Southwest Manufacturing News • Oct 18

SW SOUTHWEST Vol. 53 No. 10 M ANUFACTURING N EWS Serving Since 1965 Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana & New Mexico Feature Editorial Metalcutting New CNC Mill Series October 2018 See Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com Slant Bed and Turret Type Lathes Registration Now Open for FABTECH 2018 in Atlanta FABTECH, a metalforming, fabri-cating, welding and finishing event, re-turns to Atlanta in 2018. At the Georgia World Congress Center on November 6-8 visitors can connect with more than 1,500 exhibitors and 35,000+ industry colleagues. Experience live equipment demonstrations and find cost-cutting products and solutions. Education programs, keynotes, ex-pert panels and other special events give visitors an opportunity to interact with technical experts and industry-leading visionaries to learn what is new and what Continued on Page 79 The new series features a newly designed enclosure and stand, robust spindle drives and more. See Page 12 Turret Type Hollow Spindle 45” Swing Lathe Software CAM solution is suitable for mold, tool & die, complex aerospace and automotive applications. See Page 28 Megabore Machinery offers its CNC Oil Country SS Series 31/35 Lathes and and Turret Type Hollow Spindle 45” Swing Lathe. SS Series 31/35 The SS series is a medium-duty slant bed lathe. It is available in two models: SS-31 (31” swing) and SS-35 (35” swing). Notable features include: • One-piece bed, 45” slant bed construc-tion offers enhanced stability and con-venient chip disposal • Alloy steel spindle with opposed taper roller bearings • The quill and all gears in the headstock are hardened and precision ground • Automatic ranges of spindle speed through pneumatic gear shift • Auto lubrication system is equipped for headstock, carriage and cross-slide Continued on Page 26 CAM with Additive Technology SwRI Establishes Cobots Laboratory Venture Plastics Purchases New 950-Ton Injection Molding Press Venture Plastics, Inc., a full-service ISO 9001:2015, IATF 16949 certified cus-tom thermoplastics injection molder with processing facilities in Newton Falls, OH, and El Paso, TX, continues to meet cus-tomer demand with new equipment. A new FVX 860 (950-ton) Nissei in-jection molding press will be installed at the Southwest Venture Plastics, LLC plant in El Paso, TX, to support customers in the Southwestern portions of the U.S. and in Central America. This will join another FVX 860 Nissei machine that was added Continued on Page 94 Applying Technology Becoming a Multi-Faceted Shop VMC provides rigid, reliable machining of hardened materials. See Page 48 Machine Maintenance Compact Machine Monitoring The new Collaborative Robotics Laboratory at SwRI features safe work areas where engineers develop advanced capabilities for cobots that can be ported to larger industrial robots. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has launched a Collaborative Robotics Laboratory to deliver advanced automa-tion technology to the heavy industry and manufacturing sectors. Continued on Page 94 Learn to Embrace Disruption and Lead Innovation at ASQ’s 2018 Quality 4.0 Summit ASQ’s 2018 Quality 4.0 Summit on disruption, innovation and change, held Nov. 12–13, in Dallas, TX, will provide or-ganizations with insights into the expo-nential growth of disruptive technologies and the changes those technologies are bringing to the workplace. “Technological changes — like artifi-cial intelligence, big data, robotics and Continued on Page 92 New stand-alone system for collision monitoring, crash damage mitigation. See Page 56 Welding SmartTechniques technology is engineered to increase productivity and quality in laser welding, cutting and drilling. See Page 86 Technology Increases Productivity 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 Gross Publications, Inc. SOUTHWEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 Advertiser Index Page 65 PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID