At the recent DMG Mori open house held at the machine tool manufacturer's Pfronten factory in Germany, a new 5-axis machining centre was launched aimed at the entry-level market.

The CAM software Hypermill from Open Mind bears the ‘DMQP’ (DMG Mori Qualified Products) quality seal and is thus part of the DMG Mori product configurator.

When machining a component, tool wear and the metal removal rate are the decisive factors. Machine learning can provide a valuable contribution to the optimisation of production costs by supporting the decision-making process for tool changes.

Heavy duty cutting places particular requirements on the machine and working processes. If this involves a material such as titanium, which is particularly hard to cut, specific know-how is necessary to deal with these requirements. Thanks to its expertise, WFL Millturn Technologies can offer a machining solution for aircraft landing gear.

The confluence of various crises continues to present the tool and die industry with new and challenging situations. The new edition of the study “Tooling in Germany“ sheds detailed light on the current situation of the German tool and die industry based on key figures.

Mapping a 3D printing process as a continuous digital process chain from the component design to the production and post-processing is the logical consequence of a digital Additive Manufacturing strategy. This objective that Aim3D has set itself has been taken up by the Naddcon research and development centre in Lichtenfels (Germany), which specialises in Additive Manufacturing.

In the fourth quarter 2022, the index of machine tool orders in Italy marked a 3.5 percent increase compared with the period October-December 2021. The absolute value of the index stood at 133.6 (base year 2015=100). This is a new record value for the quarter of reference.

Researchers are now further exploiting the potential of additive manufacturing to produce tungsten carbide-cobalt tool electrodes for electrical discharge machining with an eye on industrial applications.

Digital manufacturing software specialist, Module Works, has opened an office in Pune, India. The new office adds to the company’s facilities in Germany, Romania and Japan and will support the company’s growing international customer base.

The Italian association for the machine tool industry, Ucimu — Sistemi per Produrre, is the firs in Italy and Europe to publish a sustainability Report for capital goods this sector. Almost half of the member companies stated that they are planning to issue a Sustainability Report in the next three years. The short-middle term goals for the enterprises of the sector are an improve formalisation of policies and processes and the carrying-out of targeted communication initiatives.