:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1804200/1804279/original.jpg "“The sale of Krauss Maffei Austria is part of our strategic realignment”, says Dr. Michael Ruf, CEO of Krauss Maffei.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1800500/1800549/original.jpg "Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Prokop, Chairman of the VDW, on the occasion of the online annual press conference on February 22, 2021: \"China, the world's largest market with machine tool consumption of over 18 billion euros, will lose ground in 2020 for the third time in a row, but at a comparatively moderate rate of only 7 percent. However, with a share of just over one-third, the Middle Kingdom remains the top market and is three times larger than the USA in second place, which lost 23 percent.\"")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1800500/1800568/original.jpg "Headquartered in Mlada Boleslav, Benet Automotive is a Tier 1 supplier of automotive composite components.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1800500/1800512/original.jpg "The Italian machine tool market registered a significant tropdown during 2020.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1804600/1804633/original.jpg "AWK'21's new guiding theme, “Turning Data into Sustainability”, is designed to show how manufacturing companies can use on-demand data collection and machine learning to achieve rapid, error-free improvements in serial production.")
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:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1803400/1803489/original.jpg "Industrial Automation Fair (SIAF) Guangzhou and the concurrent Asiamold fair will be held from 3 – 5 March 2021.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1802600/1802686/original.jpg "Arburg's fair stand at Chinaplas 2019.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1796700/1796735/original.jpg "At Hasco the consistent use of high-quality standardised components permits considerable time and cost savings.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1794800/1794874/original.jpg "The new thermal protection hose offers optimum thermal insulation and outstanding mechanical protection.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1792600/1792661/original.jpg "Installation example of Meusburger’s new E 3050 leaf spring roll stopper type A in a cavity plate.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1785500/1785538/original.jpg "Moldmaker BBG presents smart molds for use in Industry 4.0 applications and in smart factory environments.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1803400/1803411/original.jpg "Currently, various plastics and metals dominate 3D printing. In their shadow, however, ceramics, sand and concrete are also increasingly being used in new areas of application.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1803300/1803353/original.jpg "Amexci invested in a SLM500 from SLM Solutions.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1801300/1801349/original.jpg "The Neo 800 3D printer from RPS is designed to produce large parts with exceptional surface quality and accuracy.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1798600/1798643/original.jpg "Micro Arch 3D DLP system s240: BMF's high-precision 3D printers for microfabrication are available now.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1802600/1802606/original.jpg "The Eneska marker 300 marking system can be used universally – logos, texts, images, graphics, numbering and QR codes are engraved in consistent quality up to a maximum depth of 1.3 mm.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1802600/1802600/original.jpg "Inomed tools from Inovatools are ideal for machining the kinds of materials required in medical engineering such as bone compression plates made from titanium.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1794200/1794201/original.jpg "Chiron's DZ22W 5-axis machining centre has a twin-spindle configuration that can simultaneously work at speed in the 620 by 650 by 600 mm X, Y and Z-axes work envelope.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1804600/1804654/original.jpg "Thomson Industries released its new 3D CAD configurator for precision ball screws in cooperation with Cadenas, enabling engineers to complete the selection process in just a few minutes.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1804600/1804616/original.jpg "The software automatically creates support geometries for BMF's Microarch 3D printers.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1799900/1799926/original.jpg "Sketch Turn with integrated MW Cutting Simulation.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1798000/1798062/original.jpg "MES of the future: This information density is what medium-sized manufacturing companies want.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1800500/1800592/original.jpg "Compared to conventional hot runners, melt in the Ultrashot Injection System experiences fewer high-pressure injection cycles, thus preserving the original resin properties.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1794200/1794203/original.jpg "The nozzle design developed by an Austrian-based mold builder abandons the usual round opening for a wide slit to allow for up to 25% faster cycle times, lower shear and injection pressure.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1791600/1791622/original.jpg "The Flat Die Unit (FDU) passes melt through a long slit instead of a circular hole like a conventional nozzle. The result is said to be faster injection of more melt through a thinner gate opening, with lower shear and injection pressure, lower melt temperature and up to 25% faster cycle time in several projects.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1781200/1781291/original.jpg "The Streamrunner permits production in a very small space.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1795200/1795216/original.jpg "The Agie-Charmilles Drill 20 can be used to drill holes with depths up to 200 mm and can accommodate small electrodes with diameters ranging from 0.1 – 0.3 mm making it ideal for a range of applications including drilling fine start holes on lead frames or high-speed stamping moulds.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1777100/1777169/original.jpg "The machine, which is sited at the company’s Birmingham facility, adds to an identical model at its Gloucester site – and becomes the sixth Sodick EDM across all three Excel Precision locations (Leeds, Gloucester and Birmingham).")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1775300/1775368/original.jpg "With the 5-axis high-speed milling machines Mikron MILL S and X, complex surfaces of a medical device e.g. made of stainless steel, can be produced quickly, very precisely and with a high surface quality.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1771400/1771449/original.jpg "In the 20 years since Sodick launched the world’s first linear motor driven EDM the company has shipped more than 50,000 such machines.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1800600/1800612/original.jpg "Thanks to the Blue Light Equalizer and fast data processing, Atos Q features an outstanding performance.