>THIS ISSUE Editor’s comment VOLUME 14 ISSUE 166
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Editorial 1st MTA
Bowers Metrology Brown and Holmes
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AMB 7 AMT
Delcam 7 DMG UK
15
Edgecam 22 GTMA
9
Heller 5 Hone-All 8 Horn Cutting Tools IMTS
17 11
Iscar 18 Jemtech 6 Kennametal 20 LMT
Mapal 6 Matsuura 12 Mid-Bucks Machine Tools Mills CNC MM Live
Advertisers
AMB 6 Apperley Honing Arthur Sanders
Bott 19 Carlton Laser CG Tech
24 6
7 16
CMZ 11 Coventry Engineering
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Cranden 21 Fuchs 22 Haas 4 Hoffmann Group
Hone All
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Hurco 5 Iscar 17 J&L
Leading Edge
Micron Workholding Mori Seiki
Perfect Bore
28 13 20 23 24
Rotatech 15 TBT
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26 25
Unimerco 9 WDS 18 XYZ 2
7 8 9
10 5 6
Mollart 25 Mori Seiki
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Ondrives 5 Perfect Bore Phase Vision
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Renishaw 6 Roemheld 19 Sandvik Coromant Seco Tools
SGS Carbide Tool 16
SKF 8 StarragHeckert
14 17
Taegutec 19 TBT
Victor Europe Walter GB WNT
XYZ Machine Tools
24 12 20 20 15
Hole Drilling Ace in the hole Far and wide
Diary Dates
September 2010 IMTS
13 - 18 September 2010 Chicago
GTMA: ‘Make Measurement Matter’ Roadshow 15 September 2010 Warwick University
Aero Engineering/ Composites Engineering 29 - 30 September 2010 NEC, Birmingham
October 2010 MM Live
19 - 20 October 2010
Ricoh, Coventry
BI-MU
6 - 9 October 2010 Milan
JIMTOF
28 October - 2 November 2010 Tokyo
Production Engineering Solutions • August 2010 3 23Honing & Deep
25 8
Premier 21, 24 R&D Tax and Grants
26 7
21Offshore Black gold
Make the connection
Workholding Dry run In the rough
17 Tooling &
For my comment this month, I’m going to unashamedly give a plug to the Aero Engineering/Composites Engineering show taking place at the NEC Birmingham from 29-30 September 2010.
Apart from the fact that the co-hosted events will be of significant interest to any company actively involved in the two sectors, I would like to bring to everyone’s attention that as part of Aero Engineering’s ‘Open Technology Forums’ Solutions will be hosting a presentation made by tooling specialist Unimerco entitled: ‘The economic benefits of custom-designed tooling’.
Having met with Unimerco’s managing director Nigel Souster on a number of occasions it’s plain to see that the company’s approach to business is somewhat different from the norm. Yes, it does offer a wide range of high quality standard and customised tooling and its Re·New service claims to restore worn tools to ‘better than new’ condition, but Unimerco’s entire business model is centred around saving its customers money so there’s less emphasis on products and more on productivity and optimisation. Nigel firmly believes that companies in general don’t put enough importance on tooling and how it can impact profit margins. He advocates that for companies with the right profile, Unimerco can make minimum cost savings of 30% a reality and he’s even prepared to carry out initial trials free of charge to prove it! Unimerco has many clients in the aerospace sector so this presentation will be of particular interest to audiences at Aero Engineering 2010. Pop along and take a look. It will take place on Wednesday 29th September 2010 from 12.10pm through to 12.50pm and we’ll be running a question and answer session afterwards.
The presentation forms part of a wider programme taking place on both days of the shows where a number of top quality guest speakers will be discussing all the hot topics of the day. Full details are available at
www.aeroconf.com and
www.compositesexhibition.com.
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16Composite Manufacturing Competitive in composites
Machining Programming ease Economic investment
15 Cost-Effective Contents
5News The sky’s the limit Engineering regeneration
Manufacturing Report The American view
10USA
11IMTS Preview IMTS 2010 aims to inspire
12Machining Happy New Year
Steady progress
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