A major advance in rotary table design has been introduced by Kitagawa. It is the first of a new generation of compact, low energy units that incorporate a high efficiency direct drive motor to achieve increased torque at lower power consumption. With a face plate diameter of 240mm, a register diameter of 100mm, a 45mm through-hole […]

The low-cost V391, part of the Darex Drill Sharpener range, increases drill sharpening productivity and accuracy while reducing costs. The versatile, easy to use unit is suitable for drills from 3mm to 19mm diameter with point angles from 118 to 140 degrees and will accurately regrind standard, HSS, cobalt, thick webbed and split point drills. […]

Eliminating manual loading and unloading of components in chucking lathes, machining centres and other machine tools boosts productivitiy and frees operators to supervise more machines. Labour costs are reduced and profits are increased, making it easier to compete with manufacturers and subcontractors in low-wage countries. Aimed at this market is the new Automata Palletiser gantry […]

Kitagawa’s latest QJR08, QJR10 and QJR12 quick change power chucks are interchangeable with the company’s popular large through-hole B208 / B210 / B212 and BB208 / BB210 / BB212 models. The new units’ base jaws, which are rapidly and simply changed using a manually operated wrench, feature metric serrations to accommodate a wide variety of […]

High clamping torques, extreme rigidity and fast operation are key features of Kitagawa’s new GT series, heavy duty NC rotary tables. Available in three models with tables from 200 to 320 mm diameter, the new units incorporate a novel piston design that delivers component clamping torques of up to 2,800 Nm. Productivity is further enhanced […]

Selecting an Iemca servo-driven bar magazine from 1st MTA to feed a new lathe, rather than accepting the default pneumatic barfeed offered by the machine supplier, has raised productivity and is saving material at Downton subcontractor, Mikina Precision Engineering. In addition, the servo magazine is much more versatile due to its superior controllability; and it […]

Mountaineering and outdoor products manufacturer, DMM Engineering, is reaping huge productivity rewards as a result of installing Chick workholding systems from 1st Machine Tool Accessories Ltd (1st MTA), Salisbury. The fast-acting vices, 24 in all plus five tombstones, have cut setting times by 70 to 80 per cent. This translates into a massive 30 to […]

Welsh firm DMM Engineering, which manufactures mountaineering and outdoor products, reports productivity increases of around 40 per cent on vertical machining centres (VMCs) at its Llanberis factory, following replacement of old rotary tables with new ones from Kitagawa. They were supplied in 2010 by sole agent, 1st MTA. The first Kitagawa MR160 indexer was installed […]

A pair of One-Lok vices from the US manufacturer, Chick, are boosting productivity at the Tiverton factory of Hepco Slide Systems, a leading manufacturer of linear motion systems. The company is currently using the vices to speed set-ups for production runs on a Hurco vertical machining centre. The workholding units are, however, easily transferrable to […]

The US manufacturer, Darex, has introduced a new, 4-axis CNC drill sharpener, designated XPS-16, capable of restoring high performance drills in a simple, one-touch operation. The heavy duty unit costs the equivalent of 100 radial split point carbide drills, yet even unskilled operators can sharpen more than 400 of them in a day. Return on […]