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IIT Bombay is organising a 3 day Workshop on " LOW COST HI-TECH AUTOMATION " during July 8 - 10, 2004. Know more about the workshop by CLICKING HERE. We look forward to meet you during this workshop.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Workshop On

LOW COST HI-TECH AUTOMATION

Date : July 08 - 10, 2004
VENUE : Seminar Hall, Guest House, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076.

Click here for Details of the Programme and Registration Procedures.

MACHINE TOOLS

CNC capability at a surprisingly affordable price.

The V-CNC is fitted as standard with a highly specified, customized CNC control, designed with the operator in mind to provide a user-friendly interface to both first-time and experienced CNC users. Many intuitive functions have been designed into the control to place the power at the operator's fingertips, saving time and money in training costs.

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Designed specifically for mold makers

Designed specifically for mold makers, the VM-3 features the Haas 12,000-rpm, inline direct-drive spindle, a unique 40-taper design that provides superior surface finishes, excellent thermal stability and quiet operation. The VM-3 comes standard with a very long list of features, including high-speed machining software, Haas Visual Quick Code programming, rotation and scaling, user-definable macros and programmable coolant.

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Center Of Gravity Is Key To Reduced Vibration

The metalworking industry’s keen interest in high speed, high accuracy machining during the last decade has focused attention on one topic in particular—vibration.

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CUTTING TOOLS

Superior quality indexable end mills

The Sumitomo “Wave Series” is just one of the many new lines of tooling Sumitomo has to offer. WEM, WRM and WMM are superior quality indexable end mills that yield high production rates and long tool life.

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The NEW KUB Centron™ drill line

The NEW KUB Centron™ drill line continues the long and successful era of KOMET V46/V47 drills for bore depth up to 9 X diameter. The KOMET GROUP, with specialists in demanding bore machining and internal machining have now completely revised this product family.

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CAD/CAM

Productivity rises dramatically for Reading Bakery Systems

In 2003, Reading Bakery Systems replaced AutoCAD with Solid Edge.The company's management does a good job of tracking engineering productivity and has been able to document a huge productivity increase since switching to the new software.

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What's new in EZ-MILL / EZ-TURN Release 14

The sections in the Link are intended to provide an overview of the most important improvements integrated in our latest release of the MILL and TURN modules.

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ACCESSORIES

Quick Change Workholding for Hard-to-Hold Parts

After finding a CNC machine that could handle his machining requirements, a Mori Seiki 21-3, Mr. Van Hiel found he needed something "extra" when it came to his workholding needs. To meet these "extra" workholding needs, he decided to try the Rohm KFD-HS-type power chuck

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Sinumerik 810 D : Designed for cost-optimized machine tools.

Compact CNC path control for series machine tools for drilling, turning and milling with an integrated high-performance SIMATIC S7 PLC, 5 integrated digital SIMODRIVE 611 drive controls and 3 SIMODRIVE 611 power sections.

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METROLOGY

New MCV 500 Laser Caliberation System enables pitch and yaw angular error measurement

The economical MCV 500 now measures 18 possible errors, including six angular errors, three linear displacement errors, six straightness errors and three squareness errors. Existing MCV 500’s can be upgraded with the pitch and yaw angular error measurement feature.

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Digimatic Height Gages

A digital display and double-column structure ensure stable scribing work and measurement. Two measurement modes are included: ABS and INC

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COMMUNITY OF CNC PROFESSIONALS
Avail the opportunity of interacting with CNC Professionals in respective fields. Address your queries to editor@cnctimes.com
Mr. Ashish Potdar	Managing Partner of Ask Me Software Systems will address issues on CAD/CAM.
Mr. P. K. Ganguly	Managing Director, Techlink Machine Tools Pvt. Ltd. will address issues on EDM and WEDM Technology.
Mr. A. Venkatesan	Hindustan Motors Ltd. will address issues on CNC Maintenance.
Mr. Makarand Kulkarni	Asst. Manager, Kirlosekar Copeland Ltd. will address issues on CNC Training and CNC Machining problems.
Mr. Anant Tikone	Managing Director, Antech Microsystems Pvt. Ltd. will address issues on DNC Software and installations technology.
Mr. J.B. Kodikal	Proprietor, Matchless Machines & Technology, will address issues on CNC Tool Grinding and Gears Hard Finishing technology.
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