER W/AUTO UNIVERSAL HEAD
Ram type construction features higher acceleration and deceleration on the Z-ax
Z-axis
Rigid Ram-type design allows max. cutting and flexibility
Table: 41 x 83 (1050 x 2100 mm), 11,000 lb capacity
Travels X-Y-Z, 80 x 40 x 60 (2000 x 1000 x 1500 mm)
Horizontal spindle: 5,000 rpm, CAT 50 Taper
Universal Head: Auto horizontal/vertical position, 3,500 rpm, CAT 50 taper
ATC 32 tools
Through Spindle Coolant
Linear scale feedback on X/Y/Z axis
Control: FAGOR 8060 CNC

MAXCUT / L&L MA-3080-10

HEAVY-DUTY CNC FLAT BED LATHE
Spindle: A2-15 nose, 30 hp, 10 bore
Swing: 30 (770 mm) over bed
Centers: 80 (2000 mm)
Twin turrets:
8 position hydraulic turret , 4 position quick changer turret
Dual chucks: 25 3-jaw, 24 4-jaw
22 wide, one-piece solid bed structure
Control: FAGOR 8060 CNC

MASTEEL AMERICA CORP.

Toll Free 1.800.913.4434 Email: Sales@masteels.com
www.masteels.com Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, CANADA
 IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

workholding. The 9/20 features dimensions of 9"

20" and is designed to hold a 6" vise. The 9/23
features dimensions of 9" 23" and is designed
for double- or single-station 6" vises.
Subplates and quick-change subplates are
available. Standard baseplates enable the trun-
nion assembly to be offset to one side of the
machine to maximize machine travel. A pneumatic
brake, built into the outboard support, provides
as much as 600 lbs of clamping. This makes the
machine applicable for shops doing heavy off-
center milling and drilling. Hydraulic workholding
packages are also available.
The trunnions are engineered to bolt onto a
machines rotary indexer, allowing operators to
mill, drill, tap and contour as many as three sides
of a part in one setup.
TrunnionTable.com, call 859-727-9900
or visit trunniontable.com.

ROTARY INDEXING MACHINE

PROCESSES MEDIUM,
LARGE WORKPIECES
WINEMA MASCHINENBAU GMBH,
BOOTH N-7098
Winema will introduce the RV 30 Flexmaster, a
fully CNC rotary indexing machine for medium
and large workpieces. The machine is equipped
with 10 clamping stations, and three optional axis
units situated horizontally and a xially enable
machining of more complex components. Double
machining of workpieces is possible via simulta-
neous feed of two workpieces or bars at two
different clamping stations.
The clamping units accommodate workpieces
ranging from 15 to 50 mm in diameter and

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 INTRODUCING
HARDINGE TALENT SERIES

ED
The Hardinge TALENT Series CNC Turning
Centers offer an exceptional combination of RI C
features for accuracy, flexibility and durability in E LYP Y
I V DA
a compact design. The unique collet-ready main
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and improve surface finish.
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below and youll have a truly versatile machine
tool with a level of quality you would expect with
any Hardinge Product.
Servo-Driven Tailstock Y-Axis
Live Tooling Sub-Spindle
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to 200 mm in length. The workpieces are clamped barstock ranging to 24 mm in diameter.

into two precise two-jaw chucks, with a maximum
of 18 axial and four radial units available. Raw
materials are fed as barstock via the loading
cartridge, or as a press raw piece or sawed sec-
tion placed directly into the clamping chucks.
Additionally, a contour lathe can be installed in
front of the switch instead of the bar feeding
system, enabling the machining of
AUTOMATE Measuring Parts?
MICRO-VUS FAMILY of MEASURING MACHINES
is a FAST, ACCURATE, and EASY solution.
The system machines workpieces from as
many as three sides simultaneously at each sta-
tion, and can turn or reposition the workpieces
at defined stations. The station with the longest
machining time determines the cycle time. The
machine can carry out radial drilling and thread
milling or contour milling at as many as four sta-
tions. A flange-mounted angle head enables
machining such as mill-
ing of wre nch size s,
polygon milling, slotting
and contour milling.
Winema Maschinen-
bau GmbH, call
49 74-76 94 78 9 0
or visit winema.de/en.

CAM
STRATEGIES
IMPROVE
MACHINING
TIMES
OPEN MIND
TECHNOLOGIES USA
INC., BOOTH E-3351
Open Mind Technologies
USA will present
HyperMill Maxx Machin-
ing, a set of high-per-
fo r m a n c e strate g i e s
within HyperMill CAM
for improved roughing,
drilling and finishing.
Maxx Machining
Roughing is a high-
VERTEX 251 EXCEL 501 SOL 161
Automated Machine Automated Machine Manual Machine performance roughing
250x160x160mm 500x400x160mm 160x160x160mm module based on Celer-
$33,100 $47,700 $13,000
itives Volumill toolkit.
Prices include InSpec Metrology Software. This module is designed
Other models with sizes up to 2500x1600mm. to provide increased
cutter life while reducing
roughing times. It can
(707) 838-6272 Check out our
be applied to 2D pock-
product video
sales@microvu.com
www.microvu.com eting routines, 3D stock
roughing and five-axis
shape offset roughing.
Maxx Machining Drill-
ing is a technique used

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Is your hydraulic oil
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 IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

of conical barrel cutters. This can be applied to

large planar surfaces found in mold tooling, as
well as in aerospace structural components and
other large ruled or sculpted surfaces.
Open Mind Technologies USA Inc.,
call 888-516-1232 or visit openmind-tech.com.

to open holes for roughing using a five-axis heli-
cal drilling processes. It can use standard end
mills, and avoids recutting chips, thus protecting
the cutter.
The Maxx Machining Finishing includes a set
of finishing operations focused on the application
SIMULATION HELPS
OPTIMIZE CNC MACHINING
SPRING TECHNOLOGIES INC.
(NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS), BOOTH E-3267
Spring Technologies will demonstrate its NCSIMUL
Solutions 10, an all-in-one digital suite. The com-
pany will focus on its most popular modules in
the suite, NCSIMUL Machine and NCSIMUL CAM.
With this software, users can simulate, verify,
optimize and review machine programs based on
the characteristics of the machine tools. Accord-
ing to the company, 3D graphics help to avoid
machining crashes, while algorithms and embed-
ded process-based knowledge enable cutting
conditions to be optimized. The software is said

INNOVATIVE PRODUCTION
GRINDING SOLUTIONS

PARTNER FOR PRECISION

The JUNKER Group is the ultimate partner worldwide
for all needs related to grinding and air ltration
technology. Maximum precision and absolute
passion for what we do makes us a pioneering
technology leader. It is our mission to set new
standards and justify the trust placed in us by
discerning customers from a vast array of industrial
sectors.
www.junker-usa.com

Erwin Junker +1 847 488 0406

Machinery, Inc. info@junker-usa.com
2541 Technology Drive, #410
Elgin, IL 60124
USA
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KORLOY KNOWS PERFORMANCE
ITS OUR MIDDLE NAME
Get new levels of performance in Stainless Steel and
HRSA materials with Korloy s New RM3 true perpendicular,
multi operational, high feed milling cutter.

RM3

620 Maple Avenue, Torrance, CA 90503, USA

Tel : 310-782-3800 Toll Free : 888-711-0001 Fax : 310-782-3885
Visit Booth: #1580 Web : www.korloyamerica.com E-mail : sales@korloy.us
IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

to reduce the time spent on debugging programs OFFLINE PROGRAMMING FOR

and prevent the risk of spindle collision, tool
breakage and scrap. It is also designed to improve
cycle times and optimize processes.
Also on display will be the NCSIMUL CAM.
This module enables users to change the target
machine without reprogramming efforts.
Spring Technologies Inc. (NCSIMUL Solutions),
call 617-401-2197 or visit springplm.com.
MAZATROL, SMOOTH CONTROL
GRIFFO BROTHERS INC., BOOTH E-3307
Griffo Brothers CamLink software for offline
Mazatrol CNC programming is now available for
use with Windows 10 and Mazaks Smooth Con-
trol. Users can save files from their machines and
translate programs from one generation of machines
to the next. The software also enables users to
move data from Solid-

works into Ma zatrol.
Users can store and
retrieve Mazatrol or EIA/
ISO files of fline. Pro-
grams can be uploaded
or downloaded between

a machine and a PC.

Additionally, users
can print hard copies of
system programs; create
or edit programs at a
PC; shape check the
program part; and run
a toolpath check to visu-
alize how the program
will run to make adjust-
ments. Users can link
Mazatrol to CAD, and
.dxf files can be con-
ver ted directly to the
system. Mazatrol pro-
grams can be created
from SolidWorks using
the part model.

Griffo Brothers Inc.,
call 541-758-8421
or visit griffobros.com.

MACHINE TOOL
PROBING
SOFTWARE
REDUCES
MEASUREMENT
TIMES
RENISHAW INC.,
BOOTH E-5509
R e n i s h aws p ro b i n g
software package
is designed to

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automatically optimize on-machine measurement

Visit us at IMTS 2016!
Live demos & talk to our professionals.
cycles to minimize cycle time and maximize pro-
ductivity. The Inspection Plus with SupaTouch
software features an easy-to-use optimization
process that is designed to automatically determine
and select the machine tools highest feed rates
while maintaining measurement accuracy.
The probing software uses in-cycle decision
making to implement either a one- or two-touch
probing strategy for each measurement routine,
and is said to eliminate the need for manual opti-
mization of on-machine positioning feed rates,
measurement feed rates and strategies. Compared
with traditional software cycles, the software is
said to provide a cycle time reduction ranging to
60 percent on CNC machine tools.
The software detects any measurements taken
during machine acceleration or deceleration
phases and compensates for errors by taking
corrective action and remeasuring. It also intro-
duces a calibration process that improves mea-
surement repeatability in all directions and improves
the accuracy of probe positioning during multi-axis
vector moves.
Renishaw Inc., call 847-286-9953
or visit renishaw.com.

FAMILY OF CNC MODELS

QUALITY. Over and over again.
STREAMLINES SETUP OF
AUTOMATED CELLS
SIEMENS INDUSTRY INC.,
BOOTHS E-4500, E-4502, NC-730
Siemens introduces its family of Sinumerik 828
WeldonSolutions.com CNC units. They are designed as a solution for
connecting robots to machine tools for automated

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Visit us at IMTS 2016!
Booth NC-451

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MACH LED PLUS.forty

Maximum light for minimum spaces

Experience the LED difference

of Waldmann Lighting.
Suitable for extremely harsh
machining environments (IP67)
Available in four lengths ranging
from 7.5 to 28.2 inches
Ideal for OEM applications
60,000 hours of maintenance-free The benefits of MACH LED PLUS.seventy
LED service life now available in a smaller form factor.

