‘Cnc Lathe’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release CNC router reduces time to market from Micromech, which we summarised at the time by saying "A manufacturer of personal care products has saved money by switching to a low-cost computerised numerical control (CNC) router that can produce point of purchase displays internally.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release SKS to distribute XYZ machines tools in Scotland from SKS Engineering: "XYZ Machine Tools has appointed SKS Engineering as its distributor in Scotland to support the full XYZ range throughout the region.".

In October 2009, we covered the news from Diversified Plastics - take a look at Diversified Plastics helps produce medical device which says: "Diversified Plastics has been chosen by Coaxia to produce a polycarbonate miniature manifold, which is part of Coaxia's Neuroflo catheter. ".

Take a look also at the news release from Machine Building Systems, MBS adds 'Positioning Set 8 40' to Item kit , as well as EMS expands manufacturing facility from EMS, and Royal launches CNC bar pullers from Royal Products.

Latest stories...

Procter relaunches Nelsa machine shop guards (May 2009)

Procter Machine Guarding is relaunching the Nelsa range of high-quality machine shop guards, backed by a commitment to high standards of customer service.

Tendoturns help make pinions for steering systems (April 2009)

At its Schwabisch Gmund site in Germany, ZF Lenksysteme is using Schunk's Tendoturn VDI 30 and 40 hydraulic-expansion holders to make precise pinions for passenger car-steering mechanisms.

Reconditioned driller/borer has high precision (March 2009)

Obled-Sacsum has reconditioned its Poreba boring and drilling machine using a Dualdrive rack-and-pinion-drive system from Redex Andantex.

Turret mills sell well (July 2008)

The Acu-Rite MillPwr CNC requires no previous CNC experience and can be used either as a full-function DRO or as a programmable CNC.

Threadform duplication adds life to worms (June 2008)

Simon Chipchase explains his company's pioneering methods for replicating threadforms for worms and worm gears.

Tools catalogue provides one-stop shop (June 2008)

Eriks UK's tools and maintenance catalogue is easy to use and offers competitive pricing.

New company specialises in precision machining (March 2008)

Continual investment in the latest milling, drilling and turning machinery enables Ramco to engineer complex and critical components and to fulfil large contracts with speed and accuracy.

Hydraulic components to aid dam maintenance (December 2007)

Richard Alan Group has secured a major order for machining precision parts for hydraulic rams to be used for a maintenance project on the Guri Dam in Venezuela.

Citizen offers adaptive guide bush for CNC lathes

Citizen has developed an adaptive guide bushing (AGB) solution, which is intended to enable the use of a cheaper bright bar instead of the normal ground or specially prepared bar material.
Six-axis robots improve CNC lathe manufacturing

CNC multi-spindle lathe manufacturer installs six-axis robots into its latest models to improve performance and flexibility, especially for complex chucked components.