West Manufacturing News • April 2013

M ANUFACTURING N EWS WEST Vol. 2 No. 4 April 2013 Serving Since 2012 Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington & Wyoming Feature Editorial Medical Manufacturing Carbide Endmills Designed for machining of mission critical metallics... See Page 12 Complete Online Digital Editions at www.mfgnewsweb.com Hurco Announces New Representation in California and Nevada fornia. Machinery Sales will repre-s ent Hu rco in southern Califor-nia while HS&S w ill rep res ent Hurco in north-ern C alif ornia and northern Ne-vada. “I am confi-dent the team at Machinery Sales and HS&S will be suc c e ssful in d em onstrating the value Hurco technology pro-vides. In particu-(l-r) Garry Frost, President and Gary Smith, lar, the Hu rco Chairman, Machinery Sales Company. control has multi-Hurco announced that Machinery ple features that help shops increase Sales Company and HS&S Machine profitability in a high mix/small batch Tool and Metrology have been selected environment. Additionally, UltiMotion, as the exclusive distributors for Cali-Continued on Page 6 “Manufacturing businesses across all industries are invited to Innovation Days 2013, held at the DMG / Mori Seiki USA headquarters outside of Chicago, May 7-10. This event is set to be our biggest U.S. open-house event y et,” s aid a DMG / Mori Se i ki spokesperson. The show will feature more ma-chines, more seminars and an extra day to fit it all in. Machining demonstra-tions and one-on-one application con-sultation will focus on advances in machine-tool technology, software, Continued on Page 9 DMG / Mori Seiki USA to Host Largest Innovation Days Rotary Axis Metalforming/ Fabricating/Waterjet Facilitates complex design capabilities for waterjet cutting... See Page 22 CAMPAT Machine Tool Introduces the 5-Axis Leadwell V-60iT Vertical Machining Center CAMPAT Ma-chine Tools Inc., celebrates its 25th An ni ve rsar y in 2013 by hosting an Open House April 18-19th in its new facility and will use the occasion to showcase the new Leadwell V-60iT 5-axis Vertical Ma-chining C enter under power for inspection by visi-tors. The V-60iT is a new 5-axis model featuring a 24.8 inch (630 mm) inte-grated tilting rotary Cont. on Page 6 Quality Vision International (QVI) has announced plans for its 2013 West-ern Region Technical Tour. The Tech Tour is a series of user group seminars and micro-shows held in conjunction with QVI channel partners where visi-tors can see and interact with the latest measurement and quality control tech-nology. The Tech Tour will make five stops in the spring and summer at lo-cations across the Western U.S. QVI Tech Tours will showcase the latest QVI-developed technologies for inspection and measurement from Op-tical Gaging Products, RAMOptical In-strumentation, Certified Comparator Continued on Page 8 QVI Announces 2013 Tech Tour Applying Technology Flexible Throughput Waltz Bros. triples productivity with new honing process and decreased operator intervention by 80%... See Page 36 Drilling/Tapping/ Threading High Speed Tool changer with a time of 1.1 seconds on MILLTAP 700... See Page 42 U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Have Best Year Since 1996 CAMPAT Machine Tool, Inc. introduces the Leadwell V-60iT 5-Axis CNC Vertical Machining Center, a machine tool specifically designed for the American marketplace. December U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $499.43 mil-lion according to AMT -The Associa-tion For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTO program, was up 17.8% from November but down 9.4% when compared with the total of $550.99 million reported for De-cember 2011. With a year-end total of $5,705.58 million, 2012 was up 2.6% Continued on Page 8 Lens Savers Replacement Parts & Accessories Subscription Changes: To make name, address subscription changes contact: • Phone: 800-375-8488 • Fax: 817-488-7813 • E-mail: info@mfgnewsweb.com • www.mfgnewsweb.com CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 For fiber lasers more than triple the life of the lens... See Page 54 Advertiser Index Page 53 Gross Publications, Inc. WEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID