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.

The confirmed integration, including data associativity, is said to allow for continuous workflows from design through to CNC manufacturing.

Changes to user interaction are said to improve workflow.

Germany – Heller’s CP 4000, a twin-pallet change, horizontal-spindle, 5-axis mill-turn centre debuted in April at Mach 2016. The 800 mm x 800 mm x 1.045 mm centre is equipped with a new rigid PCU (power cutting universal) HSK 63 spindle.

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.

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

Developers of Mastercam, CNC Software, has just launched a new website, Masters of CAM, for its users worldwide.

UK – Yamazaki Mazak is taking 12 machines to AMB 2016, exhibiting the full breath of its machine range and new Smooth Technology, the world’s fastest CNC, the company claims.

Germany –Skantek is the main supplier for coolant nozzles for CNC machines to large tooling distribution groups and CNC machines manufacturers in Germany.

US /Europe – US-based CNC machine tool manufacturer, Haas Automation, will use the upcoming AMB 2016 exhibition in Stuttgart to present an ‘advance sight’ of a new Y-axis CNC turning centre, as well as a prototype of a newly developed compact mill for micro-machining, and two new CNC rotary tables.