Machine Industries

  FPT INDUSTRIAL POWERS THE BEST UTILITY AND THE BEST OF SPECIALIZED “TRACTOR OF THE YEAR” 2023 Double celebration for FPT Industrial at EIMA International trade fair in Bologna (Italy). The New Holland T4.120F powered by F36 engine and the McCormick X6.414 P6-Drive powered by NEF45 engine have been awarded as “Tractor of the Year®” respectively in the Best of Specialized and Best Utility categories.  Launched in 1998 by Italian magazine ‘Trattori’, the prestigious annual TOTY awards recognize the latest innovations throughout the international tractor sector. This year the jury comprised 26 journalists in representation of the most influential agricultural magazines,...

Sustainable Metal Cutting: For People, Planet And Profit Matilda Gynnerstedt, Head of Product Management for Turning at Sandvik Coromant, explores the tools and technologies that drive productivity, reduce waste and improve sustainability in metal cutting. In metalwork, poor selection of tools or machining strategies can determine success or failure. Wastage, poor productivity and scrap components are symptoms of inadequate, unsustainable machining processes. Thus, having the right tools and processes offer substantial sustainability advantages in metal cutting. Unfortunately, many machine shops remain unaware.  Metals are the backbone of today’s industrialised world. From steel in buildings, aluminum in cars, titanium in modern aircraft...

Integrated CAD/CAM Promotes Process Efficiency, Traceability High-requirement markets are not only searching for good parts — they're searching for proof of good parts. CAD/CAM software can help.   NX CAM, which is part of Siemens’ Xcelerator software and service portfolio, includes application-specific modules that simplify programming for difficult part features, such as these blisk blades. Photos courtesy of Rhinestahl Advanced Manufacturing Group Eight machining steps deep into a high-value part is a terrible place to discover an early mistake. Rhinestahl Advanced Manufacturing Group (AMG), a Mason, Ohio-based high-end manufacturer of parts for aerospace, defense, rail and more, no longer worries...

Mastercam Mill Streamlines Multiaxis Machining Process The Mastercam Mill software package includes multiaxis features, 3D enhancements and 2D high-speed toolpaths. Photo Credit: Mastercam Mastercam Mill offers expanded machining flexibility and increased speed and automation. The software package includes multiaxis features, 3D enhancements and 2D high-speed toolpaths, as well as other new enhancements intended to improve shop floor productivity. In Mastercam Mill, morph, parallel, along curve and project curve are no longer individual toolpaths. Instead, users can now find the same functionality inside the multiaxis unified toolpath, which is said to enable for more flexibility in cut pattern when programming multiaxis,...

Polygonica 3.2 Fills Critical 3D Printing Need by Accounting for Distortion MachineWorks mesh management SDK gets a serious update. MachineWorks Ltd., makers of Polygonica, announced a new version, and with it, a much-needed method to handle the distortion that invariably results when printing a part in metal. Because of uneven cooling, a 3D-printed metal part will take on a shape that’s different enough from the design to be rejected. This leads to manually measuring or scanning the distorted part, and then estimating from the measurements how to change the design shape so that when the distortion occurs, the part will...