Smaller enterprises with machining operations are keen to understand how they can stay competitive in the era of digitalisation, Industry 4.0, and IoT. The digital process already implemented in these companies, based on NC (Numerical Control) code generated from CAD (Computer-Aided Design) data, could serve as a starting point.

Small lot sizes — short delivery times. There’s no better way to describe the greatest challenge the global manufacturing industry is facing. How do you address it? Perfection in production, as one example, is the foundation for sustainable competitiveness. But what role does simulation play in these efforts?

The CAD/CAM software supplier Cimatron has released version 2024 with stronger core capabilities across all areas of the product, while incorporating new technology through collaboration with Sandvik Coromant. Cimatron 2024 simplifies and automates many tasks for tool designers for higher productivity and more options for digital connection.

Software company Open Mind will focus on turning, milling, and the importance of CAM software and MES in connected manufacturing environments at EMO 2023.

Installation of a Roeders 5-axis machining centre at Circle in Weilmünster, Germany, has transformed the engineering service provider's ability to deliver machined prototypes and small batches of components in short lead times.

WFL Millturn Technologies will present two turning-boring-milling machines at EMO: the M50 Millturn / 3,000 mm and the M80X Millturn / 4,500 mm. Visitors can experience the M80X live with a demonstration of the machining of a gear shaft, including measurement of the gear teeth. Both machines feature a new design and are equipped with Sinumerik One.

The Silent Tools Plus boring bar from Sandvik Coromant is designed to enhance productivity and flexibility in machining processes through the use of integrated sensors that monitor temperature, deflection, surface quality, and load. This offers several advantages for operators and the product quality.

One of the key measures of sustainable manufacturing is the reduction or elimination, where possible, of waste. How can CNC simulation and optimisation software minimise or eliminate the various types of waste within a manufacturing business, with an underlying aim to reduce, re-use and recycle?

With a wealth of data generated from production processes of all kinds, shops need to understand how to use that data to their advantage. Now, progressive manufacturers can move toward even greater benefits with software that fulfills the promises of Industry 4.0.

At JEC World 2023, one of the largest global composites shows, held 25th to 27th April, at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, CG Tech will demonstrate how advanced programming strategies and simulation can lead to the production of better composite parts.