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Build Your Own Turning Solution with Toolmex Heavy Duty Lathes

By admin | June 19, 2008

It takes more than one punch to fight tumors. Often, tumors have more than one way of surviving, and attacking the tumor alone is not enough. Now, in a new study, University of Missouri researchers have developed a new non-toxic treatment that effectively reduces breast cancer cells, by combining a small molecular drug that targets tumor cells with an antibody that causes selective shutdown of tumor blood vessels.

In 50 percent of breast cancer cases, a mutated protein, known as p53, is present. Previous research has indicated that when p53 is functionally abnormal, tumor cells are prolific and develop quickly. PRIMA-1, a small molecular drug, targets and returns normal function to the mutated p53, but PRIMA-1 alone is not enough to stop tumor growth. Proliferating blood vessels supply oxygen and other nutrients that the tumor needs to grow. However, a specific antibody, 2aG4, has the ability to destroy these blood vessels and prevent future growth. According to the MU research team, no one has previously tried to attack tumor cells by targeting mutated p53 and the tumor-associated blood vessels with this combination of PRIMA-1 and 2aG4.

“Tumors are entities that want to live,” said Salman Hyder, professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center. “They adapt under conditions that would cause anything else to die. In order to effectively treat tumors, treatments must attack the breast tumor cells and the blood vessels that supply nutrients to the tumor. Treatment strategies in our study that targeted both areas resulted in improved and more potent responses.”

In the pre-clinical trials, mice bearing tumors of human origin were given the drug combination to combat tumor growth. After four weeks of treatment, the mice that were given the combination showed a dramatic decrease in the development of tumors and had better results than the mice that were given only one of the compounds. In addition, the treatment combination proved to be non-toxic as the mice maintained their body weight and displayed few side effects.

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“Mutated p53 in tumor cells plays a key role in promoting tumor cell survival and tumor cell resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs. The mutated protein is found in 50 percent of breast cancer cases,” Hyder said. “The results of this study are very promising and show the possibility of broad anti-cancer potential.”

The study, “Targeting Mutant p53 Protein and Tumor Vasculture: an Effective Combination Therapy for Advanced Breast Tumors,” was presented at the 98th Annual American Association of Cancer Research Meeting. It was co-authored by Hyder ’s colleagues at MU: Yayun Liang, research assistant professor in the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center; Cynthia Besch-Williford, associate professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine; Indira Benakanakere, post doctoral fellow; and by Philip Thorpe from University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas.

Source: Kelsey Jackson
University of Missouri-Columbia Toolmex Machinery, specializing in ruggedly built long-bed Manual Plus CNC lathes, will demonstrate its newest MN/CNC lathes at IMTS 2008 in Chicago, September 8-12. Throughout the show, Toolmex visitors will be able to inspect several top-quality long bed MN/CNC lathes under power and discuss a unique program now offered by Toolmex.

“Build Your Own Turning Solution” is the cornerstone behind the new Toolmex philosophy, which gives customers the benefit of tailoring each Toolmex lathe to their specific application requirements. Numerous features beyond the standard options are configurable, allowing customers to maximize productivity and results for optimum compatibility between machine and application.

At the show, Toolmex associates will be on hand to educate visitors on a choice of performance levels that will best serve their individual production needs from the leading (German / Japan quality) TUR-MN series lathes to their new Asian (Taiwan) standard performance line. Show attendees will also be able to take part in live demonstrations of the newest generation Manual Plus CNC controls offered by the world’s top builders-Fanuc and Siemens-and discover the best solution for their company.

At Booth A8535 in the Metalcutting Pavilion, show visitors can discover how Toolmex builds powerful solutions for companies requiring additional customizations. With available machine sizes from toolroom class (18″ swing) up to huge roll turning applications (over 98″ dia), long beds 60″ to 720″ bc, higher spindle speeds up to 2500 rpm, large 3.5″ to 17.6″ spindle bores and models designed to handle parts up to 50 tons bc, Toolmex can fashion the best combination of features to suit the particular requirements of almost any shop.

