CONTENTS
10 Lead feature Not lost in space
Indoor location tracking has provided a key data point in Dyer
Engineering’s pursuit of Industry 4.0 and the company’s aim of driving
business improvement. Andrew Allcock has the story
16 Supply side Holistic solution provider
DMG Mori’s Open House in Pfronten, Bavaria, Germany, is a major
annual event for the company, where important product, service,
manufacturing and company announcements are made. Andrew Allcock
has all the news
21 Automated assembly Brake caliper output boost
AP Racing is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of high-performance
auto parts, most signi cantly disc brake calipers. It has recently
installed a new advanced semi-automated assembly line. Andrew
Allcock called by to discover more
27 Forming & pressing Laser blanking cuts a fi ne profi le
The use of lasers in blanking lines is growing in popularity and Schuler
is a leading proponent of the technology. Andrew Allcock has this update
on the path that the technology has taken
31 Micro-machining Demonstration of capability
Micro-machining in the UK “is a bit of a forgotten art”, suggests
University of Shef eld Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre’s
(AMRC) engineer Emma Parkin. The AMRC has undertaken a
demonstration to highlight its capabilities and aims to spread the word
35 Turning Home & away
Sliding-head turning technology is boosting output and competitiveness
at a UK pump-making OEM and in Russia at a precision component
maker, Citizen and Tornos technology respectively are providing the
service. Plus, industry & product news in brief
41 Quality & metrology Demanding quality
The latest metrology solutions remain in demand, including measuring
arms, CMMs, form measuring systems, length measuring machines,
optical imaging devices and laser trackers, as Steed Webzell discovers
47 Subcontracting Delivering the goods
Nacom invests in XYZ machines; Delavale turns to MACH Machine
Tools; Qualiturn selects Mills CNC. Steed Webzell has the details
51 Composites in manufacturing Benefi ts stack up
The bene ts of composite materials are stacking up across a host of
sectors, including automotive, rail, aerospace and nuclear, as Steed
Webzell learns
55 Cutting oils & coolants
Industry & product news in brief
At-machine coolant recycling from Freddy; Castrol’s smart coolant
control; support with HSE compliance offered by Total Lubricants; water-
miscible cutting & grinding uid from Fuchs Lubricants; Filtermist oil
mist collectors clean up in Canada
Volume 178 Number 4295 April 2020
Regular sections
7 Comment
News round-up
8 Mazak’s machine tool
museum opens
8 Comau/Exechon effort for
machining centre development
8 Renishaw in ocean turbine
parts by AM production move
8 MACH 2020 rescheduled to
25-28 January 2021
8 £52m press line unveiled
by Nissan
8 ADS invests £1m in Trumpf
laser cutting tech
8 Protolabs says it can slash
injection moulding costs
8 New UK representative for
Leadwell brand machine tools
9 Renishaw/Simufact
software collaboration
9 Universal Robots has plugand
play robot kits
9 New Hope Technology bike
leans on Ceratizit know-how
9 Appointments: Ward CNC;
Liberty Group; Erodex
New products
9 Mapal steel drilling line
9 Shaft inspection
9 Rocol RTD uids update
9 Coolant reconditioning
9 UK 5-axis Mazak machine
9 Solid carbide drill
9 Gear skiving
9 Roughness & contours
9 Coromant CoroDrill
9 Grooving & parting-off
56 Classifi ed section
59 This month
25 years ago...
10
16
21
Andrew Allcock
35
41
47
55
59
Multi-media links young minds with old tech; Women In Science & Engineering
anniversary; Milan EMO technology trends; better business for Cincinnati Milacron &
Platarg; Dugard gets Niigata; grinding tech news; new route to engineering
april 1995
We celebrate the use of the new medium of computerbased
multi-media at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum.
