(LATROBE, PA) -- The ROTAFLEX™ high-performance hole-finishing system from WIDIA, with a long history of proven successes, now features new developments that further its reputation as the premier hole-finishing solution for metalworking manufacturers.
With both roughing and precision finishing heads available, ROTAFLEX is a single WIDIA system for both roughing and fine-finishing operations over a broad diameter range — 6 mm to 520 mm (.236 in. to 20.4 in.). The very stable KM-TS™ coupling and the newly developed RFX™ coupling are applicable to almost every machine spindle, provide easy assembly and disassembly, and extremely stable operation. Because of the new ROTAFLEX system upgrades, up to 20% higher feed rates are possible in rough machining applications due to less vibration, resulting in increased machine tool productivity and longer intervals between scheduled maintenance.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama conceded Tuesday (July 14th, 2009) that the unemployment rate will keep growing for "several months" as he prepared to head to battered Michigan to unveil a plan to help train people for the next generation of jobs.
Obama is proposing a multibillion-dollar investment in the nation's community colleges, a $12 billion effort to help the two-year institutions reach, teach, and train more people for "the jobs of the future." He was to outline his program in a speech Tuesday afternoon at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich.
Automotive Interiors Expo will be launched in Stuttgart Germany in June 2010 to provide the automotive design, development, engineering, and manufacturing community with a first-class international showcase exhibition for car and truck interiors.
JATO Dynamics, the world’s leading provider of automotive data and intelligence, has released its monthly European new car market analysis for June and the H1 period of 2009. Overall, the new car market has continued to improve over the first six months of the year although the figures are still significantly down on 2008. At the end of June the market was down 10.3% YtD, a 15.7% improvement on the January figure of 26.0% demonstrating a slow but progressive improvement each month.
Unsurprisingly, the Volkswagen Golf continues to dominate the sales charts with sales up 32.8% on the same month last year and Volkswagen remains the biggest selling brand in Europe.
(July 15, 2009) - NVision Inc. and FixLogix LLC have partnered to provide a new easy-to-use and economical modular part-holding system designed especially for non-contact scanning. The FixLogix part-holding system uses a t-slot fixture plate with integrated components to stage the part on the machine. The system is said to offer tremendous savings compared to conventional fixtures and offers a superior solution to laser scanning applications due to the infinite adjustability of the t-slot system. "The FixLogix system is the first part-holding system to deliver exactly what is needed for diverse engineering projects," said Steve Kersen, President of NVision. "We are excited to bundle it with one of our scanning systems to provide our customers a complete turn-key solution for both reverse engineering and inspection."
