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Extending Cutting Tool Life

Tooling & Workholding

Minimize tool replacement expenses, while maintaining consistent and quality output.

Trailblazing Accessories Ensure Quicker Production Cycles and Increased Output

Automation-Ready Tool Holding System, REGO-FIX USA, PGA (automatic) 9500, REGO-FIX powRgrip tool holding system, PGA 9500, vibration damping for longer tool life, 20,000 tool setting cycles

Tooling & Workholding

Machine tool accessories reduce downtime and speed up your machining operations.

When to Choose Bonded Abrasives With Ceramic Grains

Tooling & Workholding

The technology behind ceramic grains enhances their cutting efficiency and prolongs wheel life, ensuring superior results in even the most rigorous metalworking applications.

AI’s Impact on Metalworking: Empowering Frontline Workers with Intuitive Software

By simplifying software and making it more intuitive, AI will empower frontline workers to be more productive, efficient and engaged.

ANCA and Tetralytix Announce Strategic Partnership for Virtual Cutting Tool Design

ANCA, Tetralytix, Toolyzer, Steffen Kluth, Martin U. Ripple, Dr. Ing. Arne Mücke, Oliver Pape

Tooling & Workholding

Sophisticated digital interface solutions reduce development time and cost.

Advanced parting at a 90-degree angle

Sandvik Coromant, CoroCut® QD Y-axis parting tools, CoroCut® QD Y-axis tools, improved surface quality, reduced vibration, higher blade stiffness, Y-axis parting, X-axis of the machine tool, CoroCut® QD, Fredrik Selin, increased blade stiffness of up to 600 percent, turning centers, multitask machines with Y-axis

Tooling & Workholding

Sandvik Coromant announces CoroCut® QD for Y-axis parting. Optimized to enable improved surface quality, reduced vibration and higher blade stiffness.

New Subscription Service for 3D Fixture Modelling Software

FixtureBuilder 8.1, Renishaw, advanced CAD-based metrology fixturing, software, modelling software, fixturing components

Machining | Measurement & Inspection | Tooling & Workholding

Renishaw’s FixtureBuilder allows quick creation and documentation of advanced CAD-based metrology fixturing setups for repeatable and productive part inspection. Full CAD compatibility, custom libraries, and a “Build It” function that automates set ups and simplifies purchasing of components.

SigmaNEST 24 Suite Connects CAD/CAM, Shop Floor and Business Systems

Machining | Maintenance | Metal Forming & Fabricating | Tooling & Workholding

SigmaNEST, is pleased to announce version 24 of the software suite. The new release gives fabricators the tools to reach higher productivity throughout the shop, while being easy and intuitive to use. SigmaNEST 24 suite helps users in three ways: Deeper software integration, a more effective UI, and CAD/CAM enhancements that drive predictably high-quality output at the machine.

Cimatron Powers up Version 2024 with Unparalleled Tools for Advanced Toolmaking

Cimatron, CAD/CAM software, mold & die industry, toolmaking, Sandvik Coromant, 2D, 3D, 5-axis, CoroPlus® Tool Library, Antonio Parisse, sheet metal stamping dies

Machining | Metal Forming & Fabricating | Tooling & Workholding

Cimatron 2024 simplifies and automates many tasks for tool designers for higher productivity, and more options for digital connection.

New Manual Tool Changer Provides Simple Solution for Quickly Changing Tooling by Hand

ATI Industrial Automation’s MC-50 Manual Tool Changer, end-of-arm tooling, end effectors, grippers, industrial robots

Tooling & Workholding

ATI Industrial Automation’s MC-50 Manual Tool Changer is designed for applications on collaborative robots that support payloads up to 25 kg, and small industrial robots supporting payloads up to 10 kg.

