Cutting tool manufacturer Mikron Tool expands its Crazy Mill Cool P&S milling cutter family, developed for roughing and finishing operations, with a toric version.

Many manufacturing companies are expanding their product portfolios and service offerings in order to attract a broader customer base. This gives production companies greater independence from sectors such as the automotive or aerospace industries. Medical technology is an example of such market expansion, although it does present a wide range of challenges.

Linear guides and rolling bearings from NSK find use in many advanced automation systems for plastic injection moulding processes, including the industrial robots manufactured by Campetella Robotic Center.

Paul Horn has extended its circular interpolation system for slot milling of grooves. The circular milling system offers users several process advantages: it is fast, reliable and achieves good surface finish.

UK — At Mach 2022, Horn will present a modular system for reaming large diameter holes, an extended range of products for circular interpolation milling of holes down to 8 mm diameter, two new, high-performance coatings as well as an expanded range of solid carbide end mills.

As a useful addition to its slide system portfolio, Knarr has standardised maintenance-free, self-lubricating slide rails. Embedded graphite inserts provide lubrication during operation. This creates a lubricating film between the slide and the guide rail, which makes additional greasing superfluous.

With a new turn-milling centre, Okuma will make a trade fair debut in the UK. The range presented at the stand of the Japanese company also comprises a vertical machining centre and Industry 4.0 applications.

Unmanned production, 24/7. For many manufacturing companies, this is one of the key factors for success in this highly competitive field. This has been the case for turning, milling and drilling technologies for some time, but increasingly now also for fine machining. Exhibitors at Grinding Hub will be providing a first glimpse of their solutions for achieving significant increases in productivity and reproducibility levels.

Software developer Open Mind has upgraded its Hypermill CAM software for machine- and controller-independent NC programming. These include optimisations for Virtual Machining, enhancements to the 5-axis strategies for better results in terms of surface quality, new options for 2D functionalities, as well as efficient innovations in the area of electrode manufacturing that deliver even more convenient and faster programming.

Trochoidal machining requires both dynamics and stability because the tool moves with very high feed rates within the material and then at the maximum feed rate outside the material. Inovatools offers a range of TSC tool solutions that, depending on the application and for deep cavities, achieve shorter machining times than conventional slot milling methods.