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Energy Efficient Electro-Mechanical Clamping Reduces Costs
Powered by electricity instead of hydraulics, e-QUIPMENT steadyrests, clamping heads, grippers, cylinder systems (with and without through holes) and tool locking systems from Röhm only require energy during actuation and electrically manage adjustments of clamping forces and strokes during operation.
Heidenhain Appoints New Service Operations Manager
David Fuson now oversees daily service operations for North America.
Using Laser Trackers to Align a Particle Accelerator
Laser trackers are typically used to inspect parts and calibrate and align machine tools, but check out how this high energy particle physics laboratory uses them in the precision alignment of a particle accelerator that is more than ten miles long.
Mitutoyo America Donates Metrology Tools to Students
Engineering students at Northern Illinois University receive a Digimatic caliper and a micrometer.
Mahr Inc. Employees Step Up for Hurricane Relief
They donated $6,523 to the American Red Cross for hurricane disaster relief efforts.
Ultra-Fast Coating Thickness Testing and Handheld Gloss Measurement
To measure coating thickness on either ferrous or non-ferrous metals metals, Elcometer offers three Ultra/Scan probes as options for their 456 Coating Thickness Gauge. They also offer handheld Elcometer 480 single, dual and triple angle glossmeters.
Radix Acquires +ADD
Radix now has a larger presence in the Toronto market, with key products and services for the specialized pharmaceutical, medical device and aerospace sectors.
Heidenhain Hurricane Recovery Hotline
They want to help assist affected companies restore lost functionality of their equipment.
Portable, Digital Ultrasonic Flaw Detection
The handheld ECHO FD from Danatronics is equipped with a 3.5 in sunlight readable color display, Peak Memory, two independent gates, DAC curves, AWS software, 2 GB of micro-SD card memory, encoded B-scan, grid view supervisor lock, and a floating and tracking gate option.
Heidenhain Probes Used in FANUC America Training Center
TS 460 and TT 460 triggering touch probes are being used on RoboDrills in a recently expanded CNC machining laboratory.
Does Your Metal Pass the Test? Instant Metal Identification
The precise, affordable and portable Watson II XRF analyzer from Tribogenics has a Silicon Drift Detector that allows fabricators to instantly verify metal composition and avoid using incorrect or out-of-specification alloys.
Advanced Metrology Systems for Metal Fabrication
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence offers TubeShaper software specifically for inspection using their ROMER Absolute Arm, and also HxGN SMART Quality, a remotely accessible web-based platform software that harnesses the quality data stream across multiple phases of manufacturing.
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