Waldmann Lighting Tel (800) 634- 0007 Fax (847) 520 -1730 www.waldmannlighting.com
IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

production cell setup. The Sinumerik Integrate
Run MyRobot/EasyConnect interface performs
handling tasks, enabling different types of robots
designed by different manufacturers to be con-
nected to CNC machines. The interface enables
companies to set up automated cells, including
serial machines, with different types of CNCs
using the same standard interface.
Using the new inte r fac e, op e rator s c a n
synchronize processes between the machine tool
and robots, thereby positioning efficient processes
in the automated production cell. Machine oper-
ators can simultaneously access the factor y
network and inspect contract documents at the
user interface. The concept also includes an
application for prep work on the PC, including the
creation of part programs.
Sinumerik Integrate Access MyMachine pro-
vides functionality for
remote diagnostics
using a corporate net-
work or internet access.
The basic Access

No matter how small MyMachine/P2P appli-

c ation facilitate s the
your project... exchange of data with
connected machines

Our laser
from a Windows PC.
Machine tool operators
can access the machine

can do it!
over the internet or out-
Bantam style side the company
PCD special form
grooving insert network. Sinumerik
Integrate Access
MyMachine/Ethernet
(ASP) provides an over-
v i ew of th e m a c h i n e
histor y in addition to
machine access. The
Sinumerik CNC enables
Laser Cut PCD the uploading and
downloading of machine
Advantages: Excellent for use in: data, files, trip recorders
Graphite
and configurable PLC
Unmatched smooth Rubber
Plastics
finishes! Carbon
traces. Text message
Fiberglass components
(SMS) or email notifica-
Unique chipbreakers in Ceramics
Wood
any style of insert! Copper tions in cases of unusual
Bronze
machine conditions are
Small forms possible! Brass
Aluminun Alloys
also possible. ASP
enables monitoring of
fault states, and com-
prehensive integration
of in-house service and
maintenance processes.
Siemens Industry Inc.,
call 800-879-8079
Contact us at:
or visit
(713) 941-1080 sales@toolflo.com www.toolflo.com
usa.siemens.com/cnc.

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SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS features its Within software for generative design

FOR DESIGN, SIMULATION,
ADDITIVE PRODUCTION
AUTODESK INC., BOOTH E-3222
Autodesks Netfabb software is designed to take
additive manufacturing beyond prototyping and
p l a s ti c s to c re ate p ro d u c ti o n- g r ad e p a r ts
at scale.
The company provides a suite of modular
manufacturing solutions, including CAM, additive
manufacturing, composite processing, inspection,
factory layout and robotics. The company also
optimization. These solutions create a manufac-
turing ecosystem engineered to streamline the
design-for-manufacturing workflow in order to
improve process efficiency, reduce failure rates
and lower product development costs.
Autodesk Inc., call 415-507-5000
or visit cam.autodesk.com.
TOOLHOLDERS MADE WITH
100 PERCENT FORGED
CONSTRUCTION
SOWA TOOL & MACHINE CO. LTD.,
BOOTH W-1485
Sowa Tool presents its line of GS toolholders
made with 100 percent forged construction. The
company says the compression during the forg-
ing process increases the holders strength.
These holders are precision ground throughout
and balanced for speeds ranging to 30,000 rpm.
The toolholder features DIN coolant through the
flange as a standard option. ER collet chuck nut

Rottler CNC Vertical

Honing Machines
Automatic CNC Control finishes
every cylinder to the same size
Automatic load control perfect
round and straight cylinders
Diamond and CBN Abrasives
perfect surface finish
Automatic Crash Protection no
broken stones and holders
Magnetic Filtering and Roll Out
Coolant Tank easy cleaning

Designed & Made in the USA

1-800-452-0534 Booth N-6548

rottlermfg.com
THE CUTTING EDGE

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 W RLD CLASS
Weingrtner Maschinenbau GmbH has been a vital and reliable partner to the metal working industry for
many years. To machine large, complex and highly precise parts, Weingrtner offers a comprehensive and
flexible multi product machining center (mpmc). deep hole drilling

These customized and dedicated machines are in operation worldwide. Workpieces such as generator
shafts, barrels, crankshafts, landing gears, steam and gas turbine shafts, tubing hangers, compressor shafts
and many other types of large turning/milling parts are machinable in a highly economical way from blank to
finished part.

The Weingrtner mpmc (multi product machining center) machines are available in several sizes, starting with
the 600 series up to the mighty mpmc 2000. Based on the respective model, a maximum turning/milling diameter
of 2000mm (78) and machining lengths up to 15m (50) are available. Because of the rigid design, the powerful
machining units and the ability to handle workpiece weights up to 60 metric tons, the mpmc machines are suited
for heavy-duty machining operations with thick stock removal as well as for high precision machining operations.

All machines have flexible pick-up systems and parking options, which enable them to quickly exchange, fully crankshaft machining
automatically many different application-specific machining modules. A fast availability of all units and a short
changeover time guarantees our customers a decisive competitive advantage.

... we increase productivity

01-02-16-mpmc-usa-mmsww

GmbH turbine shaft machining

Weingrtner Maschinenbau GmbH

4656 Kirchham 29 | Austria
phone +43 7619 2103 0
fax +43 7619 2103/42
sales@weingartner.com

turbo generator machining

IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

threads are precision ground, not cut, and come
complete with a balanced nut. ER collets available
as standard and steel sealed are made of an alloy
steel over carbon steel. According to the company,
the stronger material enables the collet to hold
for longer, re sulting in cost-saving cut ting
tool life.
Sowa Tool & Machine Co. Ltd.,
call 800-265-8221 or visit sowatool.com.
RANGE OF GUNDRILLS,
CARBIDE DRILLS, REAMERS
STAR SU LLC, BOOTH W-2258
Star SU presents its full line of gundrills and deep-
hole drills including single-flute gundrills; solid-
carbide, single-flute gundrills; two-flute, two-hole
gundrills; double-jet gundrills; double-crimp
gundrills; and bi-tip gundrills. Also on display is
the companys solid- and brazed-construction
carbide drills and ream-
ers including core drills,
Super Round Tool (SRT)

Excellence In Honing reamers, valve guide

reamers, multi-diameter
cavity machining tools
and cryogenic machin-
ing cutting tools.
Nagel - the industrys Star SU LLC,
gold standard for high call 847-649-1450
volume automotive or visit star-su.com.
honing applications, has
introduced ECO series MILLING
20, 40, 80, 120 and 180
MACHINES
- state of the art vertical
SPINDLE
honing systems, devel-
oped specifically for low
INCREASES
and medium volume PERFORMANCE
production. All these STARRAG USA INC.,
features at a surprisingly BOOTH S-8696
affordable price! The Ecospeed F 1540
milling machine from
3 mm to 180 mm bore diameter and Starrag is designed for
200 mm bore depth medium-size structural
Allen Bradley/Siemens controls and components used in the
windows PC based HMI aerospace and energy
In-process / Post process gauging business. According
Automatic form error recognition to the company, the
and correction m a c h i n es 2 0 0 - h p
Automatic tool wear compensation spindle provides
Change over from stroke honing to diamond sizing with push increased performance
of a button with low environmental
impact.
Roughing, finishing and gauging in same spindle
Unlike other
Quick change over
machines in the Eco-
Complete tooling and application support for life speed series, the
machine column is sta-
Contact: 734-426-1812
tionary in the F version.
www.nagelusa.com N-7072
Nagel Precision, Inc. Dealers Wanted
The pallets proceed in
288 Dino Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48103 the X direction to the
vertical table group. The

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.the art of LaserCUSING

Our business is built on

a foundation of speed,
efficiency, and delivering
a superior quality of parts.
Concept Laser metal
powder-bed systems
provide us with the ability
to deliver on that promise
to our customers.

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VP of Additive Manufacturing
Proto Labs

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Metal Parts With Rapid Speed
Concept Laser is the global leader in the design and
manufacture of powderbed-based laser metal additive
manufacturing systems. With over 15 years of design
production experience, Concept Laser has the right
solution for your laser metal manufacturing needs.
Concept Laser Inc (USA) Concept Laser GmbH
info@conceptlaserinc.com info@concept-laser.de
T: + 1 (817) 328-6500 T. +49 (0) 9571 1679-0
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In addition, the F 1540 can be installed directly

on the factor y floor, eliminating the need for
expensive foundations.
Starrag USA Inc., call 859-534-5201
or visit starrag.com.

ELLIPTICAL DEBURRING TOOL

Ecospeed F 1540 has a rotatable, double-pallet
station on the side facing the X direction, which
can be set up during machining time. The pallet
size is 159" 157". The company says it accom-
modates conditions for wing ribs, fuselage sections
or C frames ranging to 159" in height. It is equipped
with the 100th Sprint Z3 parallel kinematic machin-
ing head.
OFFERS EXCHANGEABLE
BLADE OPTIONS
HEULE TOOL CORP., BOOTH W-1352
Heule Tools COFA C series of elliptical deburring
tools features exchangeable blade options with
material-dependent coatings. The tools are suit-
able for removing burrs on the front and back of
drilled through holes on even or uneven surfaces
in a single cycle.
Each tool body can house different-sized blade
options. Tool types ranging from C6 up to C20
enable as many as three dif ferent deburring
capacities without changing the tool, thanks to
the exchangeable blade sizes. The swivel move-
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Its all about Precision,
Productivity, and Profit.
One solution, fully integrated,
from one company. Visit us at
IMTS and let us show you how.
TRUNNION
Witzig & Frank by Hydromat
is a leading brand for modular
machine concepts and turnkey
systems for metal cutting and
forming applications The LSA
is a multi-way production cell
with horizontal indexing axis
for 3-sided machining in one
clamping. It features 4 to 8
stations with horizontal and
radial units. Adjustable and
pivotable, they easily adapt to
changing workpiece shapes.
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Designed with four machining
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loading/unloading stations, the
ICON was developed around
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Equipped with a six position
table, it shuttles pallets to
four machining modules for
fast, ultra-precision cutting.
Engineered for maximum
output in a small footprint, the
ICON 6-150 the ultimate in
productivity and flexibility.
IMTS 2016 September 12 - 17, 2016

enabling the cutting edge to follow the uneven presetting requirements. A choice of tool sizes
bore edge. According to the company, the more and spring strengths enables use in various
the tool enters into the bore, the more the blade materials and hole sizes.
swings into the tool body. The result, Heule Heule Tool Corp., call 800-213-4341
says, is a radially shaped consistent deburring of or visit heuletool.com.
the bore edge which enables faster feed rates
with the tool slowing itself down as it enters the BRIDGE MILL SERIES INCREASES
through hole. STABILITY
The deburring tool has no adjusting screws or ABSOLUTE MACHINE TOOLS INC.,
BOOTH S-8536
The Johnford DMC
series of double-

