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New Leaders For PTC Group Holdings Board

PTC Group Holdings Corporation have announced several leadership changes to their Board. Effective from June 12, 2015, Christopher W Parker is chairman, Curtis G Solsvig III is chief executive officer (CEO) and director, and Cary Hart is president and director. Previous chairman, president and CEO Peter Whiting has resigned from his position effective from the same date to pursue new opportunities.

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Qualifying For The Aerospace Industry

APMEN spoke with Charles Chong, president of the Association of Aerospace Industries (Singapore) or AAIS and Soh Chee Siong, CEO of JEP Precision Engineering to chart the path of a contract manufacturer aspiring to enter the aerospace market.

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Intelligent Use Of Non-productive Time

The focus is shifting increasingly onto robot-based automation – and for good reason. By Andreas Schuhbauer, marketing segment manager for machine tools at Kuka Roboter GmbH.

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Machining Exotic Materials: How To Get It Right

APMEN spoke with two machining experts to see how they are handling the machining and fabrication of exotic materials. By Joson Ng

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Human-Robot Collaboration To Drive The Automotive Industry (Part I)

Teamwork between human and machine is key in enabling manufacturers to ride on the growth of the automotive industry. By Shermine Gotfredsen, general manager, APAC, Universal Robots

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Why Laser Tracker Technology Is More Efficient For Aluminium Extrusion Press Alignment

Using a laser tracker, a metrology engineer can quickly capture high tolerance dimensional measurements – including conventional level and square measurements. By Hubert Meagher, director of metrology services, OASIS Alignment Services LLC.

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Achieving The Digital Edge

Within the next decade or so, the machine floor will see connectivity reach new heights with immense amounts of data being driven through networks and on demand – at the touch of a finger. Article contributed by Schaeffler Technologies AG.

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Upping The Precision

Producing components for modern gas turbines is a challenge that machining experts are familiar with; they are often faced with the task of machining difficult-to-cut materials such as titanium alloys and superalloys and creating shapes such as onion-shaped profiles and flutes. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that the turnaround time for machining the components must be as short as possible, while the process must be incredibly precise. Lim Gan Shu, marketing manager, Walter AG shows how precision tools, developed machining concepts and optimised tools set new standards in the field.

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Turbine Blade Machining

High temperature alloys make machining turbine blades more complicated and expensive, giving rise to the need for more creativity in terms of tool selection and milling strategies. Contributed by Andreas Elenz & Thomas Schaarschmidt , Walter Tübingen.

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Keeping Pace With Production

When perfect volume cuts are required in wet or dry cutting situations, the solution lies with a high-performance automatic circular saw.

Thanks to references from the steel market, circular saw manufacturer Behringer Eisele from Weilheim/Teck succeeded in submitting the winning bid to supply and install an HCS 160 Multifluid high-performance circular machine to an international market leader in quenched and tempered steel.

The company’s most important customers are steel trading corporations worldwide, in particular in Europe. “This international tender for a sawing system was decided in our favour because Behringer Eisele scored highest when it came to the key factors quality, technology and price”, explains Manfred Grüninger, head of sales at Behringer Eisele, Weilheim/Teck, Germany.

In the magazine of the high-performance circular saw HCS 160 Multifluid, a single bar with a diameter range of 20 – 160 mm is separated from the bundle and cut. The bar with lengths of up to 13 m is cut to customer’s order to lengths between four and 12 m.

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Their customer was able to cut 10 tons of raw materials in bundles of 20 with a starting length of 12.5 m and a diameter of 80 mm made of 42CroMo4. It took them less than 40 minutes to create two bundles with a vending length of 6 m.

The process included both, a front and a rear cut, as well as the dividing cut in the middle. The HCS 160 Multifluid was able to keep up pace with production delivering precision, supplying perfect volume cuts. Whether for wet or dry cutting, the carbide circular saw was able to offer both variability and adjustability.

In addition, the HCS 160 Multifluid can be adapted to suite the processing task and requirements of the sawing cut: From workpiece cooling using emulsion, through to the use of different micro-spraying devices to active saw blade cooling during dry cutting.

It is also designed to handle high-alloyed heat-resistant steel qualities over 1200 N/mm2. While the standard speed range of 20 to 250 rpm allows it to cover most conceivable sawing assignments even using standard equipment.

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The machine provides additional support during both wet and dry cutting: A chip conveyor with integrated coolant pump, for instance, ensures rapid disposal of produced chips. During wet cutting, a trough integrated into the machine frame captures the cooling lubricant emulsion.

“To improve vibration damping, our engineers opted to add greater rigidity to the machine concept”, explains Manfred Grüninger. The result is an increase in service life and an improved cutting surface for precise, rapid cuts in both wet and dry conditions.

As a fully automatic high-performance circular saw, the HCS 160 MF is designed to ensure production-oriented and flexible integration into the downstream production process.

“This is why we maintain a lively dialogue with the customer to ensure that the system is performing at all times”, says Grüninger. He regularly calls in to enquire how things are going on site. After all, process reliability is crucial when it comes to volume sawing.

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Looking Beyond The Tech

Exploring new approaches which do help tool shops minimise pains which technology alone cannot help alleviate.

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Cleaner Diesel Emissions Driven By Non-Contact Optical Metrology

Interferometric non-contact surface profilers are introduced into the manufacturing processes of diesel engine parts, giving manufacturers a fast, accurate, and repeatable method of metrology. By Michael Schmidt, market development manager, Zygo Corporation

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A Better Way: Finding Efficiencies (Part 1)

Inefficiencies need to be ironed out before introducing the concept of the Digital Twin and what this means for the way goods are created and produced. By Siemens PLM Software, Aaron Frankel, senior marketing director manufacturing engineering software and Jan Larsson, senior marketing director EMEA

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Networked Production

In a world where everything is getting smarter, networked production can increase one’s production efficiency. By Bystronic

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Bystronic: Maximising Potential

Instead of the alphorn, the Swiss sheet metalworking machine tool producer has tooted the optimising horn at Euroblech. By Joson Ng

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The High Five In Cutting

As time goes on, the advances of water jetting continues to happen especially in the case of accuracy and more industries are seeing its viability in the market for faster, more accurate cuts. Syed Shah explains.

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