Author: MTW Editorial Team
The FLIR C5 Compact Thermal Camera with new built-in FLIR Ignite™ cloud connectivity and Wi-Fi features for professionals in the building maintenance, manufacturing, and utility industries. The FLIR C5 is designed as a pocket-portable thermal camera, providing easy sharing tools and reduced diagnostic time for commercial electrical testing, mechanical engineering, home and building inspection, energy auditing, and general contracting. The C5 is the first FLIR Cx-Series thermal camera to offer the FLIR Ignite cloud-based solution. When connected to Wi-Fi, professionals can directly upload, store, and back up images and videos to FLIR Ignite. Professionals can also manage and share the…
From general to application-specific, industrial metal coatings provide a wide range of functions for manufacturers. Market research suggests the industrial coatings market will grow into a $139 billion industry by 2024. New technologies, competition for eco-friendly coating solutions and developing markets and applications for coatings all add up to a bright time for the industry. Nevertheless, how can you choose the right industrial metal coating? There are lots of familiar and novel options available, each with a slightly different set of attributes and applications. Let this be your quick guide to the benefits of industrial metal coatings and your first…
Does hybrid manufacturing offer the best of both worlds? In the wild, zebra and ostriches may appear to be unlikely allies. Here, John Young, country manager for the APAC region at industrial equipment supplier, EU Automation, explains how sometimes a seemingly polarising combination can be very effective, particularly in the realm of additive and subtractive machining. While zebra have excellent eyesight and a poor sense of smell, ostriches have weak eyesight and a much better sense of smell. By working together, they have a greater chance at identifying threats and evading predators. In much the same way, additive and subtractive…
The power of the Liquid Tool – Blaser Swisslube, trusted partner for metalworking fluids, is close to its customers also in these difficult times with regular live webinars to help the machining world refresh their knowledge and learn new things. It began with a look behind the scenes at the headquarters in Switzerland, followed by a series of in-depth webinars. Since physical meetings are hardly possible at the moment, the innovative coolant manufacturer Blaser Swisslube has quickly changed to online company tours and trainings. “From basics to expertise, from analysis to monitoring and maintenance, our machining experts and chemists help…
CERATIZIT USA has joined forces with several companies to make ventilators. The CERATIZIT Group has extensive experience in the carbide production process, from the powder to the finished cutting tool. Not only does this allow special-purpose tools to be developed for customer-specific applications but it also means that a full range of industry-specific standard tools are held in stock and quickly available. High-precision drilling, reaming, countersinking and boring are specialties of CERATIZIT. Involved in this effort is Staub Precision Machine and the industrial distributor Abrasive Tool.Staub Precision Machine used CERATIZIT reamers to perform a finishing operation of high-precision holes to…
Coming to the aid of a medical system crushed world-wide by the COVID-19 pandemic, ANCA has joined an important consortium to rapidly manufacture invasive ventilators within Australia. This initiative directly addresses the critical supply of mechanical ventilation equipment to support COVID-19 patients requiring ventilation to survive. Banding together with other Australian manufacturing businesses, the consortium can harness various industry capabilities to make more ventilators sooner. Building on over 45 years of innovation, ANCA has taken its industry know-how to pivot to COVID-19 related manufacturing to support national efforts to produce more ventilators. ANCA’s dedicated project team will draw on the…
Like all other industries the aerospace industry is also in deep trouble due to the coronavirus pandemic. The aerospace industry first encountered a major setback when the Boeing 737 Max aircraft were grounded across the world. The industry was still struggling to come to grips with the Boeing 737 crisis when the Coronavirus crisis struck the world. As the whole world came to a stand still the aerospace industry stared at a bleak scenario. In the face of the Coronavirus pandemic, Airbus SE chief Guillaume Faury warned the employees that the aircraft manufacturer is “bleeding cash” and needs to quickly…
Quill-feed drill used Suhner drill heads for accuracy and reliability On a recent project for Mid-State Engineering in Tipton, Indiana, Suhner custom ECONOmaster® drill units were used to automatically drill holes into fiberglass panels for a truck trailer body. The range of hole sizes are half an inch. ECONOmaster® is used to reduce the center to center point of the holes drilled by a quill-feed drill. This quill-feed drill unit has selectable drill heads that can be used at once or individually. Using servo drive motors, the machine auto indexes down a table to ensure precision hole locations across a…
AMADA WELD TECH announces increased strategical partnerships with manufacturers of battery modules, used in vital life support systems, as part of the effort to meet the increased demand for ventilators and their component parts during the current global health crisis. AMADA WELD TECH is a key supplier to both the medical and battery industries and has been additionally listed with the UK government as a supporting manufacturer for the production of ventilators and medical systems. As a result, the company has increased production in recent weeks, all whilst maintaining the safety and health of employees and customers. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues…
As Covid-19 rattles economies and disrupts businesses across industries, companies are learning to deal with the crisis and trying to figure out what will be the overall impact. Amid the fears of the global pandemic, the main concern for businesses now is ensuring employee protection, while maintaining business continuity and minimum impact to customer service. We, at Machine Tools World, spoke to some companies that are leading by example in terms of tiding over the crisis and finding a silver lining during these difficult. These front-runners tell us how they are staying productive and ensuring uninterrupted customer service during these…
We have made all efforts to be a part of the fight against COVID-19. Meetings are being held through video conferencing at a frequency of twice a week. Travelling and external visits to Kemppi premises are restricted until further notice. We suggest every person to make sure that ‘you are not a cause for the spread of Coronavirus.’ To ensure that our employees stay physically and mentally fit during the lockdown period, we have organized compulsory fitness class for one hour. This is conducted by a Professional Trainer and all the employees along with their families join the program. We…
At Delta, our main concern is to ensure the well-being of our employees, customers and channel partners. So, when the lockdown was announced we first made sure that all our key touchpoints and their families were safe. That being said, we are committed to ensure business continuity and are leveraging technology between internal teams to stay connected. Further, we are also extending the same platforms, such as Skype, that we are using internally to connect with our customers and channel partners. We are still connected and collaborating internationally with our principals and business units in Taiwan and factory in China.…
Well-being of our employees is paramount for us. At the same time, we need to ensure that the business does not suffer and also we are able to support our customers in the best possible way. All our employees are working from home. We have sent out a communication to all our customers informing them about the change in the working scenario while assuring them that we will be supporting them remotely. In our business line, most of the software are accessible through cloud, which our engineers are able to use from home and continue working. Whatever technical support is…
Radnest analyses the true shape, material and thickness of all components in a batch, separating and sorting automatically, producing high utilisation, manufacturable nests from sheets, off-cuts and remnants delivering substantial savings in material and improving machine efficiency.