In addition, at the show, visitors can see how the exceptional TRI-V bedway design on Toolmex TUR lathes maximizes accuracy, rigidity and repeatability for difficult turning and boring applications, while extending the lathe’s life and protecting it against instability and wear. All Toolmex TUR-MN/CNC 22″-25″-28″-32″-37″-43″ swing lathes now feature this unique bedway design.

TUR lathes (CNC, MN and Manuals) are stocked for fast delivery, always include the Toolmex comprehensive one-year warranty and are backed by experienced factory service engineers. With over 5,000 Toolmex lathe installations in the USA, local references and demonstrations will be supplied on request. Toolmex continues to be the leading specialist in heavy-duty lathes.

Come to IMTS Booth A-8535 and learn how to build your own solution with Toolmex heavy duty lathes!

For more information, visit www.ToolmexMachinery.com or call (800) 323-3480.

About Toolmex Machinery Exceptional quality and enduring value have made Toolmex Machinery (a Toolmex Corporation Group) successful since 1975. As renowned specialists in European-built medium and heavy-duty Manual Plus CNC long bed lathes, Toolmex has over 10,000 installations nationwide. Toolmex lathes are designed for heavy, yet high precision work and offer high HP and large spindle bores. We offer a full line of 22″ - 118″ swing lathes (most with our exceptional TRI-V bedway design), Fanuc or Siemens CNC packages, custom enhancements, factory direct support and a vast assortment of options. Toolmex Machinery and our authorized distributors strive to offer one of the best after-sale support programs in the industry including engineers/service technicians, one-year warranty and a computerized multi-million dollar spare parts & options center. For more information, please call (800) 323-3480 or visit our website at www.ToolmexMachinery.com

Press Contact: Siobhan Cogswell, Marketing Coordinator siobhan.cogswell@toolmex.com

Sales Contact: Tom Kob, Group General Manager thomas.kob@toolmex.com

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Second CNC tool measuring machine added

By admin | June 11, 2008

A second CNC tool measuring machine will help unplug an inspection bottleneck at a tool maker created by increased customer demand for documented inspection reports.

Specialist tooling manufacturer and supplier, Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC), had had installed the UK’s first Walter Helicheck Plus CNC tool measuring machine Supplied by Koerber Schleifring UK of Honiley near Kenilworth, UK, the Helicheck Plus complements ITC’s existing Walter Toolcheck tool measuring machine

Koerber Schleifring told manufacturingtalk that ITC was currently the only UK company operating two Walter tool measuring machines.

The machineswill help ‘unplug’ an inspection ‘bottleneck’ at the company created by increased customer demand for documented inspection reports.

Technical director at ITC, Peter Graves, said that the Helicheck Plus will prove invaluable in allowing the Tamworth-based company to streamline floor-to-floor times of, for example, form tools produced and delivered with appropriate documentation for manufacturing certification and traceability, for aerospace customers such as Rolls-Royce.

Capable of measuring tools within the 0.1mm to 200mm diameter range, the Walter Helicheck Plus is equipped with four fixed cameras for non-contact, fully automatic measurement routines in accordance with VDI/VDE 2617.

The machine achieves a measuring length deviation of E1 = (1.4 + L/300mm) micron, where L equals measuring length.

The machine has a substantial granite block with excellent vibration damping.

The Helicheck Plus features front, back and top light camera magnification of up to 400x for micro tools, and back light up to 50x for standard larger tools.

The machine has a Diffusor ’soft light’ illumination that avoids excessive reflection of the face/feature being measured, to aid inspection clarity.

ITC operates eight Walter Helitronic 5-axis CNC tool grinders and other tool production/grinding equipment and designs, manufactures and regrinds high-precision drills and reamers among a wide range of HSS and carbide tooling.

Customers include the motor sport (Formula One) and die and mouldmaking sectors in the UK and overseas, as well as the aerospace sector.

It is also UK stockist of Hanita (Israel) and Metal Removal (USA) products.