CYCLOPS
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from Absolute Machine
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moving table and
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Configurations include
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Large working distance
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Designed to maximize efficiency and operator unlimited-size, sliding
comfort double-column options.
Up to 273x magnification in HDMI mode The series has a
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long-base casting with
Imaging and measurement software
included complete support of the
Available in two models: Cyclops HDMI with table over a 51" Y-axis
HDMI output, and the original Cyclops with t r a v e l, e n a b l i n g t h e
both HDMI and USB outputs machining of large loads.
Cyclops Models
The Y and Z axes hold
Starting from $750
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THROUGH-COOLANT
CUTTING TOOL IMPROVES
CHIP EVACUATION
CARMEX PRECISION TOOLS LLC,
BOOTH W-1480
Carmex Precision Tools expands its Tiny Tools
line with the CBR, featuring a chip breaker for
improved chip evacuation in boring and profiling
operations. The cutting tool is designed for
machining stainless steels, super alloys and
other hard-to-machine
hard-t materials. It features
internal coolant
coo through the tool and is
because there is no table overhang. The spindle constructed of carbide-grade TNX
constructe
centerline-to-column distance is minimized, offer- with triple coating
c for high edge
ing further rigidity. The machines ribbed cast iron stabilit y and
an improved chip
construction is said to provide long tool life and flow. The coolant
co deposition
quality surface finish. The combination of twin is intended to improve
screw-type conveyors and a caterpillar conveyor chip control, lengthen
promotes complete chip removal with reduced tool life, raise
manual cleaning. abrasive resis-
res
Absolute Machine Tools Inc., call 800-852-7825 tance and
or visit absolutemachine.com. reduce

W-2405

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the cutting edge temperature. HIGH-FEED MILLING CUTTER FILLS

The tool includes an external-thread turning APPLICATION GAP
holder designed for back operations on CNC SANDVIK COROMANT CO.,
Swiss-type lathes. The holder grips the tool in BOOTH W-1500
two directions for turning operations on both the Sandvik Coromant presents a high-feed milling
X and Y axes, and features an elbow fitting and cutter for diameters ranging from 13 to 32 mm
a top clamp. (0.512" to 1.26"). According to the company, this
Carmex Precision Tools LLC, call 262-628-5030 addition fills the application gap between the
or visit carmexusa.com. round tools assortment series and high-feed
products such as the
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CoroMill 419. Features
include iLock insert seat
interface, designed to
deliver high stability and
reduce the potential for
scrap workpieces. The
insert seat itself sup-
ports the small inserts
that are easier to handle.
The tool is capable
of delivering elevated
metal removal rates, the
company says, an out-
come that is supported
further by the cutters
high density and high
feed capacity. In turn,
high metal removal rates
are suppor ted by the
ex tra- c l o s e H p i tc h,
ensuring that more than
o n e to o t h i s a l w a y s
engaged in cut.
Additionally, although
the inser ts are small,
each tool offers four cut-
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integrated machine adapters and shanks. processing accuracy and improve maintenance
Sandvik Coromant Co., call 800-726-3845 using a double center-drive system. The GPD is
or visit sandvik.coromant.com/us. equipped with NC movable workheads on the left
and right sides. The distance between centers
CYLINDRICAL GRINDER USES can be adjusted without changing the setup to
DOUBLE CENTER DRIVE SYSTEM support workpiece lengths between 30 and 430
SHIGIYA (USA) LTD., BOOTH N-7463 mm. The cubic boron nitride (cBN) wheel, in
Shigiyas GPD double-drive CNC cylindrical combination with a multi-step sizing in-process
grinders are designed to simplify setup, improve gage, enables consistent processing accuracy
with high precision. The machine features a
200-mm diameter swing over table, a distance
between centers of 430 mm and a maximum
grinding diameter of 80 mm.
Shigiya (USA) Ltd., call 847-325-4800
or visit shigiya.com.

MILLING MACHINE COMBINES

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DATRON DYNAMICS INC., BOOTH N-6021
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affordable entry to high-speed milling. Accord-
ing to the company, the machines comprehen-
s i ve ra n g e of m i l l i n g strate g i e s e l i m i n ate s
the need for postprocessing, with applications
from pocketing and chamfering to drilling and
thread milling.
The milling machine features a 40,000-rpm
spindle and a 24-station automatic toolchanger.
B r u s h l e s s d i g i t a l s e r vo d r i ve s a n d d i r e c t-
drive ballscrews for each a xis enable feed
r a t e s r a n g i n g to 1,10 2 i p m . W i t h a w o r k
e nve l o p e m e a s u r i n g 20" 16.5" 9", th e
Datron Neo can accommodate larger par ts,
multiple setups or batch machining of
small production runs. The compact machine
fits through a standard-sized door for easy
installation, even in a lab environment, and is
suitable for rapid prototyping in any material with
high-quality surface finish.
The machine is equipped with Datrons Next
software for three-axis milling, a touchscreen
controller and an interior camera. The camera
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eliminates the time-consuming task of entering
data to locate and measure the workpiece.
Instead, finger gestures made directly on the
touchscreen initiate smart-sketch recognition,
which then maps the geometries. An app-style
software interface, similar to the ones on smart-
phones, guides the machine operator through
the steps required to start milling.
The milling machines gantr y-style design
features a cast polymer concrete frame, which
provides rigidity for precision milling. The enclo-
sure eases access to the machining area, enabling
wo r k p i e c e s to b e l o a d e d f r o m a p o s i t i o n
above the table. Conical cavities on the surface
of the wor k ta ble cre ate a bos s-in- c av it y
system that enables centering inserts on the
b o t to m o f w o r k h o l d i n g u n i t s f o r l o c a t i o n
repeatabilit y. Datron also of fers pneumatic
clamping and vacuum tables as integrated
workholding options.
Datron Dynamics Inc., call 603-672-8890
or visit datron.com.
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PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY
FOR SMART MANUFACTURING
DELTA PRODUCTS CORP.,
BOOTH E-4438
Delta offers technology for advanced machine
automation, spindle control and robotic cells to
produce smart manufacturing system solutions
designed for a variety of markets, including machine
tool, metal forming, packaging, food and bever-
age, automated assembly, material handling, oil
and gas, and elevator and crane. Applications power, eliminating time-intensive disassembly
include lean-control systems, spindle control and and assembly procedures as well as costly fas-
robotic cells. teners, chemical bonds, nylon plugs or other
Delta Products Corp., call 919-767-3813 devices used to maintain tightness. A 30-degree
or visit delta-america.com/ia. wedge lock on the female thread creates a con-
tinuous spiral contact along the entire thread
SELF-LOCKING TAPS OFFER length for improved holding power.
IMPROVED HOLDING POWER The taps are said to eliminate the thread strip-
DORMER PRAMET, BOOTH W-2464 ping that can occur when the clamping load is
Dormer Pramet says that its Union Butterfield concentrated on fewer threads, enabling clamp
self-locking taps offer efficiency in operation and load forces to spread evenly across all threads.
cost. The taps are designed to improve holding They are suitable for transportation, medical or

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industrial use. The self-locking thread form can Guide pads are brazed or solid
be produced on straight flute, spiral flute, spiral carbide, and are also available
point, roll form and the Union Butterfield line of coated. The drills are available
high-performance taps. with double rows of guide pads
Dormer Pramet, call 800-877-3745 for increased stability.
or visit dormerpramet.com. Drill Master - Eldorado Tool
Inc., call 800-658-8855
INDEXABLE GUN DRILL ENABLES or visit dmetool.com.
FASTER FEED RATES
DRILL MASTER - ELDORADO TOOL INC., SYSTEM PROVIDES SOLUTIONS
BOOTH W-2031 WITH APPLICATION ASSISTANCE,
The DME indexable gun drill from Drill Masters- PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
Eldorado Tool is manufactured from micro-grain WEILER CORP., BOOTH N-6748
carbide, and is available in several PVD wear- Weiler introduces Weiler Process Solutions (WPS)
resistant coatings. According to the company, to customers in the automotive, aerospace, med-
the drills positive rake chip breakers and chip- ical device, firearms manufacturing and general
splitting geometries enable the use of feed rates machining fields. The system is designed to
three to four times that of traditional gun drills. provide customers with application assistance
The drills are offered in diameters ranging and process development solutions to address
f rom 0.625" to 1.25" with f ive inse r t size s. their tough cleaning, machining, deburring and
Triangular inserts offer three cutting edges and finishing challenges. The companys engineering
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high-volume production environments drive down
costs and become more efficient by offering on-
site technical support, analyzing processes,
providing bottleneck solutions, assessing concerns
and providing engineering documentation.
The company also showcases its Nylox line of
brushes for automated deburring applications.
Weiler Corp., call 800-835-9999
or visit weilercorp.com.
feature to match the customers specified brand
DOVETAIL BLANKS FOR FOUR-, and model of fixture.
FIVE-A XIS MACHINING TCI Precision Metals, call 800-234-5613
TCI PRECISION METALS, BOOTH W-1279 or visit tciprecision.com.
TCI Precision Metals dovetail machine-ready
blanks are designed for use with four- or five-axis VTC FEATURES HYDROSTATIC RAM
CNC machining centers fitted with dovetail work- FOR MA XIMIZED RIGIDITY
holding fixtures. According to the company, the FIVES GIDDINGS & LEWIS, BOOTH S-8109
blanks eliminate material preparation, reducing Fives Giddings and Lewis presents the V series
chip-to-chip cycle and setup time, and increasing of vertical turning centers including the V 800
efficiency. The blanks are produced to the cus- model. The turning centers, with six table sizes
tomers specifications and include a dovetail ranging from 800 to 2,500 mm, are designed as

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machines incorporate a hydrostatic ram to max-

multi-purpose lathes for applications including
pumps, valves, gears, bearings, compressors,
wheel hubs and jet engine housings.
The V series is designed with a cast iron base
construction and of fers optional live spindle
attachments and a C-a xis table. All V series
imize rigidity for heavy, chatter-free cutting and
improved part finish. According to the company,
the hydrostatic wear-free guides require reduced
maintenance. The adjustable cross rail is a pro-
grammable positioning axis said to handle a range
of parts and minimize ram extension. Dual-scale
feedback enables precision and ensures paral-
lelism while hydraulic cylinder elevation adds
secure 1,000 kN (225,000 lbs) of mechanical
clamping force per side.
The companys V-Lock tooling system provides
an interface for modular tooling adapters, long
cutting tools and an optional right-angle milling
attachment. According to the company, modular
turning tools more than double the taper stiffness
at loads up to 1,800 Nm. Through-the-tool cool-
ant and 8-bar (116-psi) flood coolant are provided,
in addition to a 12-position tool storage disk.
Options include 70-bar (1,015-psi) high-pressure
coolant and an 18-tool storage disk. Other options
include tool and part probes to increase utilization

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ABSOLUTE MACHINE TOOLS INC.,
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5-AXIS SOLUTIONS
The Tongtai MT series of lathes, available from
Absolute Machine Tools, was developed to improve
cycle times and turning processes for the auto-
motive industry and is suitable for precision turn-
ing, high-production volume, automatic produc-
tion and insertion into mass-production lines.
The machines feature twin spindles and two
individual machining areas with separate bed
structure to limit transfer of harmonic vibration,
improving machining accuracy and surface finish.
The turrets and spindles are parallel to each other,
enabling parts that need two processes to be
BOOTH # W-1286, September 12-17, 2016

finished on one machine, the supplier says.