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1773400/1773491/original.jpg "Fully automated measurement of complex tubular space frames for BMW’s all-electric Mini Cooper SE")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1770100/1770152/original.jpg "The new Wilson RH2150 hardness tester is an appropriate solution for a large range of applications in quality control and research environments.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1768300/1768310/original.jpg "The new flexible and precise hand-held laser scanning system Zeiss T-Scan hawk gathers measurement data in production environments, labs or at the workbench.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1795100/1795132/original.jpg "Meusburger offers an extensive and systematic range of rolling and sliding guides.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1783500/1783564/original.jpg "Winter brings a range of new products at Tsubaki Kabelschlepp — a new size in the Uniflex Advanced series, for example.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1772200/1772280/original.jpg "Environmental compliance, energy performance and top-notch reliability: Dyneo+ motor represents a drive solution that is perfectly suited to the optimised productivity needs of industrial refrigeration.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1769900/1769942/original.jpg "The Big Kaiser HDC tool holders are simple to use with only a single Allen key wrench needed to clamp or loosen the cutting tool, making tool changes fast and easy without the need for special equipment.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1800500/1800521/original.jpg "Kennet Aviation, a leading restorer of vintage aeroplanes, has increased its capacity and ability to produce challenging bespoke parts by investing in a new turning centre from Yamazaki Mazak.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1773100/1773105/original.jpg "Joke Technology had already responded some time ago to the growing demand in the field of additive manufacturing with its own online shop for 3D finish.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1769200/1769228/original.jpg "The Wuppermann Group is a medium-sized family business based in Leverkusen, Germany, which has been successfully involved in steel processing for over 145 years.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1802800/1802889/original.jpg "Laboratory weathering of plastic components is just one test of many. Together with industrial partners, the Darmstadt researchers adapt it to the respective problem.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1799300/1799334/original.jpg "Out of a first fund of € 40 million, the corporate venture capital arm of Trumpf invests globally in early-stage start-ups.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1795100/1795166/original.jpg "2k moulding technology blends two materials or two different colour materials into one ending plastic part by using a specific 2k injection moulding machine.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1744400/1744497/original.jpg "Johan Bäckström is the new CEO of VBN Components.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1795200/1795216/original.jpg "The Agie-Charmilles Drill 20 can be used to drill holes with depths up to 200 mm and can accommodate small electrodes with diameters ranging from 0.1 – 0.3 mm making it ideal for a range of applications including drilling fine start holes on lead frames or high-speed stamping moulds.")
Electrical discharge machining
Introducing EDM hole drilling – the non-contact drilling process
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1777100/1777169/original.jpg "The machine, which is sited at the company’s Birmingham facility, adds to an identical model at its Gloucester site – and becomes the sixth Sodick EDM across all three Excel Precision locations (Leeds, Gloucester and Birmingham).")
Case Study: EDM
Not afraid to invest
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1775300/1775368/original.jpg "With the 5-axis high-speed milling machines Mikron MILL S and X, complex surfaces of a medical device e.g. made of stainless steel, can be produced quickly, very precisely and with a high surface quality.")
Case Study: Machining Equipment
Small batch sizes of medical instruments economical and safe
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1771400/1771449/original.jpg "In the 20 years since Sodick launched the world’s first linear motor driven EDM the company has shipped more than 50,000 such machines.")
Sodick
High-precision EDM die sink machines
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1749900/1749952/original.jpg "New ultrasonic polisher")
NSK America Corporation
Ultrasonic polisher
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1746800/1746847/original.jpg "With the new Eagle G50 Competiton series, OPS-Ingersoll has succeeded in combining the workshop suitability of the Gantry Eagle 500 with the precision components of the G5 Precision.")
EDM
Highest precision in an economic package
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1745800/1745853/original.jpg "The new EDM machine was easy to learn, Numatic explained.")
Case Study: EDM
Numatic toolroom gets capability boost with new die-sink EDM
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1744500/1744560/original.jpg "Wire EDM wheel")
Company News
CAMWorks announces partnership with CIMTechnology
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1730000/1730032/original.jpg "Sodick equipment installed at CA Models (with Colin Hogg, Head of Wire Erosion, CA Models)")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1802600/1802604/original.jpg "As the system is highly versatile, marking is outstanding even on rounded components.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1802500/1802598/original.jpg "Inomed tools from Inovatools are ideal for machining the kinds of materials required in medical engineering such as bone compression plates made from titanium.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1800600/1800610/original.jpg "Thanks to the Blue Light Equalizer and fast data processing, Atos Q features an outstanding performance.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1800500/1800550/original.jpg "Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, Managing Director VDW, is confident that the virtual Metav in March with its three-pronged structure: the Virtual Exhibition, Intelligent Matchmaking and the Web Sessions will be a success.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1724800/1724854/original.jpg "The most commonly used machining techniques to manufacture turbine disc fir-tree roots have traditionally been physical machining processes: Broaching, grinding and milling.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1711900/1711933/original.jpg "Betterbrass is the latest EDM wire from Bedra.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1697200/1697273/original.jpg "Moulding tool manufacturing with EDM.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1697100/1697103/original.jpg "STPR230-1/3 Sodick technology installed at Strix, operator: wire erosion technician Mike Alexander.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1638000/1638092/original.jpg "Narrow incision using fine abrasive waterjet.")