DMG MORI will be showcasing its complete range of manufacturing at the traditional DECKEL MAHO Pfronten Open House from Jan. 30 to Feb 3, 2018. Seventy high-tech machines will be on display, including the NTX 3000 as a world premiere and manufacturing processes such as additive manufacturing with a total of three complete process chains. With the DMG MORI Qualified Products (DMQP) the machine tool manufacturer offers perfectly matched peripherals and accessories for production and with VCS basic a new technology cycle is launches for volumetric compensation and automatic calibration.

Path of Digitization
The digital transformation in machine tool manufacturing will also be one of the key issues at event. Pursuing the Path of Digitization, the digital transformation follows a bottom-up strategy from the CELOS machine on to CELOS manufacturing and right through to the digital factory.

Digital factory
First presented at the EMO, digital workflows for data-supported production planning and automated tool management have meanwhile undergone fine tuning. They will be available for customers as CELOS apps as early as the first half of the year. Other digital focus topics include expansion of the monitoring possibilities for optimizing processes and production as well as the digital products and services. Embedded in the new manufacturer-neutral Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform ADAMOS, DMG MORI offers customers and suppliers integral and open end-to-end digitization solutions.

Solutions for the future
Automation solutions are gaining in importance in efficient manufacturing. DMG MORI supports this development by ensuring all machines from its diverse portfolio can be delivered from a single source.

“Our overall performance spectrum ranges from the planning and simulation and on right through to final hand over of the complete turnkey system,” explains Markus Rehm, managing director of DECKEL MAHO Seebach GmbH and DMG MORI HEITEC GmbH, a DMG MORI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT and HEITEC AG joint venture. The intelligent integration of the machine tool and automation takes place at the production locations of DMG MORI to ensure customers receive an integral automation concept from a single source.

Experience
At DECKEL MAHO Pfronten DMG MORI bundles its entire manufacturing competence in both the aerospace sector and the field of die & mold. In its respective DMG MORI Technology Excellence Centers the machine tool manufacturer offers its customers far more than just high-tech machines and performance. Experienced experts from DMG MORI are being involved in the future projects of customers at a very earlier stage. This means path-breaking production processes and complete turnkey solutions can be developed in close collaboration with the customers.

“As a full-service provider we supply the entire spectrum of required components with our machines – from the smallest electrodes in tool and mold construction right through to the XXL components needed in the aerospace industry,” emphasizes Markus Piber, managing director of DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH.

Three complete process chains
DMG MORI’s integral combination of laser deposition welding and machining, with the LASERTEC 3D hybrid series, is the basis on which DMG MORI has established itself as a full-liner in additive manufacturing, rounding off its portfolio. While the LASERTEC 65 3D serves to supplement an existing machine park of machining centers where it is used solely for laser deposition welding, the LASERTEC SLM series expands the range to include the powder bed method using selective laser melting.

LASERTEC SLM offers a high level of process reliability and efficiency. Its flexible powder module enables a powder changeover in less than two hours. With its CELOS SLM DMG MORI offers an integral software solution for CAM programming and machine control from a single source and with a uniform user interface. Thanks to the coordinated and uniform user interface components can be programmed and the data immediately transferred to the machine in the shortest possible time – regardless of the complexity of the parts.

DMQP
Measuring equipment, tool holders and handling systems are just three examples of peripheral products and devices from external suppliers with which DMG MORI rounds off its manufacturing solutions. These and other components are oriented on the high quality of CNC machines. The machine tool manufacturer uses the DMG MORI Qualified Products (DMQP) program to define its high demand on quality. Such criteria include internal certification of the products, their price consistency and the respective warranties.

NTX 3000
DMG MORI presents a new size in its high-performance turn mill centers with its NTX 3000. As is the case with its sister models, the core of this center is also the compactMASTER turn & mill spindle with a length of 350mm and a 122Nm torque. The main spindle with its 12" chuck offers a speed of 3,000rpm and a maximum torque of 1,194Nm. The direct drive B-axis enables efficient 5-axis simultaneous machining of complex workpieces, while the X-axis with a travel path of -125mm below the spindle center guarantees maximum flexibility. CELOS with MAPPS on FANUC and CELOS with SIEMENS are available as controls.

Dubois, Pennsylvania – Magnet Applications Inc., a leading provider of compression bonded magnets, injection molded magnets and magnetic assemblies to the medical, automotive, defense, and aerospace industries, has added two magnetic powder compaction presses and new self-contained state-of-the-art coating booth. These equipment additions strengthens the American company’s prominent position in magnet design and manufacturing.

“This significant financial investment in new equipment reflects Magnet Applications’ commitment to meeting any marketplace demands in magnets and magnetic assemblies,” comments Don Lindstrom, general manager, Magnet Applications Inc. “Thanks to multiple presses with a variety of tonnage capabilities , we can now design, manufacture and ship virtually any compression bonded, injection molded or custom fabricated magnet in one U.S.-based location, providing faster lead times and lower freight costs for our customers.