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CNC machine services from M H & E V Smith

By admin | June 11, 2008

M H & E V Smith  specialises in CNC machining of precision parts. M H & E V Smith, established in 1965 is involved in CNC manufacturing of precision-machined components. The services offered by M H & E V Smith are reliable and safe.

The clients of M H & E V Smith include from mining, food processing, railway, defence, tele communications and agricultural industries. High tolerance of grinders, horizontal borer and automatic bar lathes, milling machines, welding is maintained by M H & E V Smith through CNC turning centres.

All services right from installing to dispatching is carried out by M H & E V Smith. The CNC machines and tools from M H & E V Smith are made from all types of metal according to the choice of clients including stainless steel, brass, nylon, bronze, tool alloy, ferrous, copper, aluminium and heat-treated steel. The process of production includes sourcing of materials, specific checking, production drawings and inspection of the materials used, individualised work plan, packaging and dispatch, quality checking.

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New Modular Honing Machine Series Scaleable From Basic To “The Works” As Automated, Multi-Spindle System With Robotic Part Handling, Gaging/SPC And Tooling Flexibility

By admin | June 11, 2008

Sunnen’s new SV-1000 vertical CNC honing machine series is based on an innovative modular design, engineered to scale up from a single-spindle machine to a fully automated multi-spindle unit for ultra-precise bore sizing and finishing. The new machine will be demonstrated at IMTS in various configurations. Designed for part diameters of 3-65 mm (0.120-2.56″), SV-1000 series machines can size bores to accuracies of 0.25 µm (0.00001″). They are ideal for diesel fuel injectors, gears, small engine cylinders/connecting rods, hydraulic/pneumatic components, and medical devices in medium to high volumes.

The basic single-spindle SV-1000 module is designed from the ground up for future automation with removable side enclosure panels to facilitate flow-through part processing. It is available with a fixed tooling plate or servo rotary table with 12-position rotary air union for fixture control. An industrial PC control ensures reliability and an easy support path with software-based updates and commercially available replacement parts. The machine’s cast-polymer base provides excellent vibration damping and structural rigidity.

Fully automated versions of the SV-1000 can be specified with the servo rotary table or linear part transfer, integrated part handling systems, and up to four spindles. For unmanned cellular processing, the SV-1000 can be equipped with integrated post-process air gaging to provide closed-loop control of bore size and geometry, along with downloadable SPC data and feedback control. Post-process air gaging with one to four servo columns can provide size, taper, and straightness feedback control. Matched with Sunnen’s diamond-plated CGT Krossgrinding tools or MMT TurboHone multi-stone mandrels, the air-gage-equipped machine can automatically control hole size to accuracies of 0.25µm (0.00001″), eliminating the need for a skilled operator to tweak the process. A match-honing package can also be added.

The new machine features two patent pending innovations – a servo-controlled stroking drive that responds smoothly to motion profiles generated by the control, and a load-sensing tool feed system that minimizes processing time by sensing where and how much to hone the bore.

The new stroking drive provides the highest level of flexibility and consistency in spindle reciprocation to allow a new level of process optimization. Unique in the industry, it enables the SV-1000 to do both conventional honing and single-pass honing with any tool in Sunnen’s line, using available adapters, to give the machine excellent small-shop versatility and return on investment.

The vertical design of the SV-1000 conserves shop floor space, requiring just 2400 x 2300 x 2700 mm WxDxH (95 x 91 x 107 in.). The high-torque, belt-driven spindle is rated at 7.5 kW (10 hp) to cover a wide range of sizing and finishing work at speeds of 100-4000 rpm.

For custom processing cells, Sunnen can provide post-process inspection and sorting of parts to the submicron level, along with special tooling, robotic integration, part orientation, gaging, and other options integrated into purpose-designed system based on individual customer requirements.

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New Solutions for Job Shops, Aerospace and CNC Training

By admin | June 11, 2008

Siemens Energy and Automation, Inc. (www.siemens.com) offers new products and services under the theme “Productivity in Motion.”

