Software company Sigma Additive Solutions is releasing a beta version of the Print Rite3D Machine Health module. This new solution marks the beginning of the company’s software-only approach to quality assurance by allowing users to take disparate machine log files and standardise them.

At an official ceremony in November 2022, Mitsubishi Electric celebrated the expansion of its European Service Centre in Ratingen, Germany. The reason for the expansion was the integration of service for Mitsubishi Electric robots into the Mitsubishi Electric CNC service organisation.

The surface finish of moulds is crucial, because it has a major impact on the quality of the articles produced and on the lifetime of a tool. ECP is a unique method that ensures smooth surfaces. PMM Moldes from Portugal makes this technology available to other mould makers as well.

To industrialise the AM technology Digital Light Processing (DLP) from single machines to factory solutions, Siemens and Genera joined forces. Siemens’ portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware, software and digital services will further propel the partner’s fully automated clean DLP technology.

Following the promising return of the in-person event last year, Formnext wants to continue this development in 2022: More than 690 exhibitors with a booked gross exhibition space of over 50,000 m2 have registered, the organisers report.

Cannon Tipos, a Cannon Group company, specialised in tooling processes for a wide range of technologies for polymer and composite materials collaborated with Coriolis Composites for the fast and precise high-pressure resin transfer molding (HPRTM) of a near to net-shape dry preform manufactured with Coriolis’ patented automated fiber placement (AFP) technology.

Many manufacturing companies are aiming to ensure their production processes are environmentally conscious and ultimately climate-neutral. With its latest sustainability strategy, the Chiron Group and its UK partner, the Engineering Technology Group (ETG) are both committed to these efforts.

When JVD Engineering realised that its subcontract EDM supplier was looking to wind down the business, business owner Matthew Abraham-Thomas bought the business. He soon spotted an opportunity to improve EDM productivity with the acquisition of a Mitsubishi MV2400S EDM machine.

Hot runner specialist Günther has developed an app for its new smart control technology. The app ensures intuitive operation of temperature control units for hot runners and helps increase resource efficiency in injection moulding operations.

Software company MV-Tec launched the latest version (5.2) of its easy-to-use machine vision software Merlic. The latest release enables complete machine vision applications to be quickly developed and deployed without having to write a single line of code.