C u t t i n g f e e d r a t e s r a n g e f r o m 0 . 0 01 t o
5,000 mm/min.
The two individual working areas feature a
separate bed structure, which is designed to
decrease the transferring of harmonic vibration
to provide increased machining accuracy and
high-quality surface finishes. Maximum swing
diameter is 210 mm with a machining diameter
of 210 or 120 mm with a robotic arm, and a
machining length of 145 or 10 0 mm with a
robotic arm.
That series features a programmable, gantry-
t ype robotic arm that processes three-a xis

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movements and is driven by a servomotor, enabling

the operator to adjust positioning points and
moving routes. The arm provides rapid traverse
rates of 160, 120 and 35 m/min. in the X, Y and Z
axes, respectively. The rotary axis moves at 180
degrees/sec.
The lathes are equipped with 6" or 8"
chucks on 6,000- or 4,500-rpm spindles. Other
standard features include a through-coolant
spindle, A2-5 or A2-6 spindle nose, and 0.001"
indexing increments.
Absolute Machine Tools Inc., call 800-852-7825
or visit absolutemachine.com. internal face grooves with major diameters start-
ing at 0.300". The Groove N Turn inserts are
TOOLS CUT INTERNAL available in 0.004" through 0.150" sizes in 0.001"
FACE GROOVES WITH increments with options including sharp corner
MAJOR DIAMETERS through full radius. Major diameters are offered
THINBIT/KAISER TOOL CO., in 0.300", 0.750", 1.250" and 3.000". These inserts
BOOTH W-2172 are made from sub-micron grain carbide with
Kaiser Tools Groove N Turn line includes Thinbit grades for ferrous and nonferrous materials, either
tools with right-hand, counter-clockwise face uncoated or with TiN, TiCN, TiAIN or diamond
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The inserts can be used in conventional, Swiss-

type and CNC machines. Toolholders are available
in square shank sizes 5/16" through 11/4", and round
shank sizes 1/ 2 " through 1" with straight and
90-degree presentations. Groove N Turn inserts
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FOR PRECISION CUTTING,
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FLOW INTERNATIONAL CORP., BOOTH N-6217
Flow International is showcasing a variety of
new waterjet technologies for precision waterjet
cut ting and fabricating. Such technologies
include the NanoJet, a high-accuracy, small-
format machining center; a six-a xis waterjet
robotic machining center; Flows next generation
of XY systems with five-axis cutting capabilities;
and the Mach 4C with 3D model-based
rotary indexing.
Flow International Corp.,
call 800-446-3569 or visit flowwaterjet.com.
PLATFORM OFFERS REMOTE
MACHINE TOOL ANALYSIS,
LIVE ASSISTANCE
GF MACHINING SOLUTIONS, BOOTH S-8754
The rConnect central communications platform
from GF Machining Solutions offers in-depth
remote machine tool analysis. Its first phase is

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Live Remote Assistance (LRA), which enables local diagnostics center and the companys plants
customer-authorized assistance via the connec- in real time. With LRA, the manufacturer using the
tion of machines to a GF Machining Solutions system or a GF Machining Solutions technician
can conduct remote diagnostics and inspections.
The company predicts that rConnect will serve
as a bridge to technologies that could, for
example, predict the lifetime of machine compo-
nents and consumables.
GF Machining Solutions presents several other
Industr y 4.0 technologies including its True
Response to User E xpectation ( TRUE ) and
Integrated Vision Units (IVUs).
GF Machining Solutions, call 800-282-1336
or visit gfms.com/us.

STEADY REST SUPPORTS

LONG WORKPIECES
WITHOUT DEFLECTION
HARDINGE INC., BOOTH S-8738
Hardinges hydraulically operated Forkardt SRFN1
compact steady rest is a new attachment designed
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Save labor costs with
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the part. 40 Years of
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protection from coolant and chips. The gripping
range is 0.24" to 2.76" (6 to 70 mm) and the unit USA Machine
provides 5-micron repeatability. Additional features
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cylinder, a built-in safety valve, feedback for

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increased opening, a port for compressed air,
provision for centralized lubrication suitable for
grease or oil, front body profile for easy chip flow,
Fast ROI
and a steady rest unit that moves on a dovetail
with a programmable gripper.
Hardinge Inc., call 800-843-8801
or visit hardinge.com. ASK HOW WE CAN CUT
3D PRINTER FOR BUILDING YOUR COSTS BY UP TO 30%
REACTIVE, NON-REACTIVE
MATERIALS
CONCEPT LASER GMBH, BOOTH N-87
VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE:
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of building both reactive and non-reactive mate- www.cosensaws.com
rials, and produces fully dense parts with a high- (877) 935-5728
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CAM? Still satised?

volume makes it suitable for high-value materials
Explore hyperMILL and also switch

as it requires smaller powder batches. It also

to the complete CAM solution for all
enables economic fabrication of delicate dental
of your 2D, 3D, 5-axis, mill-turn, HSC
and HPC needs. products and medical implants, as well as med-
ical instruments made from titanium.
The 3D printer features a glovebox module
The helmet was programmed and produced by DAISHIN

docked onto the machine for loading/unloading

and safe handling of material, enabling quick
change-over while minimizing the risk of con-
tamination of powder materials. The build module
can be pulled out into the glovebox, which is then
flooded with argon to inert the chamber for safe
titanium processing. The 3D printer processes a
range of materials, including gold, silver alloys,
bronze, cobalt-chromium alloys and stainless
steel. Other compatible materials include titanium
and titanium alloys.
The machine is available in three different build
envelope versions: 50 50 mm, 70 70 mm and
90 90 mm, with an 80-mm-high build envelope.
Concept Laser GmbH, call 49 0 9571 1679 200
or visit concept-laser.de.

LASER FOR LARGE-PART MARKING

SCHMIDT MARKING SYSTEMS, BOOTH N-6159
Schmidt features its Class IV laser designed
for larger part-marking applications that make
enclosing the laser impractical. According to the
company, the laser speeds up the marking process
www.openmind-tech.com because there is no need to open and close a
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T he laser features a compact baseplate

measuring 30" 18", enabling integration into a
range of applications. The fiber laser is available
in the companys standard wattages ranging
from 10 to 100 W. A PC-based software package
is included. The laser is suitable for use in indus-
tries including aerospace, automotive, electron-
ics and hand tools.
Schmidt Marking Systems, call 800-323-1332
or visit gtschmidt.com.

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High Speed... High Performance

Direct Drive Rotary Tables

METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING High Acceleration / Deceleration

SYSTEM INCREASES Zero Backlash
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BUILD SPEEDS Higher RPM
SLM SOLUTIONS NA, BOOTH N-71 Direct measurement for precision positioning.
SLM Solutions features its SLM 280HL metal
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machine with a build envelope measuring 280 888-88-ROTATE
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280 350 mm. The machine features a bi-
directional re-coater blade to refresh powder on
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the build plate in both directions and reduce build
times. Multiple
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powders and promote top material quality. The
company provides open-system architecture for
materials and parameters, enabling machines to
operate in-house with standard or individualized
parameters. Individual developments on the
machine can be transferred to other machines,
such as the larger SLM 500HL platform.
SLM Solutions NA, call 248-243-5400
or visit slm-solutions.us.
DIRECT METAL
LASER SINTERING PROCESS
PROTO LABS INC., BOOTH N-72
Proto Labs offers Direct Metal Laser Sintering
(DMLS) as a service to its customers. The tech-
nology uses a laser system that draws onto a
surface of atomized metal powder, welding the
powder into a solid wherever it draws. After each
layer, a blade adds a fresh layer of powder and
repeats the process until a final metal par t
is formed.
The process is compatible with a variety of
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IS HEADED TO
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alloys, enabling prototypes to be made out of the
same material as production components. Since
the components are built layer by layer, it is pos-
sible to create internal features and passages
that could not be cast or otherwise machined.
The product produces full-strength, functional
metal parts.
Proto Labs Inc., call 877-479-3680
or visit protolabs.com.
The TE-CO Workholding Demo Van is making its
way across the Midwest, educating the industry
about innovative workholding solutions for
todays manufacturing challenges and how
TE-CO can help meet those challenges. You
have a special chance to see this presentation
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METAL 3D PRINTING, served include aircraft; space and defense; oil

MANUFACTURING SERVICES and gas; energy; industrial components; automo-
OFFERED tive; medical and dental; and consumer packaged
LINEAR AMS, BOOTH N-61 goods. Linear AMS also provides training, staff-
Linear AMS provides metal 3D printing, CAD- ing, consulting, micro-factories and R&D pods to
based technologies and traditional manufacturing apply additive manufacturing in the supply chain
ser vices to produce metal protot ypes, pre- through its Technology Transfer Programs.
production, production parts, tooling/injection Linear AMS, call 784-422-6060
molds and conformal cooling inserts. Industries or visit linearmold.com.

