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Responsibility for all Agie Charmilles’ EDM and 5-axis CNC milling machine operations in the UK and Ireland is now in the hands of UK managing director, Steve Sylvester
Agie Charmilles, the EDM and high-speed/ 5-axis milling machine tool specialist has appointed Steve Sylvester as UK managing director. The position was vacated when previous managing director, Tony [...]

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Latest CNC lathes feature Fanuc OiTC conversational programming based control which includes enhanced 3D graphics simulation and are an ideal platform for novice operators to program
Loaded with the latest revolutionary Fanuc Manual Guide i software in the Fanuc OiTC conversational programming based control which includes enhanced 3D graphics simulation, the Colchester MultiTurn 2000 provides the [...]

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Technology is the most influential business sector changing the shape of the economy and everyday life in the 21st century. Its reach extends far into the manufacturing world, and, in the last four decades, technology has made its irreversible mark with NC, DNC, CNC, CAM, and CAD.
Now the industry is wondering where manufacturing technology, and [...]

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With Delcam’s free CAD viewer — users see but can’t change — CAD models in all major formats, including Catia versions 4 and 5, Pro/Engineer 2001 and Wildfire, SDRC, Unigraphics, SolidWorks, and Solid Edge, as well as industry standards like Parasolid XT, IGES, VDA, and STEP. Shops can download the viewer from Delcam’s website or [...]

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Initial application at Boeing proves that OPC, an open connectivity standard, holds potential to cut costs in linking computer numerical control to the enterprise.
The Open Modular Architecture Control User Group’s (OMAC) Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Working Group has finished a trial application at Boeing using OPC as the integration technology to connect a computer numeric control [...]

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An email from a reader implied the question of whether anyone who continues to use manual machine tools is making money.
The author, Jim Ream, owner of QMS Inc. in Glasgow, Ky., has a six-man job shop equipped with Haas and Fryer CNC machines, wire EDMs, and grinders.
“I recently went through the newest school in Kentucky [...]

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