Midwest Manufacturing News • July 2014

MW M W MIDWEST Vol. 8 No. 7 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 DIY Automation Automation July 2014 See Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com Horizontal Boring Mill Fuels Energy Sector Business Expansion IMTS 2014 Conference Registration Open, Conference Speakers Set Registration is open for the IMTS -The International Manufacturing Tech-nology Show 2014 Conference, which will run four days during IMTS, Sep-tember 8-11. IMTS takes place Septem-ber 8-13 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. “The IMTS community has made it clear that educational events for profes-sionals already in the industry are es-sential as manufacturing moves ahead,” said Peter R. Eelman, Vice Pres-ident -Exhibitions & Communications, Continued on Page 114 Central Screw Products utilizes a robot with new VMC and has achieved a five-fold increase in throughput... See Page 14 Nitinol Stent Micro Manufacturing The Fives Giddings & Lewis MC Series brings machining center capabilities to horizontal boring mills for automated large-part production. “Our primary business is large parts, some with more than 300 machined features, so the new boring mill not only expands our part capacity, it also boosts our efficiency with pallet changing and machining center capabilities,” said Mike Manna, General Manager, Milwaukee Machine Works. Romi Appoints Jones Machinery as New Dealer Romi Machine Tools Ltd. has ap-pointed Jones Machinery Inc. as its dis-tributor for Kentucky, Southern Ohio and Southern Indiana. Founded in 1981, Jones Machinery was acquired by Kevin Merk in 1992. Since then, he has built a team of sales, application and service specialists to better serve the Ohio, Kentucky and In-diana machine tool markets. Factory trained service technicians provide on-site service to help their Continued on Page 116 Manufactured using R-Tube all-laser system which requires no post processing... See Page 34 M i l w a u k e e M a c h i n e Wo r k s (MMW), manufacturer of large-scale, critical-tolerance machined parts and assemblies, is increasing part capacity and expanding its energy sector busi-ness with a dual-pallet Giddings & Lewis MC 1600 horizontal boring mill (HBM) from Fives. The rotary table HBM, designed for multi-axis contour milling, precision boring, drilling and tapping, was installed last month at the Continued on Page 114 Aluminum Chips and Fines Applying Technology IT.TE.DI. s.r.l. Opens North America Headquarters IT.TE.DI. s.r.l., head-quartered in Arezzo, Italy, Member of IMC group and a manufac-turer of high precision PCD and CBN custom tools and standard milling cutters, has an-nounced the opening of IT.TE.DI. North America. The new North America headquarters will be lo-cated in Rockford, IL. Continued on Page 114 Brooks Precision Machining solves problem of buildup of fines with new filtration and separation system... See Page 60 Creative CNC LLC Becomes a Siemens PLM Software Partner Creative CNC LLC has joined the Siemens PLM Software Partner Pro-gram, enabling it to distribute Siemens’ NX software for computer aided de-sign (CAD) and computer aided manu-facturing (CAM). Creative CNC is currently responsible for NX CAD and CAM sales in three states, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. NX is devel-oped by Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business. “We are pleased to be able to offer this PLM technology to our current and future customers,” said Janet Murphy, President, Creative CNC LLC. “It is Continued on Page 116 Fast Hole EDM Drilling EDM Machinery & Consumables For the production of film cooling holes and shaped diffuser holes in blades and vanes... See Page 70 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: Detect if the stop switch actuator becomes disconnected from the emergency stop actuator... See Page 94 Fail Safe Emergency Stop Plant Safety Advertiser Index Page 82 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