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Latest universal turning and mill/turning machines offer up to 25% performance improvement, when compared with the last generation, while work area visibility has been improved
Gildemeister said that its ‘fifth generation’ CTX Series of CNC universal turning and mill-turn machines offer up to a 25% improvement in performance. Also an ultra-modern enclosure design provides up to [...]

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For the complete machining of small parts, in batches of 50 to 5,000-off, a high performance, competitively priced universal lathe has a Y-axis and a sub-spindle
Emco in Austria said about its Maxxturn 25 high-performance universal lathe that it is the first time that such a compact machine has been equipped with a Y-axis and a [...]

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Builder of medium to heavy duty CNC milling/boring machines, Unisign, reported more than double the number of enquiries from EMO 2007, when compared with th 2006 show
Builder of medium to heavy duty CNC milling/boring machines, Unisign in The Netherlands, reported The EMO 2007 had exceeded all of its expectations and that not only was the [...]

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UK - At EMO 2007, the Japanese machine tool manufacturer, Okuma, introduced a new way of turning tapered bores and outside diameters using its horizontal machining centers, which are available in the UK through NCMT.
Called turn-cutting, the patented technique is in contrast to the established process of revolving a component on the rotary table of [...]

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CAD (Computer-aided design)
Geometry authoring tool that involves software and sometimes special-purpose hardware. Current packages range from 2D vector based drafting systems to 3D solid and surface modellers.

CAM (Computer-aided manufacturing)
Considered as an NC programming tool wherein 3D models of components generated in CAD software are used to generate CNC code to drive numerical controlled machine [...]

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