Elmet’s trade fair and exhibition stands already drew large crowds last year. Be it at K, the leading international trade fair for the plastics industry, or at FIP in Lyon — the Upper Austrian specialist in developing and producing high-quality liquid silicone parts, dosing systems, and mould making succeeded in imparting a great deal of knowledge. And the company will be appearing at a wide variety of trade fairs again in 2023, including the renowned Fakuma in Friedrichshafen.

The virtual commissioning of customer-specific machines has the greatest leverage in terms of improving product quality, costs and throughput time. Until now, model creation has been costly and uneconomical due to the lack of mechatronic modular building block systems. Let's take a look at the effects of digital twins for virtual commissioning.

Open Mind Technologies, a CAD/CAM developer, is expanding its technical sales team in Sweden due to increased demand, bringing on board Fredrik Josefsson, a seasoned CAM expert with extensive experience in various industries, at its Gothenburg subsidiary.

At AMB 2022, Haimer will present an advanced version of its Automation Cube, which allows automated shrinking and presetting of cutting tools. The handling tasks are performed by a cobot that supports the shrinking and unshrinking process as well as the measuring process of tools with highly accurate length repeatability.

The new home of grinding technology, Grinding Hub, celebrated its premiere in Stuttgart in May 2022. More than 370 well-known manufacturers from 23 countries presented numerous innovations across the entire grinding technology process chain — with a clear trend towards automation and digitalisation.

Manufacturer of parts, photopolymer resins and 3D printers Photocentric will be exhibiting at Formnext 2022 showcasing a wide range of exhibits 3D printed at its purpose-built print farm in Peterborough, UK.

A pair of competitively-priced CNC turning centres, T1 and T2, has been launched by DMG Mori aimed at the entry-level market. Both machines have a 12-station turret, with VDI 30 tooling on the smaller lathe and VDI 40 on the larger model. They are available as 2-axis lathes and in 3-axis configuration with a C-axis spindle and driven tools.

To industrialise the AM technology Digital Light Processing (DLP) from single machines to factory solutions, Siemens and Genera joined forces. Siemens’ portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware, software and digital services will further propel the partner’s fully automated clean DLP technology.

Plastics are a popular material in automotive engineering due to their lightweight and lower cost. The lower strength compared to metals can be compensated for by using high-performance polymers or combining plastics with glass or carbon fibres. The components are manufactured using injection moulding.

The specialist for motion control and positioning systems, Aerotech, will be exhibiting at Photonex in Birmingham from 07 to 08 December, at NEC on stand 317. The new IFOV function for expanding the field of view during laser scanning will be demonstrated on a demo system, as well as the latest features of the Automation1 control platform.