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Spices manufacturer Gandhi Spices uses the Finex Ultima with the Russell Vibrasonic Deblinding System to achieve high throughput rates for sieving dry mango powders For over 60 years, Gandhi Spices has been manufacturing, exporting and wholesaling spices in India, and is known for producing blends such as Meat Masala, Chole Masala, Kitchen King Masala, Kasuri Methi and Garam Masala. When faced with continuously increasing demand, Gandhi Spices sought to review the production process of one of their key ingredients to ensure increased output could be achieved without compromising product quality. At their factory located in Rajkot, Gujarat, a rotary sifter…
ORDERFOX.com is proud to announce a new ground-breaking collaboration with industry leader Autodesk; making visualization and procurement even easier. ORDERFOX.com is continuously focused on providing members a more efficient way to conduct daily business. With that always top-of-mind, ORDERFOX.com community members now have an even greater benefit – the integration of the Autodesk Forge platform viewing functionality. The Viewer now provides community members the ability to view and process potential business opportunities without additional software installed. In addition, as a benefit for existing and new users of Autodesk Fusion 360, Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk AutoCAD software, they will be able…
Enables More Efficient & Cost-Effective Reality Capture into Autodesk® Design Tools FARO® (NASDAQ:FARO), the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement and imaging solutions for factory metrology and construction BIM, announces the availability of the FARO® As-Built software platform (https://www.faro.com/As-Built/in) that enables efficient and cost-effective transfer of 3D reality capture into Autodesk® design tools to create ready to use CAD and Building Information Modeling (BIM) deliverables. As-Built is specifically designed to minimize the effort and time required to create as-built documentation, which is the main task across AEC professionals in the building, facility and infrastructure design phases. This comprehensive and…
For many years we have focused on supporting the railway segment, offering customers a wide range of cutting tools to improve both production and maintenance. Our customers include state owned companies to private rail operators. Each one values reliability, security and productivity highly. Therefore, delivering excellent service levels, with innovative tool designs, is paramount to becoming an established, trusted, long-term partner to the railway industry. Dormer Pramet’s cutting tools can support a variety of applications, such as dynamic rail milling and the machining of switches, wheel sets, rail profiles, base plates and coupling mechanisms.
Metalworking provides an invaluable role in the maintenance, repair and manufacture of numerous railway applications, including track, wheels and wagon parts.With a year on year increase of 2.6 per cent, the railway industry is enjoying sustainable growth and expected to be worth more than 180billion EUROS by 2020. An increasing demand for passenger and freight rail services is seeing a rapid growth in infrastructure investment around the world.Global tooling manufacturer Dormer Pramet has, for many years, supported the railway segment with a wide range of cutting tools for both production and maintenance.Tomáš Hantek is International Application Manager for Railway at…
Honeywell Aerospace, part of global commercial and consumer engineering conglomerate Honeywell, produces a large number of the impellers and blisks used in commercial aeroplanes. The impellers, which are essentially radial and axial compressors, rely on a workpiece datum being maintained throughout the machining process to ensure that they are suitable for use. If the workpiece datum point is not maintained, the impeller will be considered incompatible and will require rework, repair or scrapping entirely. To help maintain accuracy in the machining process, Honeywell turned to global engineering company Renishaw to supply a RMP600 high-accuracy machine tool probing system and Productivity+™…
The edition to have exclusive international pavilions for China and Taiwan with 10 other countries participating Over 400 companies to participate from 12 countries AMTEX 2018, the biennial machine tools and engineering exhibition in India will be held between July 6th- 9that Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. This edition will introduce 3 Co-located shows-Intertool, Q MET and Automation & Robotics. In addition to participating countries like UK, Japan, Netherlands, Italy, Korea, Germany, Turkey & Singapore, it will showcase two international pavilions for China and Taiwan showcasing their products and technological acumen. According to Gardner Business Media survey 2017, India is ranked…
