The UK National Measurement Office (NMO) will no longer provide Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) services as of 30 April 2022. Former NMO customers will now need to turn to other CABs for any necessary certification services. The announcement follows news that NMi, the Netherlands Measurement Institute, has become the first European notified body operating in the measuring instrument sector to set up in the UK and secure appointment as a UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) approved body. NMi can now serve as a single point of contact for businesses looking to acquire both UKCA and CE product markings.

For further information
www.nmi.nl

CG Tech will exhibit Vericut 9.2 on Stand C15. Vericut 9.2 increases productivity and sustainability with improvements to collision checking and overall performance, as well as enhanced support for ‘intelligent’ cutting tools with performance information and detailed tool reporting. Also added is a 3DLive interface to import GDML files, enabling users to quickly and easily create realistic digital machines and introduce other moving components (rotary tables, articulating heads, fixtures with moving clamps, etc.) for more realistic simulation.

For further information
www.cgtech.co.uk

Open Mind Technologies will be giving a UK exhibition premiere to the latest version of its hyperMILL CADCAM software. Version 2022.1 incorporates more features, optimised strategies and a host of major enhancements for more powerful and simplified machine and controller-independent NC programming. On Stand B210, experts will demonstrate optimisations that include enhancements to the five-axis strategies in Virtual Machining. These improvements provide users with better results in terms of surface quality, new options for 2D functionality as well as efficient innovations in electrode manufacturing.

For further information www.openmind-tech.com

A Kitamura MedCenter5AX 5-axis vertical machining centre will take centre stage on the stand (G260) of Dugard. With X, Y and Z-axis travel of 254 x 330 x 330 mm over a 170 mm diameter table, the machine incorporates a 30 to 30,000 rpm spindle with an HSK-E40 spindle taper that connects to a 40-tool ATC which can change tools in just 1.5 seconds. Rapid traverse is 60 m/min, while table rotation is 200 rpm in the A and C axes.

With linear and rotary scales, 67 million pulse encoder technology and 16 mm pitch ballscrews, Dugard says that the Kitamura MedCenter5AX is an extremely precise and productive proposition. Furthermore, with a positional accuracy of ±2 µm across the full stroke and repeatability of ±1 µm, the company is keen to point out that the machine is also one of the most accurate on the market.

For further information www.dugard.com

Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland, will showcase its industrial automation and collaborative robot systems on Stand C160. Pride of place will go to a Mills CNC SYNERGi automated manufacturing cell, which comprises a new 10” chuck multi-tasking Lynx 2600SY lathe (with sub-spindle and Y axis) integrated with a Premier SYNERGi system.

The system includes an industrial robot, a large capacity and flexible part loading/unloading station, a part inspection conveyor, end-of-arm tooling, laser floor scanner technology, and a 17” touchscreen HMI powered by SYNERGi software. At Southern Manufacturing, the SYNERGi cell will demonstrate the significant productivity and operational efficiency gains that automation brings, and the way it can help manufacturers embrace lights-out operations.

For further information www.millscnc.co.uk