For the job shop, new versions of Siemens’ ShopMill and ShopTurn software packages were developed to allow users to achieve higher productivity and simplicity, and greater speed. The software features step-bystep, on-screen programming, to enable job shops to respond to customer demands by reducing programming, tooling and production times.

The new SINUMERIK 802D controller line is an operator panel-based control system that combines the numerical control (NC), the programmable logic controller (PLC) and the human machine interface (HMI) in a single unit. It has the capability of fiveaxis machining (two of which may be spindles) and is designed for the low- and medium-range milling and turning machine markets.

For the aerospace market, the new SINUMERIK 840D controller line features the SINAMICS S120 drives that can be used for up to 31 axes. It is a distributed, scalable, open and inter-connecting system offering a wide range of specialized functions for milling, drilling, turning, grinding and handling technologies.

SinuTrain, the Siemens package of CNC training software on CD-ROM, is designed to run on Windows XP operating systems. It provides machine tool control-identical simulation training.

Until Sept. 30, 2008, Siemens is offering the complete SinuTrain package of Siemens SINUMERIK CNC versions 802D/810D/840D/840Di, including the training keyboard, for $1,200. Additionally, other

SinuTrain program components are being offered at discounted pricing until Sept. 30, 2008. SinuTrain provides mill and lathe operators practical hands-on experience, prior to using the CNCs on their actual machines. With SinuTrain, actual NC programs are developed and simulated, using a direct connection to the company’s CAD systems to further speed the program generation protocol. In this way, the company said operators learn the control language commands and also visualize part programs on a PC screen that is identical to the actual machine screen. As a further benefit, Siemens said programs generated through SinuTrain on the PC software can then be used on the machines.

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Shop finds CAM package boosts productivity and profit

By admin | June 11, 2008

Even manual machining operations gain from CAM program

PEMCO
Gary Buie

Gary Buie, president and general manager of PEMCO

One of the most compelling justifications for computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) is that it helps end dependence on skilled programmer-machinists to maintain production.

These skills are scarce to nonexistent in many rural areas, as drillrig rebuilder PEMCO of New Mexico Inc. (pemconm.com) found out. Confronting a business boom, it could not get the people to keep up with demand.

PEMCO found a solution for this bottleneck in Edgecam from Planit Solutions.

The Edgecam software quickly began generating dramatic results in both productivity and output. It also is helping to drive a business transformation at PEMCO to new levels of competitiveness with better customer service, shorter delivery times and lower pricing.

“The technical help we have gotten from Edgecam and ECAD (the Edgecam reseller) has been tremendous.” Garry Buie, president of PEMCO, said.

Edgecam (www.edgecam.com) is based in Southfield, Mich. Planit is headquartered in Bath, England. ECAD is based in Midland, Texas; it also resells Autodesk Inventor, which PEMCO also uses.

The problem PEMCO had was hiring and retaining skilled machinists.

CNC machinerySkilled machinists who are looking for work are almost nonexistent where PEMCO is located — Hobbs, N.M., in the southeastern corner of the state.

“The shortage of programmers held us hostage,” Garry Wilson, CADD specialist and PEMCO’s primary CNC programmer, said. That shortage was aggravated by a new multibillion-dollar uranium enrichment plant that located just a few miles from Hobbs.

Programming was a big production bottleneck on the heavily used SwedTurn that is 27 years old. Both a replacement and a CNC retrofit had been under consideration.

“That is a very solid, very tight, very well-built machine with almost no wear, but the programming was completely obsolete,” Buie said.

A new SwedTurn would have cost about $320,000 and a retrofit about $47,000.

“The retrofit would have taken six months, and having it out of production that long would have cost us between $100,000 and $220,000 in lost business. That is our only machine for larger turned parts,” Buie said.

What impressed Buie about ECAD was the knowledge and willingness the company showed to work with the shop. Steve Duke, account manager for ECAD, knew about the SwedTurn. He ran one as a machinist many years ago, Buie noted.

