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10 Lead feature Extending reach & scope
With key HVM Catapult partners such as the AMRC and MTC expanding
their footprint, Steed Webzell digs a little deeper to unearth the strategy
14 MACH 2020 preview On the starting blocks
Exhibitors are beginning to reveal their wares, so we kick off our MACH
previews in earnest this issue with eight pages of news
28 Supply side Measuring progress
OGP UK put on an Open House at its Derby headquarters in December
last year, giving a rst-time showing to four new pieces of measurement
technology. Andrew Allcock was there
31 Exhibition preview Make Measurement Matter
Part of Engineering Solutions Live, a collection of four collocated events,
Make Measurement Mattter is for those that use, apply, specify or
select measurement technology or services in any environment
33 Supply side A new standard
Early details of the all-new Voumard 1000 are available, ahead of its
GrindTec launch. Andrew Allcock has the pre-launch information
34 Machining centres Firms go for better cuts
Mitre Industries brings machining in house, backed by XYZ Machine
Tools’ technology; BSC Filters gets a capacity boost with an additional
Quaser from Engineering Technology Group
36 Additive manufacturing Complementary processes
Nigel Flowers, UK managing director of injection mould machine supplier
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, considers the rivalries and tensions between
plastic parts produced by moulding and those via additive
manufacturing. He explains how both have their place
38 Subcontracting Just the job (shop)
Milling, turning, EDM, pro ling and metrology investments are all on the
agenda in Machinery’s latest subcontracting sector round-up. Steed
Webzell has more infomation
40 Cleaning & degreasing In deep water, happily so
Two manufacturers, an OEM and a volume parts manufacturer, reveal
why they opted for aqueous parts washers. Steed Webzell has more
43 Waterjet cutting Mouthwatering potential
Job shop adds 5-axis Techni waterjet; high school opts for Omax;
WJS proves ideal for Inconel cylinders; WardJet supports bridge project;
plus more. Steed Webzell has more
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METAV preview Fortieth anniversary event
METAV opened its doors for the rst time in March 1980, but it and the
technology on show have changed, and continue to do so
Regular sections
7 Comment
News round-up
8 Igus’ £4m investment in
novel plastics recycling
8 Marcus Burton awarded
MBE in New Year honours list
8 Sandvik Coromant wins
Ford accolade
8 Construction starts on UK
powder metal facility
8 Disruptive automated CAM
gets boost with new project
8 Renishaw & BAE Systems
to work on AM capability
8 Starrag unveils Bumotec
rental scheme
8 Gühring/Chiron claim steel
alloy maching record
9 Walter to launch two
machines at GrindTec
9 Eclipse Magnetics supports
HSE COSSH initiative
9 Universal Robots enhances
service offering
9 Appointments: GTMA,
Bowers, TW Ward, Gewefa
New products
9 Haas sub-spindle option
9 Igus’ smart system
9 FANUC cobot
9 Mastercam/Widia Novo
9 XYZ large gap-bed lathe
9 Acoustic monitoring
9 Shadow boards
9 Index & Traub lathes
9 Mapal tool management
9 Tebis 4.0 more automated
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25 years ago...
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assembly facility in Germany. In other news: Starrag has helped kit out
Manufacturing misses out; investment support; punch press tooling maker
automates; EDM agency news; Hydrafeed bar feeder success; Fastems created;
Deckel Maho Gildemeister story continues; Europe’s open CNC project
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company, which bought Hurco Europe’s EDM business in mid-
1994. The company is the of cial spares and service provider for
Agemaspark, Hurco and British-built Eurospark machines.
Elsewhere, Hydrafeed is reporting its largest ever order for
Multifeed short bar magazine loader. With more than 160 sold
during 2019, the rm is to expand its Milton Keynes base.
On the international scene, Finnish rm Fastems has been
established, taking in the products and services previously handled
by Valmet Transmec. It will provide inter-machine automation, as
well as special and standard machine tools. It subsequently set up
a UK base, in Dartford, Kent, and today specialises in machine tool
-related parts handling automation. An interview with German
machine tool maker Gildemeister AG’s chairman, Axel Kemna,
reveals the current Deckel-Maho-Gildemeister situation, which has
seen Gildemeister AG bring the two other companies together as of
August 1994, but which were already within Gildemeister AG as
separate rms – all three brands had been sold through Deckel
Maho Gildemeister (DMG) Vertriebs since January 1994. Today,
DMG Mori incorporates all these brands and more.
We have news also of a European research project that aims to
develop an open CNC architecture. Called OSACA, it seeks to allow
both realtime and non-realtime software modules to be ‘plugged
into’ a system, regardless of CNC hardware supplier. A complete
platform is scheduled for demonstration in spring 1996.
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Separate Aerospace Supplement
Autodesk has been promoting generative design in connection with
component design for some time. But this constraint-based approach
has recently been used in designing a new, more sustainable Airbus
a factory that is setting new standards in the machining of aerostructures;
WFL has supported a Brazilian rm’s efforts in landing gear
machining; we review Stratasys’ plastics’ 3D printing success in the
sector; plus how two rms bene t from their CADCAM systems
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Our rst issue this month sees us bemoan the manufacturing
sector’s failure to put in a showing at an event where the
previous November’s Budget could have been challenged
through a well-presented argument that Treasury Minister Anthony
Nelson would have heard in person. The construction sector did
turn up at the Manufacturing and Construction Industries Alliance
meeting, a group fronted by Nicholas Winterton, MP.
In our second issue, Bank of England Governor Eddie George
advises industry to avoid talking itself into exaggerated gloom. He
was speaking at the Machine Tool Technologies Association’s
(MTTA) annual dinner. But a week later, Base Rate was lifted by
0.5%, to 6.75%, the third consecutive rise. MTTA president Stan
Vaughan advised Governor George that “investment in productive
high technology and the people to use it effectively are not an
optional extra for a leading industrial nation”. We say that when
talking about tax distortions in relation to investment tax support,
as George did, other countries’ investment practices shouldn’t be
ignored, as they put us at a competitive disadvantage.
In news, punch press tooling maker Rydal Precision has
invested in automation to support next-day delivery of punches (the
Swanley, Kent-based company continues today). The International
Gearing Conference has been staged at The University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with 89 papers presented. And an Industry
4.0-ish theme of applying neural networks to monitor gear quality
during processing was one of the areas
discussed.
In the EDM area, Eurospark has had its rst
Open House since commencing operations at the
end of 1993. It offers its own ES range, is a
Hurco, Hardinge and Sodick agent, and offers
technical support (the Leicester rm continues
today). Staying with EDM, the 1950s’ Sparcatron
brand continues through the Sparcatron
Feature articles this month cover: a British designed and built
CMM; laser pro ling beam control developments and their
importance; how installation of a £500,000 fabrication centre
shielded its owner from recession; a £2.5m exible manufacturing
system for large pump housing machining at Weir Pumps;
toolchanger design innovation at Bridgeport Machines; plus a
fourth-generation machine tool building, rebuilding and agency
representation success story at Binns & Berry (but which
subsequently failed at the turn of the century).
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banking rm, Barings
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Key feb Bank,back of rogue trader
Nick Leeson’s
investments
Arsenal manager
George Graham
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illegal payments
from an agent in
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Manufacturing’s
biggest rise in employment
since
Conservatives
came to power
16 years earlier
electrical appliances
Fred Perry,
Wimbeldon
Tennis
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MonsterMill TCR – ensuring service life
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