BALL GAGE Did You Know There is

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spherical surface of the ball gage. When
measuring a large number of holes it can be
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Put one or two flats on the ball and find
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the size. You can get into inside diameters or and bearingless, closed-seal or Pop-Off, our
inside spherical surfaces of rod end bearings. patented AutoSense designs, controlled
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Full Grip Jaws
Aluminum, Steel, or Cast Iron - diameter size range from
6-inch to 36-inch
Jaw heights range: 2-inch, 4-inch, and 6-inch
Close tolerances and concentricity easily maintained.
Allows for complete gripping of the work piece
Special oversized jaws available
Excellent for gripping thin-walled parts without distortion
Machine and tool life extended due to lighter weight
jaws, reducing mechanical stress.
Made in the USA
ISO 9001:2008
DillonManufacturing, Inc.
2115 Progress Drive | Springeld, Ohio 45505 |
Phone: 1-800-428-1133 | Fax: 1-800-634-6480 |
Email: sales4@dillonmfg.com | www.dillonmfg.com
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PART MARKING SOLUTION
FOR INDUSTRIAL TRACEABILITY
DAPRA CORP., BOOTH N-6256
The M4 Inline from Dapra Marking Systems is a
turnkey, inline, direct part-marking solution for
industrial traceability. The system is built around
permanent dot peen marking technology and
can mark text, logos, data matrix codes, bar-
codes, date codes, QR codes and serial numbers.
It is applicable for inline part marking in a range
of environments, including automated production
lines and custom-engineered systems, with
multiple mounting options and marking head
sizes available.
The system uses Dapras IDI Mark and IDI Track
technologies to deliver reliable, consistent oper-
ation and increased productivity. The system
features a 16-bus card, high-resolution color
screen, GUI interface and user-friendly software,
with no PC required for operation.
Dapra Corp., call 800-243-3344
or visit dapra.com.
CNC UNITS FOR TWO- THROUGH
FIVE-A XIS MACHINES
SMTCL AMERICAS, BOOTH S-8245
SMTCL Americas displays its new i5 CNC unit for
the companys two-, three-, four- and five-axis
machines. The control features 3D color graphics
for simulations as well as part feature program-
ming. Additional features include internet-enabled
tool management and remote diagnostic capa-
bilities to make machines more productive.
Email and text messages from the machine
c a n a l s o c o m m u n i c a te key i n fo r m a ti o n to
manufacturers. Apps are also available for both
Android and iOS devices to make the control
more productive.
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The system integrates with production systems DISTRIBUTED CONTROL NETWORK

and can provide data to measure productivity and
performance. The control also integrates with
robots, automation, measurement devices and
rotary tables. The machine can directly provide
information to production scheduling systems
and ERP systems.
SMTCL Americas, call 626-667-1192
or visit smtcl-americas.com.
FOR MACHINE TOOLS
MARPOSS CORP., BOOTH E-5516
Marposs introduces its new Bl distributed control
network for machine tools. The system architec-
ture enables real-time communication between
internal and external machine functions.
The modular system features of a central
processing unit located in the machines control

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VEGETABLE BASED
LUBRICANTS
The widest range

MECAGREEN, coolant
NEAT GREEN, neat cutting oil
panel with compact nodes to control functions
Increased tool life
Reduced consumption
such as part flagging, gaging of electromechan-
No formaldehyde biocides, ical actuation and in-process measurement,
DCHA, Boron, Chlorinated
Paraffin acoustic emission sensing, wheel balancing, and
process monitoring. All communication between
the master processing unit and the functional
CONDAT Corporation - 250 south industrial drive - Saline- MI 48176 - USA nodes is handled by a single cable, which is said
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to simplify installation, maintenance and upgrad-
ing of the control system.
The system can be adapted for a variety of
uses, from simple control applications to integrated
production and control systems. The modular
architecture enables users to modify the system
according to their specific requirements by adding
the necessary function nodes and the associated
application software packages. The system fea-
tures technical solutions for machine tools with
the companys current measuring and process
control sensors.
Components of the system are designed
to provide mechanical reliability and withstand
challenging working environments, coolants,
vibration and temperature variations as well as
the presence of waste materials produced by the
machining process.
Marposs Corp., call 248-370-0404
or visit marposs.com.

DEVICE FOR CONNECTING

MACHINES TO MONITORING
SYSTEMS
SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATIONS INC.,
BOOTH E-3240
Shop Floor Automations is introducing the Multi

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PR0TECT PARTS
Connect device, which continuously monitors the
machine operating state and other data, and
makes this information available over a network
connection using MTConnect protocol. The device
is compatible with a range of machine monitoring
software packages including Scytecs DataX-
change and Predators Machine Data Collection.
The device combines a PLC with wireless,
Ethernet, Serial RS-232 and MTConnect. from scratches and corrosion
The hardware connects to a variety of equip-
ment via built-in digital I/O, which can be overlaid
on existing signals for monitoring cycle start,
cycle stop, alarm and
status indicators such
as stack lights. These Replace fluid soaked cardboard with
inputs support 10 to 30 reusable plastic mesh.
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signals. The user can
then map the data sig-
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standard data items.
Network access is
provided by a wired Eth-
ernet (100Base-TX) con-
nection in addition to
b u i l t-i n W i F i (8 02.11
a /b/g/n). Single- and Flat,
dual-port models are available for applications
requiring DNC connectivity through serial (RS-
circular
232/422/485). or hard-to-
The device is designed for direct machine find cutting
mounting (DIN-rail mountable), and is packaged
in a compact metal chassis. The unit accepts 12
tools
to 48 VDC input power. All models are equipped are immediately available from Helfer
Tool Company.
with redundant power inputs to promote uninter- Whether you need small, precision
rupted operation for industrial applications. carbide or high speed Swiss tools,
Shop Floor Automations Inc., call 877-611-5825 or larger flat or circular tools, theyre
standards at Helfer Tool.
or visit shopfloorautomations.com. Plus carbide test pins, carbide cold-
heading punches and solid carbide
DESIGNED TO LOWER COST, drill blanks are on the shelf, too.
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INCREASE SAFETY ule, and well meet it!
NORTON | SAINT-GOBAIN, BOOTH N-7051
Nor ton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives Centur y45 FREE. WRITE FOR ALL NEW, TOOLING CATALOG.
centerless bond platform features chemistry Helfer Tool Company
designed to improve grain retention in the wheel. 3030 S. Oak, Santa Ana, CA 92707
According to the company, better grain retention Phone: (714) 557-2733 Fax: (714) 557-5312
www.helfertool.com
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cycle times, improve stock removal and increase

wheel life.
Norton | Saint-Gobain, call 800-446-1119
or visit nortonindustrial.com.

LED LIGHT FOR COMPACT SPACES

WALDMANN LIGHTING CO., BOOTH NC-451
The Mach LED Plus.forty is the newest addition
to Waldmann Lightings Mach LED Plus family of
LED machine lights. The compact fixture measures
13/4" in diameter, and is available in four lengths
and four output levels, with options of a 40-degree-
porosity for a given hardness. This results in
wheels having a hard grade with the
per formance of a sof ter grade. The wheels
are ideal for grinding, fastener and tool grinding,
automotive or aerospace components and
bearing applications.
The Centur y45 wheels are available with
ceramic, aluminum oxide, silicon carbide grain
and abrasive blends to maximize grinding safety
and efficiency. The wheels are designed to reduce

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Workholding Products
narrow or 90-degree-wide beam angle. The NEVER BUILD ANOTHER FIXTURE
models high LED-light output is designed to
deliver increased lumens in small spaces. A choice
of mounting brackets enables control of the light Want more power from
direction, increasing the possibility to customize your workholding?
the light to the machine.
The light is constructed of solid aluminum Raptor has it!
housing and 4-mm-thick safety glass. The light
is resistant to coolants, lubricants, high tempera-
tures, shocks and vibrations, the company says.
Integration and connection can be achieved with
the included M12 connector, and various models
enable optional through-wiring.
Waldmann Lighting Co., call 800-634-0007
or visit waldmannlighting.com.

SIX-A XIS GRINDER DESIGNED W-1556

FOR LONG DRILLS
ROLLOMATIC INC., BOOTHS N-7200, N-7214
Rollomatics GrindSmart 528XF is a six-axis CNC
tool grinder designed for grinding long drills with
diameter-to-length ratios ranging to 150D. A
CNC traveling workhead (sixth axis) enables the
production of long drills with flute lengths ranging
to 12". The grinder also features a SmartChanger
six-station wheel and nozzle changer with HSK0E
arbors, tested for repetitive concentricity of less
than 2 microns. In addition, the machine manu-
factures carbide or HSS drills as well as other
high-performance end mills.
A 20-hp, synchronous direct-drive grinding
spindle supports constant rpm with no chatter
marks in the flutes, producing super-sharp cutting
edges. The drill steady rest is said to support back
taper as well as a combination of back taper and
cylindrical drill relief. Other features include neck
grinding for long-reach end mills and an optional
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When We Say
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Heimatec, a name you may not knowbut you soon will.
Great reputations have a way of spreading.
A leading German supplier of live tooling, Heimatec
offers a wide assortment of tools for CNC lathes and
machining centers, plus the U-TEC quick change system,
toolholders, multi-spindle drilling heads, specialty tools and
more. Application engineering, dealer and end user training
from our Chicago headquarters, plus a nationwide network
of quality machine tool reps and dealers to serve you.
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DOVETAIL BLANKS camera for locating small coolant holes down to

0.05 mm.
Call us for Rollomatic Inc., call 866-713-6398

quantity discounts! or visit rollomaticusa.com.

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Standard sizes in stock,
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Stocked in 76PM, T15PM,
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ROBOTICALLY EQUIPPED BLAST
CABINET FOR REPEATABILITY
CLEMCO INDUSTRIES CORP., BOOTH NC-564
Clemco Industries robotically equipped blast
cabinet features two FANUC robots. The first is
a collaborative robot with pick-and-place capabil-
ity for loading and unloading parts. The other
robot blasts according to a predetermined routine.
According to the compa ny, robotic noz zle
manipulation in a blast cabinet delivers
repeatable results.
The cabinet features an automated vision
system to detect part defects. Custom enclosure
sizes and options are available for the cabinet,
which can be used with glass-bead, aluminum-
oxide, steel-grit or shot, and other recyclable
media. Possible applications include cleaning,
deburring, peening and finishing in the aerospace,
automotive and fabricated metal industries.

LARGE-CAPACITY
Clemco Industries Corp., call 636-239-4300
or visit clemcoindustries.com.

WALK-IN OVENS FIVE-A XIS CNC GRINDER

FEATURES EXTENDED
X-, Y-A XIS PATHS
SCHTTE USA, BOOTH N-7516
Schttes 325 Linear five-a xis CNC grinder
features extended X- and Y-axis movement plus
two auxiliar y slides for workpiece clamping
designed for improved grinding wheel guidance
over the entire machining envelope. The second
auxiliar y slide enables use of tool guidance,
part support, tailstock or workpiece pallets in

Standard sizes to 786 cu. ft.

Special sizes to your specs Gas & Electric models
Choice of air flow patterns Temps to 1200F
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operation. The machine typically operates in

the range of 2,500 to 4,000 rpm, accommodat-
ing micro tools, gun drills, hob cut ters and
complex geometries.
T h e g r i n d e rs u n i ve r s a l r ot a t i o n A a x i s
offers a high level of concentricity with less than
0.0001-degree resolution and pitch accuracy,
while the resolution is less than 0.1 micron on
the X, Y and Z axes. The swiveling C axis for the
grinding head has a 225-degree range of motion
with less than 0.0001-degree resolution accuracy.
With the automated collet changer, workpieces
with different diameters can be clamped with
high concentricity in the unattended loader sta-
tion. The A-axis configuration enables position-
oriented clamping of non-rotationally symmetri-
cal workpieces.
The primary motor spindle operates as fast as
12,000 rpm with a 15-kW maximum drive output,
while the grinding spindle option suppor ts a
maximum speed of 24,000 rpm. Linear axis trav-
els in the X, Y and Z axes measure 480 250
275 mm, respectively.
Preset distances from the grinding wheel to
the workpiece can be defined and held constant
when support and tool guidance systems are
used. In 3D mode, all cycle steps can be simulated,
controlled and optimized for exact estimating,
collision avoidance and external workstation
integration with other workpieces.
Schtte USA, call 800-668-4035
or visit schutteusa.com.