PEMCO rebuilds cranes, derricks and of truck-mounted drill and work-over rigs and their key power components such as scoping rams, hydraulic cylinders, heads, valve bodies and sprockets.

“Our niche in the business for 40 years has been to produce obsolete parts,” Buie said.

“None of our customers ever brought us a drawing We are onehundred- percent reverse engineering,” Billy Ganaway, general shop foreman, said. That means PEMCO had to manually measure every part and draw it by hand.

Prior to buying and implementing Edgecam, PEMCO’s production methods were equally “manual.”

Parts were machined directly from hand drawings on conventional, non-CNC machine tools or they were run on CNC machines that were programmed manually.

Machinists keyed raw-stock and finish dimensions directly into the machine tools’ controllers as G-codes. That was costing PEMCO many hours of production per week per machine.

Manual or online programming hurt PEMCO’s productivity and output in two other ways:

Machinists had been holding speeds and feeds to one-fourth or even one-tenth of what cutting-tool suppliers recommend. This excess of caution had kept PEMCO cycle times uncomfortably long while shortening cutting-tool life.

Complicated parts were avoided because of programming difficulties. CNC machinery is most effective on complex parts, so PEMCO was missing a sizable payback opportunity.

Amid a boom in oil and gas drilling with crude-oil prices at an all-time high, rigs are in high demand. Even old units are being pressed into service, driving up demand for PEMCO’s services.

The company has five CNC machine tools and employs 25 people in its machine shop and 60 total. The acronym stands for Permian Engineering & Manufacturing Corp.

The second local energy boom — uranium enrichment — made PEMCO unable to keep pace.

Under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy, URENCO, A European consortium that makes enriched uranium for nuclear power generation, is building a multibilliondollar National Enrichment Facility (NEF) in Eunice, N.M.

In an area where skilled workers have always been scarce, URENCO has hired over a thousand people in the past two years, and expanding local businesses and URENCO suppliers hired hundreds more.

The heart of PEMCO’s difficulty was manual programming.

“A-T-M programming for simple parts only took 20 to 30 minutes apiece,” Wilson said.

“But complex parts required anywhere from four hours to two days and sometimes even three days. Some parts were nightmares to program at the machine,” he added. The PEMCO solution was straightforward: Computerize the programming with three Edgecam packages — Production Mill and Production Lathe plus Solid Machinist for Inventor. Solid Machinist is designed to goof-proof CAD-to-CAM integration by opening Edgecam inside Autodesk Inventor.

“We started using Inventor in mid-2006 to increase our productivity by drawing our existing assemblies and parts. Offline CAM was the natural progression and Edgecam fit our needs better than any other package,” Wilson said.

“Even the most limited offline use of Edgecam led to big gains,” he added.

Ganaway said that the initial gains were tremendous, even before machinists were trained, before the postprocessors were finished, and before the machines were fully reconnected.

They attributed part of this to Edgecam’s ease of use and ease of learning.

Amid myriad distractions of combining PEMCO’s two machine shops, Billy Rodgers, machine shop foreman, said he found time to learn Edgecam.

“It was simpler than I thought it would be and I had almost never used a computer before,” he reported. “Now I do 90 percent of my CNC jobs on Edgecam. Only the very simplest jobs are still programmed online,” Rodgers said.

PEMCO’s production gains from Edgecam can be summed in two sets of numbers:

25 percent to 75 percent reductions in shop costs, production times and delivery times.

Three-fold to four-fold gains in throughput and productivity.

“Deliveries of just about everything we make have speeded up at least 25 percent,” Wilson said.

“For jobs that repeat, we are as much as 75 percent faster,” he added. Here are additional Edgecam specifics from the machine shop:

CNC tooling costs have fallen sharply despite higher output.

Buie credited that to PEMCO’s success with offline CAM.

Success with Edgecam encouraged the other CNC machinists to use the optimum speeds and feeds recommended by cutting-tool suppliers.

