Midwest Manufacturing News • September 2015

MW M W MIDWEST Vol. 9 No. 9 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 New Flexible Pin Clamping Workholding September 2015 See Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com Fives Hosts Northern Kentucky University Tech Campers Hurco Acquires Milltronics, Takumi Machinery Hurco Companies, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of machine tools with integrated control technologies, has, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, ac-quired substantially all of the assets of Waconia, MN-based Milltronics Manu-facturing Company, Inc. Milltronics de-signs and manufactures CNC knee mills, toolroom bed mills, vertical ma-chining centers (VMCs), combination lathes, slant-bed lathes, horizontal ma-chining centers (HMCs) and bed mills. In addition, Hurco’s subsidiary, Hurco Manufacturing Limited, has en-tered into an agreement to acquire the Continued on Page 124 Axial movable pins contact the part and generate a form fit between the element and the part... See Page 14 Vertical Turning Lathe The PL350CM with a 3,500 mm table that can swing and cut up to a 4,000 mm part... See Page 38 Energy Manufacturing Aiming to influence early career choices, Fives Cincinnati recently hosted 19 students from 17 area high schools at-tending Northern Kentucky University’s Engineering Technology Camp. The stu-dents received a guided facility tour where they heard explanations of Fives own manufacturing processes. They also received detailed descriptions of aero-space composites technology, layup sys-tems and metalcutting systems being built by Fives for customers. Hands-on exposure to semi-finished aerospace components reinforced the experience. According to Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Ph.D., Engineering Technol-ogy Coordinator at Northern Kentucky Continued on Page 124 GF Machining Solutions Enters 3-D Printing Market Via Strategic Agreement with EOS GF Machining Solutions, a division of GF, and EOS have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to offer customers innovative solutions combin-ing both companies’ technologies. The two companies have agreed to focus on the mold and die sector. “They will develop exclusive solutions for moldmakers, a market in which GF Machining Solutions holds a leading Continued on Page 126 Gear Tooth Cutting Services Perry Technology manufactures a diverse variety of custom made-to-order parts, involute spur and helical gears... See Page 64 Applying Technology Linear Expands Moldmaking and 3-D Metal Printing Linear Mold & Engineering, a manu-facturer of precision injection molds, molded parts and 3-D metal printing of production parts for OEMs and Tier 1 sup-pliers in the automo-tive, aerospace and medical markets, has added new machin-ery to meet the com-pany’s rapid growth. A new gun drill for deep-hole drilling for water lines, ejector pin holes and custom manifolds will give Linear the ability to bring that work back in-house. “It is good to be in moldmaking Productivity Inc. Partners with Moncktons Machine Tool right now. The mold world is very busy these days and we outsource a lot of gun drill work,” said John Tenbusch, Continued on Page 124 Productivity Inc., a Midwest dis-tributor of CNC machine tools and re-lated metalworking equipment, has combined with Moncktons Machine Tools, a long-standing machine tool company serving the Colorado and Rocky Mountain region since 1952. This new entity, also called MMT, LLC, A Division of Productivity (abbre-viated from Moncktons Machine Tools) has offices in Denver and Salt Lake City. While MMT, LLC will continue to service the Rocky Mountain region and Continued on Page 126 Proper illumination is the most vital technology for part inspection when using an optical comparator. See Page 72 All-LED Illumination Quality Control & Measurement Robot Performance Welding Six axis robot offers a reach of 1,420 mm and a 12 kg payload... See Page 90 Welding 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: Advertiser Index Page 80 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