Software company, Solid CAM UK, announced the arrival of its new CV5-500, from Machine Tool Partner Yamazaki Mazak UK, at its Technology Centre based in Barnsley. The high-accuracy Machining Centre is said to be an invaluable addition to the centre, in demonstrating the power of Simultaneous 5-Axis Technology.

How large is your company’s carbon footprint? What are the emissions limits for your products during operation? And how can we move towards creating a climate-neutral factory? — In the run-up to EMO Hannover 2023, experts are discussing the significance of technological and methodological advances in an industry that makes production equipment for factories around the globe.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here and moving at a great pace. With the dawn of a new age upon us, nobody can fully calculate the impact and benefits the new world of industrial connectivity will have upon us. For some, digitalisation and talk of a fourth industrial revolution still creates confusion, bewilderment and a lack of interest — all caused by a lack of education.

Plymouth-based company Tooltech manufactures tooling for the aerospace and power generation sectors, producing injection moulds and all the fixturing that goes alongside that. In the past the company hat a lot of surface finish problems and there were a lot of collisions. This is why the Devon manufacturer opted for CAM software from Open Mind Technologies.

The new claim of the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association) is “Innovate Manufacturing”. It is a clarion call to specialists all over the world to come to EMO Hannover from 18 to 23 September 2023.

Automation tasks are becoming ever more challenging. Using intelligent software in combination with the relevant automation solutions not only enables workpieces to be loaded and unloaded but also means that machine tools can be set up fully automatically through automatic replacement of tools and clamping devices.

Leibniz University Hannover’s Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools has researched whether it is possible to save energy when conducting machining work by adjusting coolant lubricant pressure (CL pressure). Open Mind provided financial support for the project and supplied the component geometry and programming for milling and analyses.

Now available from Floyd Automatic Tooling is the expanded range of Masa Microconic over-grip spindle collets. These collets offer precise and stable clamping of small workpieces in the sub-spindle of sliding head machines.

EDM machine tool specialist Excetek has focused its innovation and development on addressing energy efficiency demands. From its generators designed to work at peak effectiveness to the ability of the machines to operate for long periods unattended, overnight on lower tariff electricity, the machine tools provide ‘more miles per gallon’.

Twelve years after the first VDW symposium in Thailand's capital Bangkok and after more than two years of Covid, the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has once again held a symposium in the city as a face-to-face event.