Germany/UK - Aerospace and other manufacturing sectors likely to adopt hybrid machine tools once volume production brings costs down.

Additive manufacturing of components can be an economical solution for many companies. However, there are several cost factors that should be considered.

Due to its capability to perform high-precsion, wire erosion is applied in different industries. Our product tests takes a closer look at three different wire erosion machines.

Aircraft manufacturers, automotive OEMs and designers: When rapid production of small batches of complex parts is required, more and more companies are turning to 3D metal printing. However, there are ways for traditional foundries to make friends with the competing manufacturing method.

The more a cutting edge is tangentially engaged during milling, the faster the machining. LMT Tools has found a solution for radial cutters that ensures significantly shorter throughput times and better surface quality. What exactly is behind the increase in performance and where are radial cutters used?

There is new movement in the portal milling machine market. Although centres are still designed to produce as many chips as possible for decades to come, this is no longer enough. In precision, flexibility and cost-effectiveness, the heavyweights are getting nearer and nearer to the small and medium-sized processing units.

Yamazaki Mazak has announced that it is now offering Siemens Sinumerik controls as an alternative CNC option.

At the Solidworks World 2017 in Los Angeles, CNC Software will present its latest machining software Mastercam 2017 for Solidworks package. This features 3D machining enhancements, Multiaxis improvements, and so much more, the company says.

CAD/CAM - In the early 2000s, Ohio-based Atlantic Tool & Die (ATD) found that their CAD/CAM software was not able to cope with the company's increasingly challenging design demands. The new solution they chose, Visi CAD/CAM by Vero Software, was able to fulfill this complex range of tool and die needs.

The die and mould sector has progressed by leaps and bounds since the turn of the millennium. The factors behind the advances are diverse, but their effects have changed shops around the world, from the biggest OEMs to the smallest family companies.