It claims the world’s largest collection of large steam
engines, the world’s largest working waterworks engine and the
world’s largest collection of Cornish beam engines. Interesting as
this old technology is to some adult visitors, we say that it is the
more familiar multi-media element that engages children, who
have shorter attention spans and may not be able to digest a
more traditional, fact-laden tour guide delivery. We congratulate
the museum, a charity, so short of money, and call for help in
expanding its multi-media efforts. Machinery also highlights the
10th anniversary of the Women into Science and Engineering
hardware are increasing in number; and the European OSACA
open CNC project demonstrator is making its appearance at this
Italian EMO.
(WISE) campaign. As part of this celebration, there’s a
competition being run that asks young girls, 14-18, to write an
essay on why the UK needs more women engineers and how to
attract more girls into science and technology. WISE continues its
work in this area today, of course.
Our second issue gives over many pages, including the
comment page, to the forthcoming EMO show in Milan. The
inevitable mention of Leonardo Da Vinci is there, with the
magazine suggesting that even he would marvel at the technology
on show. Themes include: high speed machining, of both hard
and soft material via both vertical- and horizontal-spindle
models, with accompanying fast feed rates, such as
circular interpolation at 20 m/min – supported by the
application of the new area of linear motor technology;
hexapod-style machining centres offering 5-axis
machining; turning centres with three turrets to
reduce cycle times; faster processing CNCs that
reduce non-cutting times; the inverted spindle
VTL (self-loading, pick-up spindle) is becoming
even more prevalent; more open CNC
▼
standard PC
▼ systems that draw on ▼ In news, Birmingham-based Cincinnati Milacron is celebrating
improving business, predicting production of 1,500, mostly
vertical, machining centres – it was 500 two years’ previously. We
celebrate press maker Platarg Engineering’s success across the
years since establishment in the 1950s. Both these companies
no longer operate. Dugard, which is still in business today, has
snapped up the Niigata machining centre agency, returning to an
area it previously served via the Kearney & Trecker Milwaukee
machines. That stopped when K&T merged with Warner &
Swasey, however.
In other news, coolant use in grinding is the subject of a
seminar put on by the Institute of Grinding Technology, with high
pressure application shown to deliver improved surface nishes
by removing debris from grinding wheels and so also supporting
elevated material removal rate. Staying with grinding, a machine
to produce the internal and external edges of ceramic computer
disks has been designed and made by Cran eld Precision
Engineering (now part of French engineering giant Fives). It
delivers zero-defect manufacture. Eight machines have so far
been sold, mostly to the US. The Engineering Council (Engineering
UK today) is proposing a new system for registration, initial
formation and continuing professional development.
Feature articles this month take in: bar feed selection, both
long and short styles; maintaining consistent angles when
forming on press brakes; machine attachments that enhance
functionality; a cutting tooling project in the automotive sector
that pays off big; ozone-friendly degreasing developments as 1, 1,
1-trichloroethane comes under legislative pressure; and a
computerised machine tool maintenance package that is aiding
planning to keeps machines running.
apr 95▼
Key Events
Pirate radio
DJ and comic
presenter
Kenny Everett
dies, 50
Daewoo begins selling
cars in the UK
25years ago
▼ PhONEday: UKwide
dialing code
changes
Internet
becomes
solely private;
US government
funding ceases
Titanium Machining to Perfection
MonsterMill TCR – ensuring service life
and process reliability
40-1 outsider
Royal Athlete, trained
by Jenny Pitman,
wins The
Grand National
For more information:
cutting.tools/en/monstermill-tcr
Adv-MonsterMill-TCR-178x65mm.indd 1 23.01.2020 09:35:56
All Action/EMPICS Entertainment
black_kira /stock.adobe.com
Mike Swope /stock.adobe.com
S_E /stock.adobe.com
millenius /stock.adobe.com
Christos Georghiou /stock.adobe.com
Oklahoma City
bombing, 168
people die, Timothy
McVeigh & Terry
Nichols responsible
059_MACH_APR20P.indd 59 25/03/2020 18:05
www.machinery.co.uk | MachineryMagazine | @MachineryTweets | April 2020 5
/stock.adobe.com
/stock.adobe.com
/stock.adobe.com
/stock.adobe.com
/stock.adobe.com
/www.machinery.co.uk