TWO-SPINDLE
WHEEL GRINDER CONCEPT
INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY
GLEASON CORP., BOOTH N-7000
Gleason presents the Genesis 260GX threaded
wheel grinder as the newest addition to the com-
panys Genesis machine series. The GX series
features a two-spindle concept designed for
maximum productivity with minimized idle and
setup times. The 260GX features twist control
and polish grinding for mirror-like surfaces on
workpieces. The machines software-guided
setup enables operators to change from one
workpiece to another in 20 minutes using one
tool. With the Gleason First Part Cycle, opera-
tors actuate a fully automatic workflow from setup

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to grinding of the first workpiece. The machine

features the companys integrated automation
system and the ability to interface with Gleason
GMS machines via QR code.
Gleason Corp., call 585-473-1000
or visit gleason.com.

GEAR GRINDING MACHINE

PROMOTES ADAPTABILITY
REISHAUER CORP., BOOTH N-7040
Reishauers RZ260 gear grinding machine features
increased size with adapted components designed
to handle higher loads and forces for grinding
larger gears. The machine is designed for gears
with an outside diameter of 260 mm and modules
ranging to 5 mm.
The machine can be fitted with one or two work
spindles. The version with two work spindles is
designed for minimizing load times, and the version
with one spindle is more suitable in cases in which
workpiece handling times are not critical.
When grinding gears with space limitations, the
changeable profile grinding spindle enables use
of a small plated or dressable wheel to grind gears
using the discontinuous profile method. Both ver-
sions enable a fixed or CNC-controlled axis for
swiveling the dressing tool. Compared to the fixed
dresser, with which the tools are normally workpiece-
specific, the CNC-controlled axis is said to increase
flexibility of the dressing tool, since the same tool
can be used for a range of gears.

Outstanding price-performance
Perfect ergonomics and modern esthetic
Compact design, reduced footprint
Highest thermal stability during setup
NUMROTO programming/rendering software
In-process tool monitoring and compensation
6 stations wheel changer
Tailored solutions for tool automation
New integrated high-speed robot loader

Booth N-7214 www.strausakusa.com

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According to the company, all Reishauer gear

grinding machines are equipped with the com-
panys Generating Module.
Reishauer Corp., call 847-888-3828
or visit reishauer.com.

GRINDING CENTER DESIGNED FOR

MULTI-TASK OPERATIONS
DOIMAK NORTH AMERICA, BOOTH N-6698
Doimaks RER-G Combi 500 grinding center is
designed for flexible, multi-task grinding in OD,
ID and thread processes. A rotary base turret
enables automatic grinding head transition for
multiple grinding operations in a single setting.
The machine is designed to perform external and
internal thread grinding with fully automatic tran-
sition; OD and gear grinding with optional cBN
(peeling) and B axis for tapers; and two-axis
contour dress or full-form operations. Other fea-
tures include linear roller guideways and direct-
drive technology in the accuracy of critical drives.
Late steel delivery can cripple production and drag down
profits. With on-time delivery Admiral keeps your operations
running smoothly and efficiently. Thats one reason why
fabricators and manufacturers have trusted Admiral for over
65 years. Whether you need 10 lbs. or 10,000, Admiral
delivers what you need, when you need it, with first-class
quality and personalized service. Contact us for a quote today!
4152 West 123rd Street Alsip, Illinois 60803-1869
Ph: 800-323-7055 Fax: 708-388-9317 email: sales@admiralsteel.com
Admiral is a registered trademark of Admiral Steel LLC. Alsip, Illinois.
Reg. No. 2430959. All rights reserved.

The RER 500 SL model has a length of 750

mm between centers and height of 150 mm, and
allows for a maximum part diameter of 300 mm
and maximum part weight of 100 kg. The model
also has a grinding spindle speed range of 11 to
24 kW, wheel diameter range from 350 to 400 mm
and a helix axis of -90 to +50.
Doimak North America, call 317-370-2975
or visit doimak.com.

HAND TOOL FOR USE IN

INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS
SUHNER MFG. INC., BOOTH W-1474
Suhners Rotomax 1.5 lightweight, compact,
p rofe s s i o n a l - g r a d e h a n d to o l i s d e s i g n e d
for grinding, cutting, roughing, descaling and

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VISIT US IN CHICAGO:
polishing in industrial environments such as
September 12 thru 17 forges, foundries, boiler shops and steel fabrica-
tors, as well as stainless steel processing. A
high-powered, single-phase AC motor with IP45
protection, overload isolation, soft start, active
braking and 500- to 15,000-rpm capability is
standard. A range of available shafts, including
flexible, with various tools is offered with this
HIS TOLERANCE RANGE: tool. The tool is controllable from a hand-held
0.001". unit through optional manual shutoff or a foot
switch with protective cover.
Born with the Zimmermann DNA. Suhner Mfg. Inc., call 706-235-8046
At Zimmermann we share your passion for precision and your or visit suhner.com.
fascination with details. Our milling solutions move the automotive
industry from toolmaking to prototyping. We have a team that
DEBURRING CENTERS MEDIA
demands the very best. Its in our DNA. www.zimmermann-inc.com
REACHES WHERE OTHERS
CANNOT
TECHNIKS INC., BOOTH W-1075
The Spinner deburring center from Techniks is
designed to quickly and effectively batch deburr
precision parts produced for the medical, elec-
tronic and aerospace industries. The machine
works on both ferrous and nonferrous parts.
According to the company, the Spinners pin
LeveLing the PLaying FieLd & media reaches where other media cannot, remov-

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ing light burrs and whiskers from holes, slots,
threads, cross holes and internal cavities.
Techniks Inc., call 800-597-3921

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TOOLING PACKAGE FOR

INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY
GENSWISS, BOOTH W-2356
GenSwiss offers its Lous Belet SA precision car-
bide Expert series tooling packages designed for
aluminum, brass, titanium, stainless steels and
composite material groups. The packages incor-
porate improved geometries and coatings for
drills, end mills, slotting saws, thread mills, engrav-
ing and spotting tools. The series is designed to
increase productivity, remove material at higher
rates, improve surface quality and extend tool life
over a range of industry applications within the
material groups.
The company will also feature its Utilis Multidec
Cut3000 cutoff inserts with new geometries. LIFTING HOLDING
GenSwiss, call 413-562-4800
or visit genswiss.com. Booth W-2280

TOOL LINE INCLUDES SINGLE-,

DOUBLE-SIDED INSERTS
KOMET OF AMERICA INC., BOOTH W-2400
More than 280 items comprise Komets new line
of milling tools, which includes bodies in inch and
metric sizes. The indexable milling tools feature
single- and double-sided inserts, as well as a
variety of geometries and grades for challenging
milling operations. The series includes tools
designed for face milling, profile milling and high-
speed milling processes in a variety of diameters
and configurations. The companys indexable
milling cutters cut virtually all common materials,

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including hardened steels and high-temperature

alloys, the company says.
Komet of America Inc., call 800-656-6381
or visit komet.com.

PALLET SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED

CHANGEOVER OF WORKHOLDING
POSITROL WORKHOLDING, BOOTH W-1205
The Positrol Pallet System enables workholding
to be changed quickly by a small robot. The
design offers a quick-change solution without
sacrificing rigidity, the company says. It also
enables a fully automated cell, with the robot solutions for turning, grinding, balancing, milling
loading and unloading parts as well as making and gear operations.
workholding change-overs to keep the line run- Positrol Workholding, call 513-272-0500
ning efficiently. The system is designed to account or visit positrol.com.
for chip and contamination concerns while
maintaining repeatability. DRO MEASURES
A variety of chuck and arbor designs are offered 2D GEOMETRICAL FEATURES
to enable flexibility in tailoring a workholding solu- HEIDENHAIN CORP., BOOTH E-5226
tion to help improve machining efficiencies and Heidenhains Quadra-Chek 3000 digital readout
workpiece accuracies. The company provides (DRO) features an evaluation electronics box

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SPOT COOLING
designed for measuring 2D geometrical features SINCE 1961
quickly and easily. According to the company,
the sof tware uses technology that has, until
recently, only been available on PC systems. The
software is said to be designed to suit any lab or
shop floor.
Heidenhain Corp., call 800-219-0858
or visit heidenhain.us.

HYBRID COMPARATOR WITH

VIDEO MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
CERTIFIED COMPARATOR PRODUCTS (CCP),
COLD AIR GUN
Versatile spot cooling for machining, metal repair, etc.
BOOTH E-5602
Cer tified Comparator Products, a division of Eliminates the mess, expense and safety
Quality Vision International, presents the VidiProbe, concerns of using mist coolants
designed to transform a traditional comparator Creates cold air up 100F (56C) below the
into an automated video measurement system by inlet compressed air temperature
configuring a digital video camera inside the Increase dry machining speeds up to 36%
comparators optical system. VidiProbe presents and extend tool life by up to 50%
the comparator screen image on a video monitor, Quiet operation, meets OSHA noise specs
enabling automatic measurement of a variety of
features including surfaces. In addition to sup- www.vortec.com | 800-441-7475 | sales@vortec.com
porting automation, the systems digital zoom
provides higher magnification of small features
such as those found on manufactured parts,
without the need for extra lenses.
VidiProbe is a hybrid system which can be used
either as a shop-hardened, traditional compara-
tor, or as an automatic vision system.
Certified Comparator Products (CCP), call
937-426-9677 or visit certifiedcomparator.com.

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DUAL-A XIS ROTARY TABLE FOR

FIVE-A XIS MACHINING
HAAS AUTOMATION INC., BOOTHS S-8100,
NC-612
The TRT70 dual-a xis rotar y table from Haas
Automation delivers high speed and accurate
positioning for 3+2 and full five-axis machining of
small, complex parts. The units compact size
and light weight make it a dual-axis solution, even
for small machining centers.
The table uses brushless servomotors to pro-
vide 60 foot-pounds (81.3 Nm) of torque on the
tilt axis and 40 foot-pounds (54.2 Nm) on the rotary
axis. Indexing speeds of 410 degrees/sec. on the
tilt axis and 620 degrees/sec. on the rotary axis
promote shorter cycle times. The unit provides
120 degrees of tilt and 360 degrees of rotation
to position parts to multiple angles for machining.
The precision-ground 70-mm (2.76") platter fea-
tures multiple bolt patterns and a precision through-
bore for versatile fixturing, and will swing parts as
large as 4.0" (102 mm) in diameter. The maximum
platter capacity is 3 lbs (1.4 kg).
Haas Automation Inc., call 800-331-6746

Tooling Components or visit haascnc.com.

www.mortonmachine.com WORKPIECE ACCUMULATOR

Thumb Screws ENABLES UNATTENDED
Ball Plungers OPERATION
Adjustable Handles
TECNARA TOOLING SYSTEMS INC., BOOTH
Washers
W-2071
Eye Bolts
Leveling Mounts
Tecnaras Super Ario is a compact and portable
Shoulder Screws automatic parts accumulator for Swiss machines
Handles and small CNC lathes. It does not require a
Spring Plungers special machine inter face and can operate
Ball Clamping Screws unattended. To protect the newly machined parts,
Collar Nuts the parts tray can be filled with washing fluid to
Handwheels remove oil and prevent abrasion damage. Four
Tooling Balls
models are available for a range of workpiece
Swing Bolts
sizes, work emitter heights, production rates and
Fasteners
run durations.
Manufacturer of over 4,000 product solutions designed
for OEMs and Machine Shops around the world. Tecnara Tooling Systems Inc., call 562-941-2000
or visit tecnaratools.com.

