On-machine user interface boosts productivity of mould base manufacturing

The market for mould base assemblies used in plastic injection moulding is changing. Plastic part makers are producing increasing varieties of short-run products in all kinds of different sizes, shapes and finish – each requiring a custom-made mould base. As a leader in precision mould base manufacture, GM Enterprise needed to ramp up its production throughput to meet rapidly rising customer demand.

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QC20-W ballbar system boosts confidence in pre-owned machine tool sales

Any company buying a used machine tool needs to be certain of its ability to deliver the accuracy demanded by its manufacturing process. For many companies, pre-purchase condition-checking by a certified machine inspector and thorough static accuracy meas

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Machine tool probing increases FMS productivity by 60%

One of Trevisan’s longest-standing clients, a multinational provider of valves for the oil and gas sector, invited Trevisan to provide a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) that could produce valves with high precision and productivity, with minimal manua

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QC10 ballbar a key quality and productivity tool in Rockwell Automation's Power Lean manufacturing

QC10 ballbar used for both diagnosis and predictive maintenance to keep machine tools running and producing to specification.  Rockwell Automation Power Systems specialises in providing technologies and services for optimising power transmission performan

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Machine tool probing increases productivity for Australian machine shop

When Australia-based machine shop, Hammond Engineering, found that manually setting workpiece positions was time consuming and difficult to repeat, it looked to the potential of on-machine probing. Since using Renishaw’s OMP40-2 optical transmission probe

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Renishaw and Hartford combine to deliver intelligent, ‘smart factory’ solutions

In the face of global skills shortages and rapidly emerging Industry 4.0 trends, Taiwanese CNC machine manufacturer Hartford undertook to develop an innovative, easier-to-use human machine interface (HMI) for its CNC machines. At the same time the company

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