FABTECH 2023 – METALFORM, Finishing, Tube & Pipe

New Incremental Forming Simulation Software, Accurate Die Design Software Inc., Reseller and Technical & Training Center for LogoPress, Accurate Die Design Software Inc., Reseller and Technical & Training Center for LogoPress, LogoPress software, AutoForm company, LogoPress ProgSim12, SOLIDWORKS, LogoPress DieDesign software, LogoPress DieDesign PREMIUM software, AutoForm solver, Cut Optimizer, Cut Optimizer, ProgSim, LogoPress ProgSim, New Guide System is an All-in-one System, Agathon Machine Tools, Agathon Machine Tools, Guide System Plus, Agathon Guide System Plus, freely positioned retaining ring, guide system bushing is equipped with precision heavy-duty rollers, New Mechanical 110-Metric Ton 300 SPM Stamping Press, AIDA-America, metal stamping press manufacturer, NSX mechanical stamping press, 120-to-300 strokes per minute (SPM), Quill mounted flywheel, Variable frequency main motor, 65 mm stroke length, Bed size of 50” L-R, Slide and bolster JIC T-slots on 6” centers, Eight programmable limit switch (PLS) circuits, Link OmniLink 5000, Wintriss SmartPAC controls, peak/reverse tonnage monitor,. 16 channel die protection, Abrasive Tools for Precision Finishing and Deburring, Brush Research Manufacturing, FLEX-HONE® Tool, cross hole deburring, finish and deburr simultaneously, 4 mm-to-36”, CBN abrasive, Nampower End Brushes, Nampower Premium Abrasive Nylon, Coil Feed Line with Integrated Shear, COE Press Equipment, 30” coil processing line, shear for cutting blanks, Series 530 Servo Roll Feed, 3.50”-x-30” Power Straightener, COE’s SyncMaster Touch integrated controller, Feed Line with New Interactive Graphical Display Control, Dallas Industries, press feeding equipment, AIDA servo press, SpaceSaver styles, coil handling equipment, servo feeds, heavy-duty straighteners, Future-oriented and Sustainable Solutions for High Cleanliness, Ecoclean, SBS Ecoclean Group, solvent-based cleaning with hydrocarbons, vapor degreasing, ultrasonic and injection flood washing, coolant and lubricant emulsions, polishing pastes, particles, abrasive materials, salts or fingerprints, Innovative Hydraulic Press Solutions Include Automation Custom Applications, Greenerd Press & Machine Co., hydraulic press, unique hydraulic press applications, automated two-press, two-robot production cell, built and turnkey-installed, large aluminum pressure vessels, FANUC robot, automated manufacturing equipment, Tier 1 Industrial Authorized Robot System Integrator, Mechanical and Servo Driven In-die Tapping Solutions, Hutchison Tool, servo driven In-die tapping, mechanical driven In-die tapping, high strip lift applications, In-die clinch nut system, In-die clinch nut system can feed a wide variety of clinch nut sizes and shapes, Tools for Quick Setups Save You Time and Money , Lenzkes Clamping Tools, high-quality workholding, machine tables/platen, t-slot and/or tapped holes, MQ150, MQ160, clamping rail, arch shaped clamping arm provides multiple options regarding clamping position, View Process Monitoring Solution with Automated Ram Height Adjustment, Marposs Corp., process monitoring solution, Marposs Brankamp monitoring system, detect process disturbances, Marposs Monitoring Solutions GmbH, Handheld XRF and LIBS Analyzers Trusted by Metal Fabricators Worldwide, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Niton™ handheld XRF, Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), QA/QC applications, metal coating thickness, Thermo Scientific Niton XL5 Plus Handheld XRF (HHXRF) Analyzer, Niton XL2 Plus HHXRF Analyzer, Niton Apollo LIBS analyzer, Niton XL5 Plus Handheld XRF Analyzer, Niton XL2 Plus HHXRF Analyzer, Powder-coated Aluminum Railing Performs at Commercial Grade Level, ULTRALOX INTERLOCKING® TECHNOLOGY, premium powder-coated aluminum railing, premium powder-coated framing systems, engineered railing system, meets commercial/residential building codes throughout North America, Powder-coated Aluminum Railing Performs at Commercial Grade Level, ULTRALOX INTERLOCKING® TECHNOLOGY, premium powder-coated aluminum railing, premium powder-coated framing systems, engineered railing system, meets commercial/residential building codes throughout North America, New, Powerful Features Added to Press Automation Controller, Wintriss Controls Group, SmartPAC PRO Press Automation Controller, ShopFloorConnect® OEE, Data Collection Software, SmartPAC PRO Press Automation Controller, control gagging operations, new asymmetrical toggle outputs for controlling complex configurable tooling, additional timed outputs for even greater versatility, Toggle Cam Output, Advanced DiProPAC, DiProPAC

Hall D: METALFORM, Finishing, Tube & Pipe of FABTECH 2023, North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event.

Cimatron Powers up Version 2024 with Unparalleled Tools for Advanced Toolmaking

Machining | Tooling & Workholding

Cimatron 2024 simplifies and automates many tasks for tool designers for higher productivity, and more options for digital connection.

Benefits of Using a 5- or 6-Inch Grinding Wheel or Flap Disc

Industry News

SigmaNEST, SigmaNEST Connected Shop, accurate quoting, efficient workflow, better visibility into your operation, profitable growth, production times, forecast delivery dates, realtime visibility, chase due dates, breakdowns, rework, absences, accounting make billing & delivery easy, integrated software, How to make more money by Connecting Your Shop, Webinar

Webinar: How to make more money by Connecting Your Shop

Are you wasting time & money with a fragmented process that you’ve outgrown? If so, join the SigmaNEST webinar on December 4 @ 11am (EST).

KERN Microtechnik, Tornos machine, SolidCAM, Kitamura Machinery, REGO-FIX, CME, Center for Machining Excellence, tooling,

REGO-FIX Celebrates Innovation with Center for Machining Excellence Grand Opening

The state-of-the-art 12,000-square-foot REGO-FIX manufacturing educational and advancement facility houses a wide range of cutting-edge technology and serves as a hub for industry innovation that is accessible to manufacturers and industry thought leaders worldwide.