Southwest Manufacturing News • April 2015

S W SW SOUTHWEST Vol. 50 No. 4 M ANUFACTURING N EWS Serving Since 1965 Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana & New Mexico Feature Editorial Drilling / Tapping Synchro Tapping Chuck Designed for minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and dry processing for reasons of efficiency and environment... See Page 10 April 2015 See Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com Swiss Cut Cutting Tools Line SMI Machine Tools Expands Territory Matsuura Mac h in ery USA, a provider of high-speed machining and automated, unmanned high-accuracy CNC machine tools, has announced the territory expansion of SMI Machine Tools. Effective immediately, SMI Ma-chine Tools will serve as the exclusive distributor for Matsuura in Louisiana as well as its current region of Texas. Continued on Page 126 Medical Manufacturing Aqueous Cleaning Systems Serves medical manufacturers providing treatment of cardiovascular diseases... See Page 40 Tech Event Hosted by Haas Factory Outlet and Kennametal The demand for manufacturing mass-produced small diameter parts is growing by the day. This growth in the m i n i a t u re a p p l i c a t i o n t o o l s h a s prompted the invention of the ISCAR Swiss Tools. “These Swiss tool families under the HIGHQLINE help reduce the cycle time to produce the parts, while in-creasing machine tool capacity and im-proving profitability,” said a company spokesperson. One of the products under the Swiss Tools portfolio is the Swiss Cut. The design of the Swiss Cut has a dovetail clamping system to pro-vide insert stability. The elliptical screw holes allow indexing of inserts without Continued on Page 42 Haas Factory Outlet (HFO) -Austin (a division of Champions Machine Tool Sales) and Kennametal will host a live technology presentation on April 29, from 10 AM until 4 PM at the HFO Buda, TX, location. Kennametal will display its latest cutting tool technol-ogy, as well as presenting milling and turning productivity seminars related to the cutting demonstrations on the Haas showroom machines. Local and national Kennametal representatives Continued on Page 126 Applying Technology Electron Beam Weld Aerospace link assemblies used in engines for civilian and military aircraft... See Page 64 Deep Hole Drilling Precihole Machine Tools Pvt. Ltd. offers deep hole drilling machines with capabilities engineered to facilitate pro-duction of a variety of parts. The GVN series of single-axis gun drilling equip-ment includes machines with one to four spindles that can apply drills from 2 mm (0.07”) to 25 mm (1”) in diameter to produce holes at depths of 400 mm -1,000 mm (16” -40”). The largest versions can handle com-ponents up to 125 mm (5”) O.D. and weigh-ing as much as 50 kg (110 lbs.). Feedrates extend from 0-1,000 mm/min (0-40”/min), and there is a choice of 1.5 kW (2 HP) or 9 kW (12 HP) spindle power. The GVN machines have a compact footprint and touchscreen HMI. Among available optional features are auto-matic component loading/unloading, Continued on Page 16 North TX NTMA Meeting at CAMPAT CAMPAT Machine Tool, Inc. will host the North Texas Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Associ-ation (NTMA) on Thursday, April 16. CAMPAT is located at 1700 10th Street, Plano, TX 75074. CAMPAT’s technical staff will fea-ture a demonstration of a machining center being ballbar tested to improve the geometric accuracy of a machine and will discuss axis backlash compensation. Continued on Page 126 Metalforming / Fabricating / Waterjet New Short Torch For 3D plasma cutting that is capable of proper beveling motion... See Page 70 Replacement Parts Gear Couplings See Exhibitor Product Previews Starting On Page 122 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 positive torque transmission that compensates for radial, axial and angular shaft misalignments... See Page 88 Gross Publications, Inc. SOUTHWEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 Advertiser Index Page 111 PAID