CONTENTS
10 Lead feature Generation generative
The London-based edition of Autodesk University provided a push to the
company’s cloud-hosted design-to-production collaborative software,
Fusion 360, which was also extended; saw cloud- and desktop-hosted
production software offerings move closer together; and showed
generative design capability brought to bear more broadly in a
subtractive machining environment
15 Exhibition preview EMO 2019
Europe’s largest metalcutting-focused manufacturing technology show,
EMO, takes place this September in Hanover. Across 18 halls, some
2,100+ exhibitors will be showing their wares to an anticipated
audience of around 130,000 visitors. But the event’s nature is
changing; it’s becoming less about hardware and more about connecting
it and making it work more effectively
23 Subcontracting Online capacity brokerage
An Estonia-headquartered business is bringing customers for, and
suppliers of, sheet metalwork together via an online quotation platform
27 Tooling Ingrained innovation
USA-headquartered solid carbide round shank cutting tool manufacturer MA
Ford is celebrating 100 years, with its UK subsidiary having notched up just
over 20. Machinery visited the UK operation’s new location in Derby and
heard about the company’s strengths, new products and latest initiatives
32 Industry 4.0 & automation Wired for production
Tucked away in the corner of Mazak’s Worcester technical centre, the
company was giving a low-key glimpse of the near future during its
recent June Open House
34 Supply side Offi cially open
Last month, Citizen Machinery UK’s West Midlands-based ‘Turning
Centre of Excellence’ saw its of cial opening, with the ribbon-cutting
undertaken by Citizen Machinery president Keiichi Nakajima; he also
undertook the traditional planting of a cherry tree in the new facility’s
grounds
37 Industry 4.0 & automation Shopfl oor Industry 4.0
Carillon Industrial Services (CIS) opened up its High Wycombe
Productivity Proving Centre in June for a special event that had shop oor
technology for Industry 4.0 at its heart
42 Turning Roundly praised
Conduit ttings manufacture cycle times slashed with Miyano, but
more to come; start-up subcontractor gets off to ying start with
easy-to-program XYZ Machine Tools technology; plus industry & product
news in brief
45
Cleaning & degreasing Clean lines
Turbex cleans up at rm with medical sector ambitions; Layton
satis es medical component maker’s requirements; Pegler opts for
MecWash again, following initial purchase 25 years ago; plus
parts2clean exhibition news
Volume 177 Number 4287 August 2019
Regular sections
7 Comment
News round-up
8 ETG adds EDM & 3D
printing technology
8 Hurco works with Kirklees
College on training
8 Park Sheet Metal acquired
by Rubicon Partners
8 Sandvik buys stake in
Italian metal AM parts maker
8 UK test-bed to help rms
develop digital solutions
8 Jones & Shipman Hardinge
moves to new location
9 Renishaw AM helps uid
power expert
9 Gewefa scores big win on
collet chucks
9 Brandauer invests to boost
capacity & exibility
9 FANUC, Seco Tools &
Mills CNC schedule events to
underline latest technology &
thinking
9 In-Comm Training sets
course for further expansion
New products
9 hyperMILL new version
9 LVD press brake
9 Arno drill range
9 Holroyd HMI choices
9 Javelin MRP news
9 Parting/grooving tools
9 Schunk automation
9 Horn tooling news
9 Walter parting tools
9 Schunk gripper
48 Classifi ed section
50 This month
25 years ago...
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25this month
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Quality standard’s cost under fi re; Ferranti collapse fallout seen in CMM market;
CNC machines prompt toolholder innovation; British machine tool industry recovers,
for now; quality is more than a correct dimension
august 1994
The BS5750 quality standard is the subject of this month’s
comment article. Predecessor to today’s ISO9000 series
(which was actually released in the UK in July 1994), it is
We presage that in our introduction, although also put the most
hopeful face we can on it: “Measured by the number of people
involved, machine tool manufacture in Britain appears to be in
irreversible decline. But appearances can be deceptive.”
being lambasted as costly and bureaucratic; but BS5750 is a
prerequisite for survival, we offer. Examples of companies that have
bene ted are given.
Being a light news month, the only big story concerns International
Metrology Systems (IMS), home of Ferranti CMMs, following their
namesake’s bankruptcy in December 1993 – Ferranti was the
originator of the CMM in the 1950s. IMS is now also able to provide
service and software for the equipment, following its purchase of
ServiceTec. The split between CMM manufacture and service was
Trade association the Machine Tool Technologies Association
(MTTA) says that much of the recovery in the industry since the great
UK recession of the early ‘80s has been reversed. But unlike the
early ‘80s, other countries’ industries have suffered an equally
punishing recession this time, we say. Yet, while we do export 51%
of our machine tool production, the technology that we import is of a
higher technology from these likewise battered countries’ rms.
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one of the quirks of the sale of parts of Ferranti’s empire. Ferranti
collapsed because a company it bought in 1987, International Signal
and Control, made its money in illegal arms sales, started at the
behest of various US clandestine organisations. Subsequent
nancial and legal dif culties forced the bankruptcy.
There are positive words from the MTTA and its members,
however, on new initiatives and opportunity. The UK’s largest publicly
quoted machine tool distributor and maker, The 600 Group, is citing
recovery in sales: its latest revenue gure for 1993/94 is £96.7m
(£194m today); for 2018/19 the group is reporting $65m (£53m).
In 1994, the company had just launched its 2-axis CNC lathe, the
Tornado, and it had also opened The 600 Centre, a Loughboroughbased
On a technical front, a round shank toolholder where it is
impossible for the cutter to be pulled out has been patented by
Woodland Chucks’ managing director, Ken Head. Up for license, the
feat is achieved by having a very slightly tapered tool shank, the
large end being at the opposite end to the cutting edges and which
is gripped in a collet chuck. The development has been prompted by
the increasing speeds and cutting forces exerted in modern CNC
machines, says its developer.
Our cover article this month takes a
look at the British machine tool
making industry as it gears up for
growth, now that recession has
the latter including Mitsui Seiki and FANUC. That activity is long
gone, but the company is still here, unlike many others we mention
in the 1994 report – somewhere around 25-30. And today, smaller
as it is, the 600 Group is seeing strong machine tool sales growth,
as we reported in our June issue, page 23 (https://is.gd/yuhuxu).
passed. We give over 10 ½ pages
to this, but coverage of the
industry will become thinner and
thinner throughout this decade.
showroom of both manufactured and factored machine tools,
Returning to the theme of quality and another article in this August
1994 issue looks at the wider picture. Quality doesn’t just mean
making parts to drawing, it encompasses many other aspects of
business, too. The positive impact of the newly arrived Japanese car
industry in the UK is highlighted. One pressed parts maker has
received help from Toyota to up its process reliability and related
part quality and delivery credentials. Quality is now owned by those
that set and run the processes, not policed by rst-off inspection
checks and patrolling inspectors.
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Key Events
Woodstock ‘94,
Saugerties,
New York; the
25th anniversary
of the orginal
1969 event
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First protests against
Fidel Castro’s government,
set up in 1959
The Provisional
Irish Republican
Army announces a
“complete cessation
of military
operations”
South Africa draws
Test series 1-1 in its
rst tour to England
since the country’s
anti-apartheid
sporting ban
The Russian army leaves
Latvia, ending the
Estonia and of Eastern Europe’s
last traces Soviet occupation
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