Midwest Manufacturing News • April 2013

MW MIDWEST Vol. 7 No. 4 M ANUFACTURING N EWS Serving Since 2007 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin Feature Editorial Medical Manufacturing Carbide Endmills April 2013 Complete Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com Medical Manufacturing with Gang-Tool Turning Center proved quality of life. Demand is high for high-precision components for neu-rological, orthopeadic, spinal/bone fixa-tion, dental implants, drug infusion, catheter connectors, opti-cal, maxillofacial, micro/ minimally invasive, sur-gical instruments and other medical devices, most of which can be m anu f ac-tured on the Hardinge Q U E S T SUPER-PRE-CISION GT27 gang-tool turn-ing center,” s aid a com -pany spokes-person. The Hardinge QUEST SUPER-PRECISION GT27 gang-tool turning center is designed for machining small Continued on Page 5 DMG / Mori Seiki USA to Host Largest Innovation Days “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 yet,” said a DMG / Mori Seiki 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, tooling, programming techniques and Continued on Page 6 Designed for machining of mission critical metallics... See Page 12 Rotary Axis Metalforming/ Fabricating/Waterjet “Medical part manufacturing con-tinues to be a rapidly growing market due to the large population of aging baby boomers who are looking for im-EPIC CNC Technology Add On for Legacy Hydromat Machines Hydromat Inc. is now offering two add-on systems, the EPIC RS (Remote System) and EPIC SS (System Six), for upgrading older hydraulically driven Legacy style Hydromat Rotary Trans-fer machines to CNC capability. The EPIC R/T machines introduced in 2003 contained a newly created full CNC drive system that offered a simple plug-and-play control architecture for each tool spindle. Now, Hydromat has utilized technology designed to sim-plify CNC hardware components in Continued on Page 8 Facilitates complex design capabilities for waterjet cutting... See Page 34 Flexible Throughput Applying Technology CAMPAT Machine Tool Introduces 5-Axis Leadwell V-60iT VMC During 25th Year Celebration CAMPAT M ach ine Tools Inc., celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2013 by hos ting a n Ope n House April 18-19th in its new facility and will use the occasion to showcase the new Leadwell V-60iT 5-axis Vertical Machining Center under power for inspection by visitors. The V-60iT is a new 5-axis model featuring a 24.8 inch (630 mm) integrated tilting rotary table and a 12,000 RPM ceramic/ steel hybrid bearing spin-dle. Power is generated Continued on Page 5 Waltz Bros. triples productivity with new honing process and decreased operator intervention by 80%... See Page 48 U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Have Best Year Since 1996 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% compared with 2011. Continued on Page 8 High Speed Drilling/Tapping/ Threading Tool changer with a time of 1.1 seconds on MILLTAP 700... See Page 58 CAMPAT Machine Tool introduces the Leadwell V-60iT 5-Axis CNC Vertical Machining Center, a machine tool specifically designed for the American marketplace. Lens Savers Replacement Parts & Accessories To make name, address subscription changes contact: • Phone: 800-375-8488 • Fax: 817-488-7813 • E-mail: info@mfgnewsweb.com • www.mfgnewsweb.com Subscription Changes: For fiber lasers more than triple the life of the lens... See Page 78 Advertiser Index Page 56 CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Gross Publications, Inc. MIDWEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 PAID