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.

At Motek, Cadenas and Norelem celebrated the tenth annual Engineering Newcomer awards, honoring fresh talents in engineering and construction. With a surge in creative project submissions this year, the expert jury faced a challenging task to select the top three.

Johannes Brinkmann (51) was 40 years old when he had to file for the insolvency of the family-run tool and mould making company. In this interview, the current managing director of the form & function company from Hesse talks, among other things, about how this came about, how he assesses the current situation of the industry and why he would like to pass on his wealth of experience in good time.

3D printed components were manufactured by CRP USA for the Portland State Aerospace Society’s Oresat0 Cube Sat, Oregon’s first satellite, deployed into low earth orbit in March 2021 and successfully operating since then. A turnstile antenna assembly, a star tracker camera lens and sensor assembly, and a battery assembly were all 3D printed out of Windform LX 3.0.

In the opinion of Hurco Europe, one of the exhibitors at this year’s Southern Manufacturing & Electronics exhibition, held from 7th to 9th February 2023 at the Farnborough International Exhibition Centre, the show certainly delivered in terms of visitor footfall and customer enquiries.

The manufacturer of holemaking and finishing cutting tools for the metal-cutting industry, Allied Machine and Engineering, continues to expand the Wohlhaupter boring tool product line with the launch of the 410 series fine boring heads as well as the expansion of the 464 series.

The 22nd edition of Lamiera, the international exhibition for sheet metal processing and sheet metal forming machines and related technologies, is scheduled to take place at Fieramilano Rho from 10 to 13 May 2023.

When machining a component, tool wear and the metal removal rate are the decisive factors. Machine learning can provide a valuable contribution to the optimisation of production costs by supporting the decision-making process for tool changes.

Despite all the headwinds in the economy, manufacturing has had a buoyant 2022, if Hurco's experience selling its machine tools is anything to go by. Order intake in monetary value was close to a record high, beaten only just by the exceptional figures posted in 2018.

3D printing company Stratasys has announced a new certification program for FDM 3D printer operators and engineers, the first in a series of certification programs for Stratasys 3D printer users.