CJS Industries, Inc. was founded in July of 1993 in Topeka, Kansas by Steve Overbey, president; Jeff Berke, general manager, and Jim Lee, vice president of manufacturing. All three worked for the same metal finishing company (although in different departments) prior to starting their own business. Jim has 22 years of production experience in various [...]
Entries from August 2008
CJS Industries of Topeka offers CNC punching, CNC bending, machining and welding
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: CNC Punch
Metaltech Products Installs New CNC Equipment
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Metaltech Products, Inc., Lebanon, Missouri, has recently installed new CNC equipment.
The seven-year-old custom job-shop offers complete metal fabrication (sheet, light-plate and structural), engineering and drafting services. It operates in 30,000-sq.-ft. of space with 66 employees.
Equipment recently installed at Metaltech Products includes: a Trumpf Trumatic 202OR CNC punching center which can handle material up to 1/4″ [...]
Tags: CNC Punch
CNC Turret Punch Presses
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Offered in 20 and 30 metric-ton models, the Verona Series of CNC thick turret tooling-style punch presses from Strippit/LVD (Akron, NY) provide a large turret capacity, a mix of stations, and large feed clearance.
The machines punch materials up to 0.250″ (6.4-mm) thick with a maximum hit rate of 1000 hpm at 0.04″ (1mm) pitch. Combining [...]
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CNC bridge mills provide economic alternative
August 10th, 2008 · No Comments
CNC bridge mills offer an economical alternative to routers and large milling machines for producing large components under optional thermal control conditions.
Ideally suited to light and medium duty metal cutting applications, XYZ Machine Tools’ new BRM CNC bridge mills offer an economical alternative to routers and large milling machines Control is by way of the [...]
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Die/mold VMCs
August 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Well-suited for die/mold applications, NVD4000 DCG VCMs incorporate
five ballscrews — two on the Y, two on the Z, and one on the X — that reportedly reduce vibration without sacrificing speed for accuracy. Input increments of 0.1 µ increase machine resolution, and all three axes have direct-scale feedback for accuracy in constant-running applications. There is [...]
Tags: Diy CNC
CAM: From Fragmented Disciplines to Systems Architecture
August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
A system architecture for integrated manufacturing engineering is emerging from the point solutions now in use after three decades since the inception of APT. Today’s conventional process planning, NC programming, documentation, offline and CMM programming, and other applications offer powerful functionality but encourage compartmentalization that results in errors, rework and duplication of effort. There are [...]
Tags: CNC Code
CNC Tube Bender Designed for 21st Century Production
August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Winton Machine announces its line on eCNC mandrel tube benders. The family of eCNC benders is designed to bend high quality 3D tubular parts efficiently by making use of the latest electronics and software. The series of benders can bend tubing from 1mm diameter to 50mm diameter. The eCNC line of tube benders is available [...]
Tags: CNC Tubing Benders