“Complementing the equipment, and making Magnet Applications a true Center of Excellence, is our in-house engineering, assembly and quality assurance teams all working in a Lean-based, ISO certified, ITAR registered manufacturing environment.”

The family-owned company also recently installed in-house coating booth which allows dust-free coating with a variety of epoxy coatings as well as other spray paints. The totally enclosed booth is equipped for single, rapid prototype orders, coating samples and evaluations as well as coating in production-level quantities.

“With the advancing use of magnets and magnetic assemblies in today’s automotive, aerospace, defense and medical designs, our customers need advanced magnetic options and customized solutions – quickly – to meet their engineering needs,” Lindstrom says. “We are finding that they are looking to build a more reliable, flexible, affordable U.S.-based supply chain. With our focus on equipment, people and processes, Magnet Applications is uniquely positioned to partner with any engineer or product designer to achieve their objective with a promise of excellence.”

Costa Mesa, California – West-Tech Materials is celebrating their 26th year in business. As explained by president and founder Rick Campo, “Business continues to grow in the medical device market requiring us to expand our sales and engineering resources.”

To support this growth, company officials have added Charlie Stromwall as a sales engineer covering Northern California as well as the Northwest States. In addition, Greg McKay, a seasoned medical device engineer, has joined WTM as the business development manager for medical products covering Southern California, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Stromwall and McKay will be supporting the engineering development and sales efforts for the world class manufacturers that West-Tech Materials represents including, Cirtec Medical, Laserage Technologies, Avicenna, TSE, MTD Micromolding, and Deringer Ney.

West-Tech Materials was founded by Rick Campo in 1992. Over the past 24 years, the company has focused on providing product and technology solutions to the electronics and medical device markets in the Western United States, with a focus in California. With the addition of the Stratesys Group in 2016, West-Tech Materials has two functioning business units, the Medical Products Division and the Electronics Assembly Division.

Chicago, Illinois – Hannover Messe USA, the newly branded North American industrial technology trade shows co-located at IMTS 2018, will feature 130,000 square feet of exhibition space and special display areas. This marks a 44% increase compared to the co-located shows’ total floor space at IMTS 2016. For the first time since the co-located shows launched at IMTS 2012, the exhibition space and three special display areas will be located on two floors of the East Building at McCormick Place, September 10-15, 2018. Hannover Messe USA is organized and managed by Hannover Fairs USA (HFUSA), the U.S. subsidiary of Deutsche Messe, organizer of Hannover Messe – the world’s leading trade show for industrial technology.

During IMTS 2018 on level three of the East Building, Hannover Messe USA’s Integrated Automation, Motion & Drives USA (IAMD USA), North America’s leading trade show for Integrated Automation, Industrial IT, Power Transmission and Control, will cover more exhibition space than ever before.  Located alongside IAMD USA on level three will be the Fluid Power special display area.

On level two, the other three Hannover Messe USA co-located trade shows - ComVac USA, Industrial Supply USA and Surface Technology USA – will take place alongside the event’s Digital Factory and Industrial Energy Systems special display areas. Both levels two and three will feature educational presentations on the show floor and in the special display areas. Corresponding educational conferences will again be featured at IMTS 2018, including the Integrated Automation, Motion & Drives (IAMD) conference organized by GIE Media Inc. and and HFUSA and the Global Automation Manufacturing Summit (GAMS), co-organized by CFE Media and HFUSA.

“As we have done since launching the industrial technology shows at IMTS 2012, Hannover Messe USA’s trade shows will leverage the power of the HANNOVER MESSE brand by demonstrating the full range of Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions during IMTS 2018,” says Larry Turner, president & CEO of HFUSA. “We also expect to extend the overall scope and global nature of the co-located shows this year by highlighting more exhibitors from around the world in our international pavilions, including China, Germany, Italy, Korea, and Taiwan,” added Turner.

Leading the Hannover Messe USA 2018 management team is Chicago-based Adrienne Zepeda, show manager of North American Industrial Technology Events at HFUSA, and Raymond Bianchi, vice president of events & business development at HFUSA. Supporting Zepeda and Bianchi is Alex Balis, audience development manager at HFUSA.

“Our entire HFUSA team is working extremely hard to make sure that our overall Hannover Messe USA event strategy aligns perfectly with our exhibitors’ goals and our attendees’ trade show expectations,” Turner adds.

“I am very excited to be a part of the launch of the world-renowned Hannover Messe brand to the North American advanced manufacturing space at IMTS 2018,” Zepeda says. “We are adding a number of very unique educational topics and displays on the floor this year, which certainly will enhance visitors overall experience.”