BAW Precision Engineering emerged from the global downturn under new ownership in July 2010 and investment in a 5-axis machining centre from Hurco.

One OEM’s equation for machine tool leadership.
The Chiba Campus, opened in October 2003, is Mori Seiki’s main manufacturing facility for multi-axis machines.

The NV4000 DCG …

A federal election has yet to be called, but if the recent slew of government funding announcements for the manufacturing sector are any indicator, we may be heading into a fall election. The majority of the funding announcements are for manufacturers in Quebec, an even stronger sign the government is trying to win votes in a province that has not had much love for the Conservative party in the past two decades. Today alone, the government announced this morning more than $1.6 million in federal funding for two organizations: $915,000 for start-up bus manufacturer Autobus Lion Inc., Saint-Jerome, QC, to build a manufacturing plant; and another $731,250 for Aero Montreal, a public-private partnership think tank (founding member of the organization is Bombardier Inc.’s president and CEO Pierre Beaudoin) with a mission to boost Quebec’s aerospace sector’s competitiveness on the global market.

Available through Hurco Europe, the RXP range of machining centres from German manufacturer Roeders provides high-speed cutting (HSC) in tool- and mould-making applications. The machining centres are suitable for processing a range of materials from graphite and copper electrodes to hardened tool steel

Patricia L. Smith03/01/1999Everyone’s talking linear motors for high speed machining, but what are the roadblocks to total acceptance of the technology?
An illustration from Anorad Corp. shows how linear motors are integrated …

Hardinge, Inc. (www.hardingetooling.com) will introduce larger capacity 16C and 3J style indexers featuring its A2-5 spindle design. A variety of standard 16C or 3J spindle tooling will mount directly in or on the spindle without …

NUM’s CNC technology was used to upgrade the programming software and motion control system on an old, floor-type horizontal boring mill to state-of-the-art standards.

With the right design and technology, even “old” machine …

Patricia L. Smith10/01/2002A new HMC proves that fast is good, but increased uptime is even better.
Mori Seiki’s NH5000 horizontal machining center incorporates several features — including transparent machine covers, a new concept …

For its typical tire-mold manufacturing, King Machine documents a 30% to 50% increase in efficiency as a result of a CNC retrofit from Siemens.

King Machine breathed productive life into its Johnsford VMC …

EC-300 HMCs sport 20 1814-in. travels, twin pallet changers, and built-in tombstone-indexing capabilities. These machines also feature 8,000-rpm, 40-taper spindles with inline, direct-drive systems that attach to the spindles. Haas reports these systems provide good …