TCD (Total Cost of Design) and TCM (Total Cost of Manufacturing) are essential factors in maintaining a leading position in high-demand and competitive machine-tool markets worldwide. With one eye on the costs and the other on performance level, most of the machine-tool leaders have switched to the cubic concept, invented and developed by REDEX to enhance axis-drive global solutions.
With its global 3i modernization program, REDEX has transformed its Senonches plant into a state-of-the-art center of gear excellence. As a result, REDEX is now offering aeronautical and motor racing quality gears as a standard in its axis drives to machine tool OEMs.
Since mid-April, EPLAN has been an official Siemens PLM Solution Partner. The aim of the partnership is to offer an interface between two market-leading systems - EPLAN and Teamcenter. This integration closes a loophole in the PLM process through the configuration data for the EPLAN Platform can now be processed in Teamcenter. Companies from different industries can benefit from this integrated approach which forms part of a consistent product creation process. "The new Teamcenter integration opens up lots of doors for us in the growing PLM solutions market," reports Maximilian Brandl, Chairman of the Executive Board of EPLAN.
Icon Polymer Group, a technology company in engineered polymer products, has further confirmed its status as a key partner to the global aerospace and defence sector by hosting a group of senior sector decision makers at its global headquarters in Retford, UK.
This innovative solution offers higher accuracy, stability, speed and ease-of-use compared to the previous generation of LS-7000 Series micrometers that are part of Keyence's flagship products
For the past few years, Renault's site in Cléon, France, has been using Keyence's LJ-G laser displacement sensors on its G9 engine production line. The site chose the sensors for their detection reliability and ease of use.
KEYENCE CORPORTATION OF AMERICA adds a new fixed mount 1D and 2D barcode reader to their company line up of Auto ID products. The SR-750 Series incorporates new and advanced decoding algorithms, providing the best in class reading capability.