Tech Trends: WESTEC-Bound

For this week’s Tech Trends, we’re heading to the west coast! Below are products offered by companies that will be attending and exhibiting at WESTEC 2019, the leading manufacturing event in sunny California. This year’s event will not only be held in a new location (September 24-26; Long Beach Convention Center, CA), but will also include interactive Knowledge Bars, topical keynote addresses and informative product demonstrations by exhibitors.

Software Enhancements Increase Power and Improve Efficiency

CGTech’s Vericut 9.0 simulates real NC data on digital twin machines to prevent crashes, identify conflicts between setups and tooling, and ensure machined parts match engineering designs. Save time with instant access to viewing the workpiece, CNC machine or both. Improved connectivity to tooling websites and cloud repositories auto-configures Vericut for optimization. Use major functions in any view and easily switch between workpiece and machine views, layouts and docking arrangements.

Hybrid Vertical Machining Center Features Friction Stir Welding Capabilities

Mazak will spotlight the advanced capabilities of several of the company’s machines, including the VTC-300 FSW Hybrid multi-tasking vertical machining center that features friction stir welding (FSW) capabilities, at WESTEC 2019. The company will demonstrate how the vertical machining center combines subtractive multi-axis machining with FSW joining capabilities.

Video Measurement Systems Offer Increased Speed

The L.S. Starrett Co. introduces the latest generation of its HDV300 and HDV400 benchtop digital video comparators with impressive speed increases and improved illumination, design and convenience enhancements. CNC motion on the new HDV systems is faster, enabling even greater user measurement throughput.

Quality Management Software Features Intuitive Ballooning Interface

High QA’s Inspection Manager quality management software includes features for manufacturing operations, bulk updating, assemblies, job lifecycles, materials management and handling non-conformance issues and processes. The Inspection Manager quality management software includes one-click architecture to automatically extract GD&T requirements from 2D drawings and 3D models, digitizes the prints with automatic ballooning, creates inspection plan reports, stores all the information and measurement tools in a centralized database and so much more

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