Tech Zones

How To Get An Edge On Competition: Waterjet systems can create unique opportunities to grow your business, regardless of whether times are good or bad.

This North Carolina plant obsoleted conventional G-code by installing an entirely new CNC on all their machine tools and metal forming equipment.

While waiting for the credit freeze to thaw, Karim Solanji and Mark Lauber of Paradigm Partners reveal how your company can retrieve tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands in cash back from the IRS using an underutilized tax credit.

Antonio Rotunno of Prima North America explains how the growing demand for hot-formed parts in the automotive industry has positioned the multi-axis laser as a viable process for matching volumes.

Robert Kloczkowski of Rofin-Sinar examines how to replace fast axial flow resonators with new generation, high performance diffusion-cooled units, a proven strategy for older cutting machines.

Trumpf enhanced its TruBend Series 5000 precision press brakes further to improve productivity and efficiency in bending. These enhancements include a new visual setup and positioning aid and the new Mobile Control.

RoboCell is an affordable robotic bending cell from LVD Strippit that is capable of robotized bending as well as stand alone operation.

The CE40MR3 angle roll from Ercolina can bend a wide range of tube, pipe and profiles to a CLR as small as 4X diameter of the work piece.

The Nibbler N500-8 from Trumpf Inc. cuts in all four cutting directions and cuts steel sheets up to 0.197 in thick. Reverse cutting is easy to do with the N500-8.

The 5014 TM Ironworker from Scotchman® Industries has a three-station revolving turret unlike any other Scotchman machine.