Located in Salisbury, Apsley Precision Engineering Ltd recently installed a new FANUC ROBODRILL D21LiB5 machining centre. MTDCNC travelled to Wiltshire to find out why this subcontract manufacturer with a plant list that includes Miyano, Doosan, XYZ, HAAS, Brother and Matsuura, made the most recent ...

Afully automatic cell based around two Heckert 5-axis horizontal T45 machining centres from Starrag with integrated robot handling is making planetary gear carriers in half the time of conventional methods – and reducing tool costs by 25% and halving traditional equipment costs as well!

The T45...

The de Havilland Engineering Group offers a comprehensive supply of small to large metal fabrications from its Stonehouse facility and due to the broad size range of its work, the business has invested in machine tools from Hurco.

Heavy fabrication contracts cover industry sectors such as oil and...

McCallum Bagpipes Ltd has recently acquired a cobot from Mills CNC Automation, the distributor of Doosan collaborative robots in the UK.

The M1013 cobot was supplied with RG6 OnRobot gripper end-effectors. It was installed in the company’s facility in February by Engineering Supply Co (Scotland) ...

Lindsay Atkins is looking puzzled. The data displayed on the new FourJaw tablet shows that one CNC machine is stopping alarmingly often. When she asks the operator why, he explains that a probe on the machine is faulty, but not to worry. He has developed a fix. The operators fix has been used for a ...

Around 200 bones make up the human skeleton, which is held together and moved by more than 600 muscles and tendons. The organs, muscles, bones, vessels and nerves form a functioning, perfectly matched system. With 100,000 beats per day, the heart pumps more than 6,000 litres of blood around the body...

High-speed machining (HSM) has not only led to a significant difference between machine tools but has also brought awareness to the high-speed spindle. This has now become one of the most important and central components of high-speed machine tools.

Operating a spindle with high rotation speed and ...

Kennametal has now introduced a new patented FBX drill for flat-bottom drilling of structural aerospace parts. The FBX drill delivers stability and higher metal removal rates when machining high-temperature alloys, stainless steel and other materials.

Four effective cutting edges provide stabilit...

With the arrival of the new 222 System of turning and grooving tools, Guhring has extended and defined its position as an industry-leading supplier of full-line turning solutions. The new parting-off line demonstrates productivity, efficiency and performance parameters beyond its rivals.

Incorpor...

Moving with the times, Trek Bicycles has invested in tooling systems from BIG KAISER that are supplied and supported in the UK through Tamworth based Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC). Trek has been on the front lines of the electric bike movement and other equipment advances like cycling lights,...