The most dramatic example is in turned shafts. A large one that took four hours to program online and machine on the SwedTurn took 15 minutes with Edgecam. That’s a 16-fold gain in productivity.

Cost savings translate into big price reductions.

A typical SwedTurn job is a large valve body with 24-inch O.D. and about 16 inches long.

“Under the old methods, we would have had to sell a part like that for around $5,000. I have a quote out now for 10 of them at $2,700 apiece,” Buie said.

The CNC scrap rate has dropped from as high as 5 percent to almost zero for jobs run with Edgecam, saving thousands of dollars a year.

Production gets under way sooner as programs are written and proofed faster offline.

PEMCO’s remaining manual machining benefited, too.

Seeing the dramatic gains made by Edgecam, machinists on the manual machine tools realized they could greatly increase their own speeds and feeds.

“They began to machine parts in one-half to one-fourth of their previous times. We have seen a speed-up in production from at least 25 percent to as much as 75 percent,” Wilson said.

“After we began using Edgecam to estimate the time required to machine new parts and after we learned to trust its feeds and speeds. We were able to reduce most of our initial cost estimates by half,” Wilson added.

Yet, even with lower prices, he said the shop’s profits are up because it quotes better and gets more jobs with better margins.

“For example, we now know we can actually profitably machine one part,” Wilson said.

“We are making parts we never would have machined before. We are bringing in new work from competitors and from companies we were never able to sell to before,” Buie said.

Meanwhile PEMCO is getting its ISO-9001 certification.

PEMCO also is chewing into its order backlog even as new business rolls in.

“We were eight to 12 months behind where we should have been,” Buie said. More important for a company that invested several hundred thousand dollars in machine tools in recent years, machine shop sales are headed up —t o as much as $5 million in 2008 from $3.5 million in 2007.

PEMCO’s embrace of Edgecam underscores a larger trend in machining replacement parts.

Most of these equipment rebuilders are switching to CAD and CAM although most of their business remains reverse engineering. The advantages of converting “manual” methods to digital are too big to ignore. The same is true in moving from online A-T-M machine tool programming to offline CAM.

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CNC turning and milling services from ETH Enterprises

By admin | June 10, 2008

ETH Enterprises  offers CNC turning and milling machines. CAD-CAM software products are offered by ETH Enterprises. Turbine and fabricated model components from ETH Enterprises are manufactured with help of CNC machines. All types of solid models are offered by ETH Enterprises for plastics, press forming tools.

The CNC machines from ETH Enterprises come with different working capacities. CNC Milling machines are available with two, three and four axis travels. The rate of spindle speed is 60-6000 RPM. The CNC turning machines from ETH Enterprises bar capacities with diameter of 75 millimetres.

ETH Enterprises offers CNC turning machines. The CNC turning machines come with two Daewoo CNC lathes with Imeca Auto Barload units. The maximum swing diameter is 460 millimetres and maximum shaft length between centres 350 millimetres. The spindle speed of the CNC turning machines come with 20 to 5000 rotations per minute. In house drafting, programming and modelling services are offered by ETH Enterprises. These services offered by ETH Enterprises comply with the industrial standards.

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Cadmach Machinery

By admin | June 10, 2008

Cadmach is a globally trusted name serving pharmaceutical industry in India and world wide, since its inception way back in 1967. Some of its finer points include intensive study, research and man-hours invested to execute state-of-the-art-manufacturing practices to earmark current standards and regulations.

Today, it has developed appropriate capability to compete in the national and international market. This includes a strong and effective domestic presence, in-built manufacturing capabilities, constant endeavour to introduce new products, wide spread network, backward integration for improving in-house capabilities, product packaging, and above all, strength to satisfy global customer. The company, with its strength and profound experience of more than three decades, is ready to plunge into new avenues to cater the need of pharmaceutical industry. The company’s key focus is on R&D in order to strengthen its existing product range, as well as new products and designs by keeping an eye on customers’s requirements. Substantial investments in the field of cutting edge state-of-the-art technologies, constant research and development, and above all, excellent after sales services and customer relationships, have helped the company emerge as the leading player not only in the domestic market, but also in over 54 countries with dug manufacturing activities.