Dr Christopher Hegarty will been appointed The Group CEO from 1stJuly 2018, succeeding Grant Anderson FCAM. Aftereight years in the role at ANCA, Grant Anderson will retire at the end of June. Chris joined the ANCA group from Switzerland in July 2017 as the Engineering Manager of CNC Machines and has more recently been appointed to General Manager of that division. Pat Boland, Joint ANCA Co-Founder said: “Over the next few months The ANCA Leadership Team will be working together to ensure a seamless handover and ANCA will remain focused on our strategic goals and continue to delight our customers.”…
It’s that time of year again – time to think about entering Mastercam’s Wildest Parts competition. This year, Mastercam is offering two different competitions open to any current student, team of students, or instructor programming with Mastercam to participate in. Students worldwide can enter their “wildest” part made in school this year to Mastercam’s Wildest Parts Competition and get a chance to win $1000 and other prizes. The Wildest Parts Competition is an annual contest, sponsored by CNC Software, Inc. — developers of Mastercam® —where students can submit any part they cut during the school year. Last year, the winning…
The benefits of induction hardened linear guides in heavy duty application To better manage heavy loads and to better resist both wear and deformation, thus ensuring a greater number of cycles and an higher performance.These are just some of the benefits that an adequate hardening process can offer to a linear guide in industrial and heavy duty applications. Rollon Group, global provider of solutions for linear motion, has gained significant knowledge in raceways induction hardening. This particular heat treating process allows to achieve considerable results in terms of quality, durability and reliability of linear guides. Efficiency of the Linear Guide…
In our increasingly globalized society, technology disruption is taking place at a tremendous pace. Technology advancements are constantly being challenged to enhance process, improve product quality and reduce manufacturing costs. It’s time for us to venture more into understanding how we can leverage the intelligence of humans and delegate the complex but monotonous tasks to the robots. With the result of a collaborative environment between humans and robots, we can reach new heights in terms of production efficiency while focusing on the “thinking work” rather than the “physical work”. The technological advancements in the robotics’ space is going to prove…
Separate working areas with no direct interaction between man and machine: these are the principles that have applied to robot applications for more than 50 years. Up to now, people have thought that humans and robots sharing a workspace or a living area was something from the realm of science fiction. However, the new generation of robots, safe sensors and control systems, along with the new ISO/TS 15066 standard, offer practicable ways towards safe collaboration.Current developments in the field of robot applications are characterised by the desire to allow man and machine to work as closely as possible with one…
The principle of triangulation – the geometric measurement using three-point relationships – has been known for many centuries. In the 18th century, this land survey method established itself in Europe. However, the procedure can also be applied on a significantly smaller scale. Using laser line triangulation, geometries can be measured very precisely on different surfaces. Sensors from Micro-Epsilon are based on this principle and can be used in many applications.In order to operate a triangulation sensor using laser light, a laser beam is focused onto a target. A sensor array with high spatial resolution, which is tilted at a fixed…
Simple software integration of robots in production machinery and automation systems Automation with industrial robots is increasingly proving to be a key technology and thus an answer to current challenges. This can only be done successfully when the robots and the environment to be automated – machines, handling equipment, etc. This is where the software functions of KUKA.PLC mxAutomation come in, which, in combination with modern industrial realtime communication, allow efficient and sufficiently granular remote operation of the robot. Robots are not an end in themselves, rather they fulfill a wide variety of tasks that contribute to an overall automation…
Replacing power boards and rewiring the facility achieved greater machine uptime and reduced operational costs for a successful precision tooling specialist.CNC machines rely on certain fundamentals to achieve peak performance for maximum productivity. This not only includes the machine but importantly the infrastructure of the facility – specifically ancillary services such as power, air and coolant.Andrew Ritchie, ANCA Product Manager said: “We partner with our customers to help them install their machines correctly, yet they also need to understand the basics to get the most out of their CNC machines.” Tru-Edge Grinding found first-hand what can be achieved by setting…