Hardinge acquires Ohio Tool Works

Hardinge has purchased Ohio Tool Works, enhancing the former’s machine-tool and work-holding portfolio with an attractive platform of precision honing machines, tooling and abrasives. OTW designs and builds both standard and custom honing technology for a diverse and growing base of global customers across the industrial, aerospace, defence and metalworking industries. Notably, OTW’s engineered honing solutions ensure that its customers’ own mission-critical products – such as aerospace components and high-pressure cylinders – are precisely finished for performance and reliability.

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www.hardinge.com

Core strength

In addition to Walter and Ewag exhibiting a series of their tool and insert grinding and erosion machines, as well as a tool measurement machine on the EMO stand of parent company United Grinding Group (Stand E31, Hall 3), the group also reveals that a new customer-focused initiative is being launched which will “pave the way for a new generation of machine tools that fully embrace the digital age”. While details of C.O.R.E. (Customer Oriented REvolution) will remain under wraps until noon on the opening day of the exhibition (4 October), it is said to “put the focus back on people”.

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www.walter-machines.com

SolidCAM 2021 SP2 now available

SolidCAM 2021 SP2 is now available to all SolidCAM customers on subscription. The most powerful release yet, SolidCAM 2021 introduces the new Tool Table – ToolKit (especially important for mill-turn and Swiss-type customers), new Sim5X operations (including edge breaking and edge trimming), as well as many enhancements to SolidCAM’s various CAM modules.

In the new ToolKit, it is now possible to import 3D tool data seamlessly, including tool holders, directly from tool manufacturers’ cloud-based tool databases. ToolKit makes the tool assembly process as easy as possible for the user. Based on how tools are assembled in real life, the new ToolKit offers the possibility to assemble tools, their holders and additional components, exactly how tools are assembled in the machine shop.

The SolidCAM Sim5X operation of edge breaking automatically detects all edges to be deburred and creates a collision-free toolpath. SolidCAM edge trimming can be used, especially in the composites industry, to remove excess material from parts during manufacturing. An additional function available to all Sim5X customers under subscription is Sim5X auto 3+2 roughing, which automatically roughs parts from all possible sides, without any manual intervention by the operator.

SolidCAM 2021 includes the new SolidCAM Simulator, which provides graphical simulations of all SolidCAM operations. The simulator offers multi-channel simulations and combines all the modes of previous SolidCAM simulations into one integrated and easy-to-use interface.

CIMCO Edit Professional is directly integrated in SolidCAM 2021 to provide users with one of the industry’s most advanced G-Code editors. The seamless export of SolidCAM information, including tool table data, stock, target and fixtures, makes CIMCO Edit very useful for SolidCAM customers.

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www.solidcam.com

Leader says take a ‘steady’ rest at EMO

Exclusively represented in the UK and Ireland by Leader Chuck International, Fabbrica Italiana Autocentranti Lombardia (FIAL) is an Italian ancillary equipment specialist with its core business focused on clamping equipment for lathes, both traditional and CNC. At this year’s EMO, FIAL (Stand F18, Hall 3) will launch a number of new steady rest ranges, including the Self-Centring series, the Coolant series with feed for the steady rest’s rollers, the Mini series for multi-axis lathes and turn-mill centres, and a range of high-accuracy steady rests for grinding applications.

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www.leaderchuck.com

Cobot technology takes centre stage

Mills CNC Automation, a division created by Mills CNC to provide a clear focus for the company’s automation business, will showcase its latest collaborative robot technology at the Robotics & Automation Show (CBS Arena Coventry, 2-3 November). The three Doosan cobots on stand 710 (the A0509 entry-level model, six-axis M1013, and H2017 with 1700 mm reach radius and 20 kg payload) will be performing tasks that demonstrate their versatility, user-friendliness, inherent safety and broad application potential.

Says Peter McCullough, product manager (Doosan Robotics): “Doosan cobots are designed to perform a range of tasks, from machine tending, testing, inspection, polishing, deburring and assembly, through to packaging, palletising and repetitive ‘pick and place’ operations. The three cobots we’re taking to Robotics & Automation will demonstrate the productivity and operational efficiencies that can be achieved through investing in collaborative robot technology.”

For further information
www.millscnc.co.uk