Subcontracted machining - and more particularly bar turning - is a difficult field in which margins are low and the environment very competitive. To succeed in the long term, a company cannot simply offer quality at attractive prices. More and more often, customers are also demanding flexibility on volumes and deadlines, as well as additional services. The French SME JCM Décolletage is fighting on this field and the success is there - attributable, among other things, to the MS 40C (…)

With a customer-oriented vision, in 2015 Soraluce moved ahead and created a 5-year plan for the development of intelligent technologies. In addition to the technologies which have already been developed and implemented, further new developments will be presented by 2020, which will also be further leading milestones in themachine tool industry. New developments are always made by Soraluce with the involvement of their customers and end users. The wishes and requirements of customers have (…)

Top guitar players and metal-cutting experts share a common passion - The search for the last μ and for the perfect sound. And that’s what they find at Schaller, a company that produces mechanical components of absolute precision for electric guitars. To achieve this precision, Schaller relies on CNC automatic lathes from Swiss manufacturer Tornos. The company Schaller GmbH is a German manufacturer of hardware for musical instruments and is headquartered in Postbauer-Heng near (…)

Whether they are multi-ton steel beams or pins barely visible to the naked eye, magnetized parts can be the grain of sand in the gear and paralyze a production process or be considered defective. For more than 30 years, Polydec in Biel has been producing precision micro-parts for the automotive and watchmaking industries as well as for electronics and medical technology. Thanks to a machine park of 50 automatic lathes, the company produces about 40 million turned parts per month. Most of (…)

To recreate as faithfully as possible the complexity of a human organ, to enable the surgeon to prepare his preoperative procedures, this is one of Scalia’s ambitions. Synthetic renal artery This ultraviolet resin polymerization technology makes it possible to manufacture organs with biomechanical properties similar to those of a human organ. Not limited by the hardness of the material, the textures and densities of the diseased organ are reconstructed from a patient’s medical imaging. (…)

Switzerland’s new trade fair Industrialis is taking place at the Bernexpo site on 11 – 14 December 2018. Held in the heart of Switzerland every two years, it will put brand-new trends and innovations centre stage while also offering an ideal platform for cultivating contacts and high-quality networking. From 2020 onwards, the trade fair will be held in November. Sasa Tanasic and Daniel Fritz, the two initiators of the show Industrialis is a modern trade fair for producers and suppliers (…)

Preciprint3D, located in the Haut-Doubs region, offers a production facility perfectly suited for unit parts, pre-series, small series as well as technical support in the design and manufacture of various components by 3D printing. Installation for movement assembly Combining this new printing technology with the requirements of industrial technology, Preciprint3D supplies fields such as watchmaking, jewellery, medical, aeronautics and special machines. The process is simple: the (…)

Multi-bladed reamers are the tool of choice when high cutting rates and short machining times are called for. In view of the limitations of conventional production methods, it has not been possible to date with steel tool bodies to direct the coolant exactly to all the functional areas of the tool. With the new MonoReam, MAPAL presents the first additively manufactured reamer. Compromises always had to be accepted in the design of the coolant channel bores. Thanks to additive (…)

To demonstrate the future of additive manufacturing (AM), Marc Saunders, Director of Global Solutions Centres at engineering technologies company Renishaw, is presenting at Formnext 2018, Messe Frankfurt, Germany. On Tuesday 13th November on the ‘TCT introducing’ stage from 11.30am, Saunders will explain how to radically improve productivity with multi-laser systems, without compromising on product quality. The talk will complement the exhibition of Renishaw’s latest AM system, the (…)

parts2clean offers users in industry a platform for information gathering and procurement that is unrivalled anywhere in the world. The facts and figures speak for themselves: Some 240 companies from 16 countries are presenting till 25 October solutions for degreasing, cleaning, deburring, demagnetizing, bath maintenance, automation, cleanliness inspection, corrosion protection, and the handling and packaging of cleaned workpieces, all on a display area of some 7,000 square meters. (…)