Cadmach has been able to not only corner 80 percent of the domestic market, but also about 10-15 percent of the global markets. Considering this growth, Cadmach has invested heavily to meet the demands, especially in high-tech CNC machines and other machines in the production lines.

R&D has been the major strength and Cadmach is coming up with a few new hi-tech tabletting machines to meet the demands of manufacturers. These investments will help Cadmach to improve precision levels, reduce delivery time and maintain its quality and standards.

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Trade and Outsource offers machines, cranes and hotel products

By admin | June 6, 2008

Trade and Outsource  specialise in trading and outsourcing range of products like cranes, crawler, metal scraps to various countries around the globe. Trade and Outsource also outsource call centre work, home furnishing, information technology, sheet metal components and products for hotels. Second hand machineries like gear machines, CNC machines, milling machines, sheet metal machines, grinding machines, boring machines and testing machines are traded by Trade and Outsource.

Trade and Outsource offers gift items like ceramic cutlery, beads, sarongs, stoles, wooden trays, photo frames, wine bottle gift bags, tole painted vases, photo albums and embroidered boxes. The hotels are outsourced with products like towels, laundry caps, bath gowns, neck scarf, chef caps, loofahs, chef jacket, aprons, skull cap and bathroom slippers.

CNC machines include CNC Lathe Machines, CNC milling machines, turning machine conventional and CSC machining centre. Bewel gear generator, centering and facing machines, keyway and supplying machines, gear hobbing machines, hob sharpener machines, tooth rounding machines and gear shaper machine are few gear machines traded by Trade and Outsource.

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YMT offers Goodway GLS CNC turning

By admin | June 4, 2008

Additional functionality is available with the new Goodway GLS series of CNC turning centres from UK agent YMT Technologies

The GLS-150MY and GLS-200MY use industry-leading technology and high-quality components to deliver performance advantages to all industry sectors Built to withstand many years of rigorous production turning, the heavily ribbed thermally balanced Meehanite cast bed provides a single, solid platform and the low centre of gravity on the slant bed design provides a rigid foundation for the headstock and Y-axis equipped tooling turret

Finite Element Methods have been used for optimal positioning of the reinforcing ribs, which are cast directly into the one-piece cast iron bed structure.

This increases mechanical rigidity by more than 30%, allowing the GLS Series to perform heavy-duty turning, milling, drilling and tapping while maintaining exceptional accuracy over extended operating periods.

Extra widely spaced linear guideways provide the rigidity needed for interrupted cutting applications, which also significantly increases tool life.

Maximum turning diameter is 280mm and both machines are supplied with a 15kW motor providing 60-6000rpm on the smaller GLS-150MY and 42-4200rpm on the larger machine with full C-axis control.

Each model has rapid axis traverse rates of 24m/min and axis travels are 220mm in X and 630mm in Z.

A 70mm Y-axis (+/- 35mm over the centreline) on the 12- or 10-station tooling turret allows milling, drilling and tapping operations to be carried out on even the most complex components.

With a 6-inch chuck on the GLS-150MY offering a bar capacity of 42mm and an 8-inch chuck on the GLS-200MY offering a 52mm bar capacity, these turning centres provide exceptional flexibility.

And, with the live tooling turret able to carry milling, drilling and tapping tools, complex prismatic machining can also be carried out.

An integrated 1.2kW motor on the turret can drive up to six of the 12 tooling stations at cutting speeds of 10-4400rpm.

Increasing the tooling available for turning and milling operation for maximum productivity, YMT is able to provide the Algra range of high-precision driven tooling, for which it is the sole UK agent.

Using twin tooling units with front and backend working, the 12-station turret can potentially be expanded to hold 24 tools.

This productivity is further enhanced by the tooling turret itself with has an integrated servo motor achieving a station-to-station indexing time of just 0.2 seconds.

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