EXAIR’s family of Safety Air Guns (Precision Safety Air Gun, Soft Grip Safety Air Gun, and Heavy Duty Safety Air Gun) has always provided high quality performance for your blowoff, drying or cleaning needs. Now, they are available with Chip Shields to protect workers and to help businesses comply with OSHA safety standards. Chip Shields [...]
The best thing about a new year is new products. Pierson Workholding has expanded their SmartVac II product line with new vacuum chuck sizes. Sizes are 9 x 14, 13.5 x 13.5 and 13.5 x 20. The 13.5 x 20 size more than doubles the size of the original 9 x 14. Optional top plates [...]
In an industry that sometimes progress as slowly as a slug in peanut butter, we always love new products that truly are new concepts. The Ultra Precision Combination Arbor from GenSwiss is one of them. Why call up another tool when you can simply combine your slitting saw and drill into one toolholder? Makes perfect [...]
Miller Electric has developed a Miller Weld Setting Calculator available via the IPhone App Store or MillerWelds.com/weldsettings. The calculator allows welders to conveniently access Stick, TIG and MIG equipment settings and other helpful tips. Upon entering weld parameters, e.g. the type of material and material thickness being welded, the calculator will provide suggested settings including [...]
EXAIR’s new 110 Gallon Chip Trapper™ (patent pending) offers a fast, easy way to clean large coolant sumps. Chip Trapper removes the solids such as chips, swarf and shavings out of used coolants and other liquids. Coolant that used to last only six weeks can now last six months or more. It is ideal for [...]
Move over baby monitor… Now monitoring our industrial babies has never been easier. Never again will the Monday morning crew come in to find the Friday night setup only ran for an hour before an alarm stopped production. The FactoryWiz CNC Monitoring Appliance simplifies the task of monitoring your CNCs. Each FactoryWiz allows you to [...]
Dassault Systemes, makers of SolidWorks, are now offering their CAD software DraftSight as a free download. DraftSight is a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators to download [...]
Celeritive Technologies, Inc., announces release of version 3.5.2 of its VoluMill™ toolpath software. VoluMill has undergone a major re-engineering and is now 30 percent faster on complex parts than previous versions. The primary focus of version 3.5 was on reducing overall path length and machine cycle times. One of VoluMill’s key improvement areas is speed [...]
The ability to turn and mill complex parts and perform multiple operations on one machine increases throughput, reduces handling, and improves accuracy. The Haas ST-10Y is a small-footprint Y-axis turning center that provides 4″ of Y-axis travel (±2″ from the centerline) for off-center milling, drilling, and tapping, and comes standard with high-torque live tooling and [...]
As reported at the recent IMTS 2010, Kennametal debuted an interactive catalog app for the iPad® platform. Users can conveniently download any and all of Kennametal’s numerous product catalogs and review products and specifications, request quotes, view engineering drawings or videos, or contact technical support for more information. Now this app is available for download [...]