EDM BRAND FEATURES

125 Gearhart Street, Millersburg, PA 17061
e-mail: sales@mortonmachine.com
800-441-2751 Fax 717-692-2120
NEW DIGITAL POWER MANAGER
GLOBAL EDM SUPPLIES, BOOTH E-5033
Global EDM offers four machines from its Excetek
EDM brand, including three from the new WGPlus

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series. These machines include the W400GPlus,

W500GPlus with rotary table, W650GPlus and
ED400C die sinker.
The Excetek WGPlus series features a new
digital power manager for improved cutting and
accuracy. The machines are equipped with HP
AVR Circuit to promote improved accuracy for
multiple parts. Additionally, the machines feature
two options for cutting surface roughness: WGPlus/
SKD-11/Ra 0.3 micron; and WGPlus/Tungsten
Carbide/Ra 0.1 micron.
The new WGPlus builds on the popularity of
the base WG series design. That series is known
for its solid design and construction; electrolysis-
free machining; accuracies and finishes ranging
to Ra 0.3 micron; and easy-to-use Windows
Controls using a 15" touchscreen display.
Global EDM Supplies, call 800-708-1345
or visit gedms.com.

DNC COMMUNICATION PACKAGE

ENABLES MACHINE
DATA TRANSFER
REFRESH YOUR MEMORY INC., BOOTH E-3363
Innovative
Refresh Your Memory Inc. introduces its latest
version of FactoryWiz DNC offering a more pow-
Workholding
erful and varied Ethernet connection option for
data transfer to and from machines acting as FTP
Solutions
clients, FTP servers or Microsoft SMB servers.
The communication package maintains its ability
to communicate to RS-232 serial controls and
runs as a service for sending or receiving requests.
File transfers can be made from the user client, Vises Fixtures Cutters
requested directly from the machine control or
automatically sent to the machine drop box by 5THAXIS.com Booth W-1158
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DC Electric E-Series
Pneumatic A-Series
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for production. The system has the ability to col-
lect and save on machine inspection probe data.
Once captured, the data can be expor ted to
Microsoft Excel or shared with quality systems
for improved in-process review.
The large, touch-optimized buttons and inter-
face make FactoryWiz DNC easy to use for new
operators, the company says.
Refresh Your Memory Inc., call 408-224-9167
or visit factorywiz.com.
FIVE-A XIS MACHINE FEATURES
LARGE WORK ENVELOPE
OKUMA AMERICA CORP.,
BOOTH S-8500
Okumas MU-400V is a five-a xis multi-sided
machining center suited for the aerospace and
die/mold industries, featuring a large work enve-
lope and fully supported B-axis trunnion. The
axes' construction supports a range of spindles
from 12,000 to 25,000 rpm.
The machine places the pallet changes at the
back of the machine, enabling easy connection
to a Palletace flexible manufacturing system or
pallet pool. Automatic toolchangers can be con-
figured with 32- to 64-tool chain-magazine systems
and 64-plus matrix cabinets.
The MU-4000V can be equipped with the
companys Super-Nurbs function and performs
consistently from the first part to the last, regard-
less of warmup time or ambient temperatures,
the company says.
Okuma America Corp., call 704-588-7000
or visit okuma.com/americas.
CAD/CAM SOFTWARE TAILORED
TO DIE/MOLD PROGRAMMING
TEBIS AMERICA INC., BOOTH E-3230
Version 4.0 of Tebis CAD/CAM software features
a r e d e s i g n e d u s e r i n te r f a c e f o r i m p r ove d
production processes in model, mold and die
manufacturing.
The software features a new visual design,
intuitive access to functions through icons and
more feedback for the operator. The release is
suited to components with steep cavities and can
be used effectively for hard materials. It is espe-
cially productive when combined with high-per-
formance cutters, the company says. In adaptive
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roughing, the tool path is automatically adapted

to the geometry without full-width machining.
Tebis America Inc., call 877-748-3247
or visit tebis.com.

UPDATED PART-STORAGE
SYSTEM INCREASES
PRODUCTIVITY, EFFICIENCY
AUTOMATED CELLS & EQUIPMENT INC.,
BOOTH N-6260
Automated Cells & Equipment introduces the
latest version of its WS8100 Workstocker. The
system features a greater part-handling range,
increased processing speed and the ability to
handle both raw and finished parts, all while using
less floor space.
T he f lexible par t-storage system can be
used with machine-tending automation. When
coupled with a robot or pick-and-place device,
the system is said to free up operator time by
providing a continuous stream of parts to the
production system.
Access for loading the system occurs outside
the automation cell, promoting uninterrupted part
load a nd unload of the machine tool. Ze ro

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Clearance sliding doors are featured so that

additional floor space is not required during the
part loading process. The product is equipped
with eight stations with 18" of usable height and
a 100-lb capacity each. The rapid-adjust, three-
pin magazine handles 1.25" to 7.3" part diameters
when OD located, and 2.5" to 8.5" part diameters
when ID located. The system may be used as an
eight-station, raw-parts supply system or as a
four-station, raw-parts supply with the remaining
four stations utilized for finished parts.
Automated Cells & Equipment Inc.,
call 607-936-1341 or visit autocells.com.

MAGNETS FOR USE ON

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE SURFACES
STRONG HAND TOOLS, BOOTH W-2088
Strong Hand Tools inside/outside angle magnets
enable users to hold stock from the outside,
enabling clearance for inside welds, or from the
inside for outside welds. The magnets also enable
users to hold and position sheet metal; round
pipes; and square, angled and flat stock. Two

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Machines
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independent magnets inside combined with double

plates increase pull force, the company says. The
magnets can be adjusted from 30 to 270 degrees
using an allen wrench to set and lock the angle.
Additionally, a mounting hole can be used to link
t wo o r m o re m a g n ets to g eth e r fo r u s e a s
fixturing elements.
Strong Hand Tools, call 800-989-5244
The Machine Tool Search Engine
or visit stronghandtools.com.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: EXPANDED FLUID SERIES

FOR GRINDING PROCESSES
OELHELD U.S. INC., BOOTH N-7475
Oelheld U.S. is expanding its SintoGrind series
techspex.com with the IG 540. The grinding oil is designed for
flute grinding, profile grinding, and outside and

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inside diameter grinding. The oil works on a vari-

ety of materials including tungsten carbide, high
speed steel, polycrystalline diamond, cubic boron
nitride, cermet and ceramics.
The oil protects against cobalt leaching, is
low foaming and provides a high-quality surface
finish, the company says. Other features include
improved aging; flushing and cooling properties;
l o w e v a p o r a t i o n a n d m i s t i n g; a n d a h i g h
flash point.
Oelheld U.S. Inc., call 847-531-8501
or visit oelheld.com.

DIRECT-DRIVE ROTARY TABLE

SERIES FOR HIGH-SPEED
INDEXING
KOMA PRECISION INC., BOOTH S-9153
The Tsudakoma RDS series of direct-drive rotary
tables, available from Koma Precision, promotes
high speed and acceleration with reduced back-
lash. The RDS-200 model is a compact, single-
axis, 150-rpm, direct-drive rotary table with an
indexing accuracy of 10 arcseconds and a
pneumatic braking system. Various options such
as rotary joints, chucks, tailstocks, support spin-
dles and face plates are available. The RDS-200
can be integrated with machine tools that feature
FANUC or Mitsubishi controls. This series features
a slim, low-profile build for use in mass production
and high-speed indexing operations in the auto-
motive, medical and computer/electronic manu-
facturing industries.
Koma Precision Inc., call 800-249-5662
or visit komaprecision.com.

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GANTRY-TYPE MACHINING CENTER are designed to provide rigidity and accuracy for
GEARED TOWARD FIVE-A XIS larger workpieces.
APPLICATIONS Feeler, call 886 4 2359 4075
FEELER, BOOTH S-8129 or visit feeler.com
Feeler, a brand of FFG MAG, presents a range of
machining centers including the U-80 0 INSPECTION SYSTEMS TO
gantry-type machining center developed for five- REPLACE THREAD RING,
axis applications. The machines gantry-type, PLUG GAGES
U-shaped base and one-piece column structure THE JOHNSON GAGE CO., BOOTH E-5305
Johnson Gage features
its external and internal
inspection systems for
NPT, NPTF, ANPT and
Search Machines Smarter. NGT threads in accor-
dance with ASME B1.20
specifications. The indi-
cating systems are
designed to replace L1
thread ring and thread
Machine Type:
plug gages. Supplemen-
Machining Center tary capabilities enable
Drill/Tap conformance of all
thread elements and
Boring Mill
characteristics to assure
Milling Machine leak-free connections
for all applications.
Also on display is the
JCR runout and con-
centricit y inspection
system for verification
of cylindrical runout.
The Johnson Gage
Co., call 860-242-5541
or visit
johnsongage.com.

