Austria – For specialist tool and mould-making company Lercher Werkzeugbau of Klaus, Austria, it was the need for reliability and precision, not short processing times, that determined their choice of machinery processes. For them, grinding has tremendous advantages over EDM and hard milling.

Germany – Standards are expected to play a major role in the success or failure of Industry 4.0. Because the road to digital transformation requires a digital twin of the physical product, the pressure to standardise also includes the product data itself. Cutting tools are no exception to this rule.

Big Kaiser presents Dyna Force, a testing device for determining the withdrawal force of machine tool spindles.

We caught up with IMC President and CEO Jacob Harpaz at AMB in Stuttgart to chat about how the cutting tool supplier Iscar is performing after U.S. billionaire Warren Buffet bought the remaining 20% of the IMC International Metalworking Companies last year, seven years after snatching up 80% of the company.

The combination of high-precision machine tools and special diamond cutters offers an economically and technically convincing alternative for machining dies for plastic parts with particularly high surface quality requirements such as optical lenses.

Rapid market developments and innovations challenge the adaptability of tool and mould making. With its new Mikron Mill P U series of 5-axis simultaneous milling machines, GF Machining Solutions provides these manufacturers with future-proof flexibility.

The fax and telephone era in the steel and metal trading business is coming to an end. The winners will be the traders who have been quick and purposeful in the digitisation of their processes. The development will lead to fully automatic steel supply via the Internet of Things – with or without steel traders.

The contract manufacturer MCC Tooling has decided to program its CNC grinding machines and its wire EDM machine with CAD/CAM software in the future. The selected software is on the one hand easy to use; on the other hand, it shortens the offer, programming and processing times.

Germany/ Japan: Okuma and 5ME, a leading pioneer in cryogenic machining, are joining forces to educate the machining world on the benefits of using internal Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) instead of coolant during the cutting process.

A version of the hybrid machine is to be displayed at Euromold 2013.