YCM has expanded its TC series of high-performance, high-precision CNC lathes. The user-friendly TC-16 is said to feature a high cost-performance index and is designed for sectors including automotive, electronics and general job shops.   Features include a large through-hole spindle design w

The Haas DS-30 series dual-spindle turning center can turn both ends of a part in a single setup to minimize part handling, increase throughput and reduce work in process. The opposed spindles offer fully synchronized turning for clean part-off, and enable on-the-fly part pass-off to reduce cycle ti

ZPS America’s  ZPS 642 CNC multispindle production center features a double Siemens 840 D CNC and as many as 72 CNC axes, which can perform a variety of operations on precision parts either as bar-fed or chucker operation. Machining applications range from drilling and tapping to milling,

Not many manufacturing companies can say that one of the founders is a well-known movie star. CINC Industries of Carson City, Nevada, can. Kevin Costner, of Hollywood fame, helped get this company started in 1983. However, the company would rather talk about the vital role its products share in resp

Jeff Estes, director of Partners in THINC, the Okuma-founded manufacturing solutions group, says that machining facilities today are more interested than ever in unattended capacity. They are coming to Okuma and its partners in search of equipment and procedures able to provide lights-out machining.

Hurco’s TM18L is a true slant-bed lathe with a maximum cutting length of 79.4" (approximately 2 m) to accommodate longer stock for the energy and mining industries. The 15-ton turning center is designed to handle heavy stock without vibration or chatter, the company says. The steady rest

ZPS America offers a cam-driven, six-spindle automatic lathe with a 20-mm bar capacity. The rigid machine is designed for continuous or series production of precision-turned parts. A solid base casting ensures maximum rigidity and stability, the company says. The ZPS line of cam-driven multis

Mazak’s slant-turn Nexus 550M CNC turning center is designed for large parts such as oil field pipes, pipeline control valves, turbine wheels, aircraft and off-road parts. It is also suited for the production of power-generating components for the aerospace, oil, gas, coal and nuclear industri

Doosan’s Lynx 220, a family of five turning centers, features chucks ranging from 6.5" to 8.25", including the Lynx 220G with an extra long, 17.7" X-axis travel and the Lynx 220LM with live tooling. Each is equipped with a 20-hp spindle motor.   A 30-degree slant-bed main

Emco’s Hyperturn 45 universal turning center features two high-performance spindles, two tool turrets and a Y axis. Designed to handle challenging production requirements, compact dimensions and high static and dynamic rigidity enable the machine to produce medium to large quantities of precis

Emag’s vertical turning and grinding centers—VSC 250 DS, VSC 400 DS and VSC 400 DDS—are said to combine the advantages of vertical hard turning and grinding in a single machine. Combining these technologies in a single setup shortens the process stream and is useful for quality req

 The Megaturn Nexus 900 is a new generation CNC vertical turning center that is suited for heavy-duty cutting of large cast iron and steel workpieces found in the construction machinery, industrial machinery and jet engine industries. The turning center features a maximum workpiece size me

Absolute Machine Tools offers the Tongtai TNL-100TLSB subspindle, live-tool, bar-package turning center. The machine features a rigid and accessible one-piece, 90-degree, vertical bed casting. The vertical design of the saddle enables chips to drop directly to the chip conveyor. The vertical saddle

Loading the player ... Autonetics of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a manufacturing automation specialist, but chief technology officer Chris Wezyk says the specialty is more nuanced than that. The company solves automation challenges by combining off-the-shelf

Fuji’s CSD-300 parallel-spindle lathe is designed to maximize material handling from a compact footprint. To secure parts with diameters measuring 200 × 100 mm and weighing 5kg + 5kg, the lathe features a hydraulic clamping loader and 8" to 10" capacity workholding chucks. A ha

Energy Dynamics could have bought a new lathe. It bought a robot instead. The contract shop in Machesney Park, Illinois runs a family of parts for a hydraulic-power application on a lathe that is largely dedicated to this work. A faster lathe might have improved the efficiency of this operation. The

The Haas ST-30 turning center is designed for rigidity, accuracy and thermal stability. All castings are optimized using finite element analysis (FEA) to produce rigid designs, improve chip and coolant flow and simplify maintenance and service, the company says. The spindle head features a compact,

  One thing that used to keep Ferrell Ramey up at night was a decades-old cassette recorder. The recorder provided the only way to store and load programs on the control of a vertical turning center (VTC) that would cost more than $700,000 to replace. The machine itself could likely provide st

In 2008, family-owned machine shop Leaf Technology took an order for 12- by 14-foot shafts from a long-time customer in the mining industry. At the time, none of the company’s machines could accommodate work of that size, leading it to shop around for a larger, longer-bed CNC lathe. However, t

When Houston Oilfield Equipment brought its first FEMCO CNC lathe online in 2001, few would’ve guessed it would be the first in a long line of machines purchased from the Garden Grove, California-based supplier. By that point, the company had tried three different machine tool brands, none of