Injection moulding of electronics items grows
At the K-2007 exhibition, a compact, robotic 1000kN all-electric plastics injection moulding cell achieves high injection speeds, high pressures, excellent precision and dynamics and best performance ...
JauchSchmider Names New UK Agent
JauchSchmider GmbH & Co. KG (JS), a German company that focuses on the design and production of state-of-the-art rotary indexing tables and high-speed-rotation spindles for electrical discharge ma...
WorkNC User Seminars Popular in Japan
Japan’s most-used automatic computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system is WorkNC. That product’s French developer, Sescoi, conducted a series of 12 WorkNC G3 seminars across Japan this Sept...
Spanish Send Trade Mission to Shanghai
A trade mission organized by AFM, the Spanish Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers, visited Shanghai, China, during the week of November 5–9. The 12 Spanish companies involved were Agme, Al...
TekSoft Renamed Geometric Technologies
Since mid-October, the US CAM technology provider TekSoft Inc., based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has been doing business under its new name: Geometric Technologies Inc. The name change followed a decisio...
German Machine Tool Makers Stage
Around 600 top-level experts representing India’s automobile and related supplier industries, mechanical engineering, electronics manufacturing, and aerospace, attended a pair of symposia staged...
Studer Engineer Wins World Skills Competition in Shizuoka, Japan
Adrian Trachsel, a 22-year-old mechatronic engineer with Fritz Studer AG, was awarded a gold medal at the World Skills competition held in mid-November in Shizuoka, Japan. Trachsel and his team partne...
Hipermoulding Software Launched
The final European Hipermoulding project meeting, held recently in the Netherlands, saw the launch of Hipermoulding software for thermal management in injection moulds. This R&D project, led in th...
Manufacturing employment, compensation, recruiting difficulty down
The current SHRM/Rutgers LINE® survey indicates that employment expectations for December 2007 have dropped in the manufacturing sector. New-hire compensation is lower than it was a year ago. The ...
U. S. Steel proposes $1 billion capital investment in Clairton Plant
United States Steel Corp. has announced that it is considering a $1 billion capital investment program at its Clairton Plant coke making operation near Pittsburgh that will enhance the company’s...
Flow signs option agreement to acquire OMAX
Flow International Corp., a developer and manufacturer of industrial waterjet machines used for cutting and cleaning applications, announced that it has signed an exclusive option agreement to negotia...
Red Bud Industries announces new building expansion
Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, Ill., a manufacturer of coil processing equipment, recently announced an expansion that will double its manufacturing facility to more than 200,000 sq. ft. The expansion w...
Choosing a gouging method
Advantages and disadvantages of plasma, air carbon-arc gouging By Robert Fernicola May 9, 2006 Plasma gouging and air carbon-arc gouging have their advantages and disadvantages. The most distinct diff...
FABTECH Intl. & AWS Welding Show returns to Chicago
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show, the largest North American showcase of metal forming, fabricating, stamping, tube and pipe, and welding equipment and technology, will retur...
How FORGINGS compare to Reinforced Plastics/Composite (RP/C)
Forgings offer greater productivity. New advanced-composite part designs may often require long lead times and substantial development costs. The high production rates possible in forging cannot yet b...
How FORGINGS compare to Powder Metal Parts (P/M)
Forgings are stronger. Low standard mechanical properties (e.g. tensile strength) are typical of P/M parts. The grain flow of a forging ensures strength at critical stress points. Forgings offer highe...
How FORGINGS compare to Machined Bar/Plate
Forgings offer broader size range of desired material grades. Sizes and shapes of products made from steel bar and plate are limited to the dimensions in which these materials are supplied. Often, for...
How FORGINGS compare to Weldments/Fabrications
Forgings offer production economies, material savings. Welded fabrications are more costly in high volume production runs. In fact, fabricated parts are a traditional source of forging conversions as ...
How FORGINGS compare to Castings
Forgings are stronger. Casting cannot obtain the strengthening effects of hot and cold working. Forging surpasses casting in predictable strength properties – producing superior strength that is...
Los avances en automatizacíon amplían las capacidades del punzonado
How to automate your punching operation By Anthony Marzullo July 10, 2007 Increasingly metal fabricators are turning to automated equipment to reduce production downtime and costs, streamline manufact...