Category: CNC Metalworking & Manufacturing

The factory occupies an area equal to 7 football pitches, spread across 29 square miles at Alexandra Dock in the port city on the river Humber. The factory, a £310m investment by Siemens and Associated British Ports (ABP), manufactures 75m blades for 7MW and next generation 8MW turbines, supplying to offshore wind farms located off…

As Sandvik Coromant president, Blomqvist will be responsible for enhancing Sandvik Coromant’s leading position in manufacturing tools and machining solutions, and sharing the knowledge that drives the manufacturing industry forward. She has a solid background with Sandvik Coromant, having joined the company in 2003 as a research engineer. In her 17 years, she has held…

The Esprit CAM System, its flagship solution, supports any class of CNC machine via a common interface and workflow, delivering high performance CNC machine programming, optimisation and simulation for a broad range of applications. Well known for its machine-optimised, edit-free G-code (toolpath), Esprit leverages a digital twin simulation platform to model the finished part, tools…

With just a fortnight’s digital installation and planning, 94% of companies said they had staff working successfully from home in industries often associated with manual tasks and a high proportion of production-based work. Some 91% of those manufacturers benefitted from adopting new digital technologies during the crisis. And eight out of ten companies said they…

The STOPA – which serves machines such as a TRUMPF TruLaser 3030 Fiber, TRUMPF TruMatic 6000 laser/punch combination, TRUMPF TruPunch 5000 and TRUMPF TruBend Cell 7000 – houses more than 600 tonnes of raw material and part-processed items in a total of 207 available pallet spaces. The completion of the STOPA marks the culmination of…

Since they burst onto the scene in 2017, the team has employed innovative techniques to unlock incremental improvements on performance. This has earned it wins at two World Cups, Commonwealth Games medals and national titles. In 2021, four HUUB-Wattbike riders travel to South America, where it is hoped the reduction in air density from high…

The three software packages will reside within a a new holding company called Cambrio. Headed by Robbie Payne, current SigmaTEK Systems CEO and a veteran tech executive, Cambrio will leverage Cimatron and GibbsCAM to offer a diverse set of design and machining software solutions to “firmly position itself as a CADCAM innovator in the fabrication,…

“This is in line with our strategic focus to grow organically and through acquisitions in the digital manufacturing space, with special focus on software solutions close to machining,” says Stefan Widing, president and CEO of Sandvik. The combined machining expertise of Sandvik Coromant and CGTech will enhance the group’s capabilities in machining intelligence, strengthen the…

More than 30 young people have signed up to The Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME)’s pioneering BEng and MEng courses, which gives them access to the latest teaching expertise and access to a host of shopfloor projects and technologies. The joint collaboration between Coventry University and Unipart Manufacturing has pivoted the content of…