interface, and also very easy to set up. Commissioning is made easier with a ready-to-run PLC program. “This is as close to plug-and-play as you’re going to get out of the box,” notes Randy Pearson, manager, end-user support, Siemens Industry Inc.
Engines Inc. (Glen Ellyn, IL). Displacing 6.09 in.³ (99.8 cm³), the engine actually runs and is for sale in normally aspirated and supercharged forms.
Conley estimates the base version will produce 5.5 hp (4.1 kW) and the supercharged model will hit 9 hp (6.7 kW). While these numbers themselves aren’t impressive, hold them to the standards of their full-size brothers—output per liter—and they aren’t too shabby. The normally aspirated unit cranks out 55.11 hp/L (41 kW/L) and its blown big brother produces 90.2 hp/L (67 kW/L). By comparison, the base 2.5-L engine in the 2012 Toyota Camry, America’s best-selling car, generates 71.4 hp/L (53.2 kW/L).
Gary Conley uses Sunnen honing equipment to produce his mighty midgets.
Faster CAM Rendering
New Siemens 808D entry-level control targets high-volume three-axis machine tool applications.
The control features the embedded Linux operating system, making it stable and free from virus issues, Pearson adds. Standard features are a 7.5" LCD color screen with 640 × 480 resolution, selectable function keyboard, and rotary dials for speed and spindle override.
Honing in on a ‘Mighty Midget’
Sunnen Products Co. (St. Louis) displayed the petite but powerful Stinger 609 V8 engine produced by Conley Precision
With the new GibbsCAM 2012+ package, Gibbs and Associates (Moorpark, CA) has included a Multi-Axis Ren- dering option free with each seat of the software. Formerly a $2000 option, the rendering system is said to boost rendering speeds up to 33 times faster and provide significant accuracy improvements for rotary milling applications, especially when displaying toolpaths with continuous changes in both tool position and orientation.
Parts requiring simultaneous five-axis toolpaths, such as finishing the blades on this blisk, can be rendered more accurately using the new Multi-Axis Rendering option included in GibbsCAM 2012+ software.
Improved gouge and tool interference checking for tilt- ing tools shows customers programming errors before they become costly mistakes on the shop floor. “We are pleased to be able to offer our customers such a valuable option free of charge,” said Bill Gibbs, president and CEO of Gibbs and Associates and Cimatron North America. “A picture may