TURNING
CENTER
PROCESSES
COMPLEX
PARTS IN
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HWACHEON
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: techspex.com MACHINERY
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BOOTH S-8119
Hwacheon Machinery
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center is half turning
center, half machining
c e n te r w i t h Y- a n d
C-axis control, and can
completely manufac-
ture parts with compli-
cated shapes in a single chucking operation.
The turning center offers a 28.74"-diameter
sw i n g ove r b e d, 20.8 8" m a x i m u m c u t ti n g
diameter, 23.58" maximum cutting length and
6,000-rpm maximum spindle speed. The arrange-
ment of units in the heat-symmetrical structure is
designed to provide thermal stability and minimize
thermal displacement. The rotary tool module
inside the turret uses a cooling system to maintain
processing quality during prolonged operation.
Hwacheon Machinery America,
call 847-573-0100 or visit hwacheon.com.
MOBILE UNIT OFFERS FLEXIBILITY
MAHR FEDERAL INC., BOOTH E-5614
Mahr Federals MarSurf PS 10 is a roughness or visit mahr.com.
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m e a s u r i n g u n i t d e s i g n e d f o r m o b i l e u s e.
The 1-lb unit features a 4.3" TFT touchscreen
display a nd of fe r s fast, intuiti ve a nd use r-
frie ndly operation, the company says. T he
n e w g e n e r a t i o n m e a s u r e s 31 r o u g h n e s s
parameters and offers a list of favorite functions
in the display.
The units display adjusts to enable users to
measure in a variet y of positions, including
h o r izo nt a ll y, ve r ti c a ll y o r u ps i d e - d ow n. In
addition, the unit can be mounted on a measur-
ing stand to provide a stationar y roughness
measuring instrument for small workshops.
T h e m e a s u r i n g u n i t i s i n te n d e d f o r q u i c k
roughness testing in and on a machine
during production. It can be used in quality
assurance of milled and turned par ts,
ground and honed workpieces, on large
machine s a nd la rge wor k pie ce s, or for in-
coming inspection.
Mahr Federal Inc., call 800-343-2050
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Condat Corp. ............................................... 246
Cosen International Inc. ................................239
Cress Furnaces ............................................ 246
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Association ....................................... polybag*
Deublin Co. .................................................. 243
Digi-Pas USA, LLC ....................................... 248
Dillon Manufacturing, Inc. ............................. 244
Dix Metals, Inc. ............................................. 251
DMG MORI USA, Inc..................................... 127
Doosan Machine Tools America ...................... 11
Drries Scharmann
Technologies GmbH (DST) ........................ 162
Duplomatic Automation ................................ 252
DVS Technology America Inc. ....................... 111
Dynamic International ............................ 171, 207
E
Edge Technologies ....................................... 144
eNETDNC .................................................... 245
Eriez Magnetics ............................................ 168
Erwin Junker Machinery, Inc. ........................204
Exxon Mobil .................................................203
E-Z Burr Tool Company, Inc. .........................222
F
FANUC America Corporation ..........................77
Fastems LLC ................................................ 153
FFJournal .....................................................229
Fives Giddings & Lewis, LLC ......................... 183
Flow International Corp. ................................ 182
Fryer Machine Systems................................. 197
Fullerton Tool Co. Inc. ................................... 256
G
Gehring L.P. ................................................. 188
Gerardi S.p.A. .............................................. 248
GFMC - 2016 Global Forecasting &
Marketing Conference .................................65
Gibbs and Associates .......................................9
Glebar Co. Inc. ............................................. 219
Gosiger .......................................................225*
Gradient Lens Corporation............................ 194
GRB Innovations, LLC .................................. 240
Greenleaf Corp. ........................................ 68, 69
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Grieve Corp. ................................................. 250
Grob Systems Inc. ........................................ 177
GTI Spindle Technology, Inc. ......................... 259
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Haimer USA ...................................................54
Handtmann CNC Technologies Inc. .................91
Hardinge Grinding Group .............................. 163
Hardinge Inc. ....................................... 163, 201
Heck Industries ............................................266
Heimatec Inc. ............................................... 249
Helfer Tool Co. ............................................. 247
Heller Machine Tools .................................... 181
Hennig, Inc................................................... 195
Henning Industrial Software Inc. .................... 170
HerkulesGroup Services GmbH ....................234
Heule Tool Corporation ................................. 245
HNK ............................................................ 207
HORN USA .................................................... 13
Hurco North America .................................... 4, 5
Hwacheon Machinery America Inc. ............... 173
Hydromat Inc. .............................................. 217
Hyundai WIA ..................................................31
I Mazak Corp. ................................................ 165
INDEX TRAUB .............................................. 175
Indexing Technologies Inc. ............................ 241
Industrial Netting .......................................... 247
Ingersoll Cutting Tools ..... Inside Back Cover, 113
Iscar Metals, Inc. .................Inside Front Cover, 1
ITI Tooling Company ..................................... 241
ITW Air Management, Vortec ........................ 257
J
J&S Tool, Inc. ...............................................238
J.F. Berns Co, Inc. ........................................ 253
J.W. Done ......................................................76
Jergens Inc. ................................................. 152
Johnford ........................................................75
K Morton Machine Works ................................. 258
Kalamazoo Industries Inc. ............................. 251
KAPP Technologies ...................................... 114
Kennametal Inc. .............................................45
KMECNC .....................................................235
Koma Precision Inc. ........................................61
Korloy America, Inc. .....................................205
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Kuka Robotics Corp. .................................... 172
Kwik Mark Inc. ..............................................236
Kyocera Precision Tools Inc. (KPTI) ................ 190
Lagun Engineering Solutions .......................... 41
LANG Technovation ..................................... 184
Leistritz Advanced Technologies Corp. .......... 148
Liebherr Gear Technology, Inc.........................99
LNS America Inc. ................................. 135, 266
LOSMA, Inc. ................................................. 196
Lube USA, Inc. ............................................. 124
M
Machinemonster.com ............................261, 263
Macoser, Inc. ............................................... 248
Mahr Federal Inc. ................................... 73, 96b
Makino...........................................................39
MAPAL, Inc. ................................................. 178
Marposs Corp. ...............................................83
MASTEEL America ....................................... 199
Master Magnetics, Inc. ................................. 255
Mastercam/CNC Software, Inc........................21
Mastercut Tool Corp. .................................... 198
MC Machinery Systems, Inc. ......................... 191
Methods Machine Tools, Inc. ...........................27
Micro-Vu Corp. .............................................202
Midaco Corporation ..................................... 232
MIJET ..........................................................266
Mikron Corp. - Machines Division .................. 121
Milltronics USA, Inc. ....................................... 15
Mini-Mover Conveyors ..................................239
Missler Software, Inc. ................................... 146
Mitee-Bite Products Company ...................... 254
Mitsubishi Materials U.S.A. Corp. ....................59
Mitutoyo America Corporation ........................50
MMS Top Shops ...........................................233
Modern Machine Shop ........................ 225*, 233
Murata Machinery USA, Inc........................... 166
N
Nagel Precision, Inc. ..................................... 214
NEMI Northern Engineering & Mfg. ................ 262
Neway CNC (USA), Inc. ................................. 224
Niagara Cutter Inc. .........................................43
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Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. ............ 120
Northwestern Tools Inc. ................................ 257
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OKK USA Corporation ....................................25
Okuma America Corporation .......................... 51
OMAX Corporation ....................................... 179
OPEN MIND Technologies USA Inc................ 240
OSG USA, Inc. ............................................. 189
P SmartCAMcnc ............................................. 149
PMTS 2017 .................................................. 115
PRAB, Inc. .....................................................57
Precision Drive Systems ............................... 228
R South Bend Lathe Company ......................... 6, 7
Raptor Workholding Products ....................... 249
Renishaw Inc. .................................................72
Reshoring Initiative ....................................... 221
Rofin-Baasel Inc. .......................................... 167
ROMI .............................................................42
Rosler Metal Finishing USA, LLC ................... 186
Rotomors S.p.A. ...........................................265
Rottler ......................................................... 212
Royal Products .....................129a, 129b, 58, 266
RUD Chain, Inc. ............................................ 258
S Taiwan External Trade Development
Samchully Workholding, Inc. .............. 161a, 161b
Samsung Machine Tools ............................... 171
Sanborn Technologies .................................. 255
Sandvik Coromant ..........................................49
Sandvik Materials Technology ....................... 138
Sawblade.com ............................................. 139
SCHUNK Inc. ............................................... 125
Schwanog LLC ............................................. 131
Scientific Cutting Tools ...................................62
Seco Tools Inc. ................................. Back Cover
SGS Tool Co. ............................................... 164
Shear-Loc ....................................................266
Shop Floor Automations, Inc. ........................ 180
Shoptech Industrial Software Corp. ............... 150
Smart Attend Inc. ......................................... 155
SMTCL Americas ...........................................67
SMW Autoblok ...............................................64
Sodick Inc. ................................................... 134
Somma Tool Co. Inc. .................................... 250
Southwestern Industries, Inc. ............... 32a, 32b
SPRING Technologies Inc. ............................200
Stace Allen Chucks, Inc. ............................... 107
Starrag Group .............................................. 162
Strausak Inc. ................................................ 252
STUDER ........................................................53
Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc. .........................2
Superior Tool Service, Inc. .................... 230, 267
SwiftCarb ......................................................60
T
Council (TAITRA) ............................... 64a, 64b
Taiwan Machine Tool &
Accessory Builders Assoc. ....................... 122
Taiyo Koki .................................................... 160
Takumi USA ...................................................37
TCI Precision Metals .......................................82

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YCM ............................................................ 185
YG-1 Tool Company ...................................... 133
YMW Taps U.S.A. ......................................... 128
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GARDNER BUSINESS INDEX Metalworking

July 2016 45.3

If we ignore the spike earlier this year, the industry actually has steadily improved
since last November.
W ith a reading of 45.3, the Gardner Business
Index showed that the metalworking indus-
try contracted in July at a slightly slower rate than
in June. If we remove the significant spike in the
index in February and March, then it has slowly
and steadily improved since November 2015.
After a hard fall in new orders since March, their
rate of contraction moderated in July. Discounting
a spike in April, the production subindex was at
virtually its highest level since May 2015. Like new
orders and production, the backlog subindex also
spiked sharply in March, but absent that, this
subindex has contracted at a noticeably slower
rate since November. Employment has contracted
for 12 consecutive months, and exports have
contracted since March 2014 with generally accel-
STEVEN R. KLINE, JR.
DIRECTOR OF MARKET INTELLIGENCE
GARDNER BUSINESS MEDIA INC.
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erating contraction since this past March. Supplier
deliveries lengthened for the fifth month in a row.
Material prices had shot up dramatically in the
first half of 2016, but in July they increased at a
slower rate. They increased at a faster rate from
May to July, however, than at any time since the
first half of 2014. Prices received have decreased
since June 2015 with the rate of decrease accel-
erating since this past April. Future business
expectations improved slightly in July but remained
near their lowest level of the last three years.
Every geographic region contracted for the
third month in a row, with the Southeast as the
strongest region for the third time in five months.
It was closely followed by the North Central-East,
South Central and North Central-West.
While they are still well below the historical
average, future capital spending plans have
increased compared with one year earlier for the
fourth month in a row, therefore, the annual rate
of change has contracted at a decelerating rate
since February. The rate of contraction was the
slowest since March 2015, which is a positive sign
for capital equipment consumption.

GARDNER BUSINESS INDEX

SUBINDICES JULY JUNE % POINT DIRECTION RATE TREND
CHANGE OF CHANGE (MONTHS)
New Orders 43.3 41.0 2.3 Contracting Slower 4
Production 46.6 44.2 2.4 Contracting Slower 4
Backlog 40.4 37.8 2.6 Contracting Slower 28
Employment 46.3 46.7 -0.4 Contracting Faster 12
Exports 43.2 43.5 -0.3 Contracting Faster 28
Supplier Deliveries 51.9 52.9 -1.0 Lengthening Slower 5
Material Prices 57.0 60.2 -3.2 Increasing Less 5
Prices Received 46.4 47.9 -1.5 Decreasing More 14
Future Business
Expectations 61.3 61.0 0.3 Improving More 86
Metalworking 45.3 44.4 0.9 Contracting Slower 16

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