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VDW increases production forecast for 2018
According to the VDW, incoming orders in the German machine tool industry rose by 22% in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same period of the previous year. Domestic orders increased by 39%. Foreign orders grew by 15 percent.
read more...Swabian machine tool manufacturer Hermle increased its order intake across the Group by 18.9 percent to EUR 433.2 million in 2017 as a whole.
read more...The three trade fairs Smart Automation, C4I and Intertool will take place in Vienna in mid-May. Companies and visitors alike benefit from the synergies between the three events. The trade fairs are attended by prominent figures and demonstrate the importance of the industry for Austria.
read more...Robot-guided palletizing systems
Robot-guided palletizing systems are one way of making machine tools more flexible. They minimize downtimes in the production of individual parts and enable unmanned production in three-shift operation. The interaction of the gripping system and clamping technology components is important here.
read more...Jakob Antriebstechnik improves the inner workings of mechanical power amplifiers and introduces the SC power clamping screw. The special feature is a special wedge clamping system that acts as a force amplifier.
read more...Zero point clamping technology
Zero-point clamping modules have been ensuring high efficiency in machine tools for years. The Neher Group, a leading manufacturer of polycrystalline diamond tools and automation solutions, has now extended the range of applications in its new MX01 modular series to rotary transfer machine construction and uses Schunk's modules, which are both stable and precise, to clamp workpiece carrier pallets in leak testing systems.
read more...The Umill 1500 5-axis milling/turning center is the latest machine in the Umill series from Emco Mecof, Italian manufacturer of vertical portal milling machines and horizontal traveling column machines since 1947.
read more...In Chodov in the Czech Republic, technology provider SKF operates a plant for the production of lubrication systems, which was opened in 2014. There, solutions from Spandau Pumpen are used to supply a modular island filter system with cooling lubricant.
read more...Wittenstein is presenting new highlights for the Galaxie drive system: five different sizes and a new design. These include the compact Galaxie D version, the ultra-flat Galaxie DF and the Galaxie GH gearbox variant.
read more...Koichi Matsuda has succeeded Toshiyuki Funabashi as head of the Japanese subsidiary Mapal KK in Saitama.
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