Opened yesterday in Basel, the two trade shows for the MEM sector and its supplier industries are hosting even more exhibitors than two years ago. With 325 exhibitors, the Prodex exhibitor floor is completely booked, surpassing the fair’s outstanding results from 2012. Swisstech also has a full house, with its 550 exhibitors occupying the entirety of the new Hall 1, including around 25 percent of international exhibitors. A successful start I discussed with many exhibitors yesterday and (…)

Stefan Eichler, the Director of Rimann, is well known on the Swiss market, particularly in microtechnology as specialist of the valuation of the machining residues by solid/liquid separation. Recently, his company has developed its activity in the treatment of air (liquid/ air separation) by selling Coral products and we could bet that Rimann will quickly be known on the Swiss market in this area too. After Prodex, it is also as a saxophonist that Stepan Eichler will be recognised. He (…)

We’ve done some maintenance on the website and I am happy to inform you on the main aspects you can benefit from while surfing with us (and you will also learn a few facts on our paper issues). Actually as you may not know it, our website displays pieces of news day after day, but it is also a complete database of all the articles published in Eurotec from issue 1/2009. Those are classified under the Article link and 2013 compilations that summarise all the articles on that topic. Those (…)

Schunk, the competence leader for clamping technology and gripping systems extends its program for high performance hydraulic expansion toolholders with the Tendo Aviation. After the introduction of the powerful Schunk Tendo-E compact universal toolholder in 2010, Schunk continues this unique story of success, by focusing on demanding precision applications, which particularly occur in the aerospace industry. Safety mechanisms such as anti pull-out locking mechanisms are partly mandatory (…)

The advantages of using high-performance cutting materials such as PcBN or PCD are clear. However, due to the high costs for these cutting materials, the users demand tool systems that make optimum use of the cutting edges without losing performance or stability of the process. Mapal successfully met this demand with an innovative indexing system indexable round inserts of PcBN for hard turning. The main innovation of the new indexing system is that the function of the defined turning of (…)

In order to better serve its customers, Tornos will soon be moving its after-sales service to a new site in Moutier, Switzerland. To find out more, we met with Mathias Damman (left), the new head of the Service department (Tornos Service), and Simon Aebi (right), the head of the spare parts and machine servicing department. Eurotec: Mr Damman, you’re the new Customer Services manager at Tornos. What are you hoping to achieve? Matthias Damman: Tornos Service already performs very well; we (…)

To achieve optimum results in machining quality, workpieces have to be clamped with the right force. That way, deformations can be prevented, for example. Here, the ideal clamping force is not only dependent on the actuating force, but also the centrifugal force behaviour of the chuck. That is where the new F-senso "chuck" clamping force measurement device from Röhm, the clamping and gripping technology specialist, comes into play. It makes a combined measurement of the clamping force and (…)

Delcam is to present a series of webinars on its Vortex high-efficiency roughing strategy, which has been shown to achieve savings of up to 90% in the time needed for area clearance. The webinars, which will run under the headline New Tools, New Rules, will cover the use of Vortex in each of Delcam’s CAM products as follows: 20th November – Vortex in PowerMILL 27th November – Vortex in FeatureCAM 9th December – Vortex in FeatureCAM 11th December – Vortex in PartMaker 18th December – (…)

Stable process conditions are a decisive basic requirement for grooving and cut-off operations. With an extensive line of grooving and cut-off systems, Seco offers convincing machining solutions for all applications, making processes considerably more efficient and safer. The Seco X4 Grooving System with its indexable inserts with four cutting edges and high-stability clamping system offers convincing arguments in use with excellent repeat accuracy, high productivity and outstanding (…)

Particularly in individual part and small series production, the clamping of the workpiece is a time-consuming and cost-intensive factor. That calls for effective strategies for increasing productivity by reducing set-up times. Palletising systems such as the Power-Grip zero-point clamping system from Röhm offer a significant boost in productivity. This modular system meets the demands for customised solutions with the best possible utilisation of the machine capacity. Whereas to date the (…)