Diamond tools are a specialty of the ROT company — Reiner Oehlmann Tools from the Lower Saxon town of Celle, Germany — especially for industrial grinding tasks. In addition to extremely high precision with tolerances of just a few micrometers, completing batches of just a single tool is a major challenge — especially in light of the market’s demand for a good price/performance ratio.

A modern aircraft is a highly complex machine. The safety of passengers as well as the reliability and cost-effectiveness of an airline's flying operations depends on error-free functioning of the parts and perfect interactions. This is based on state-of-the-art technology on board - and behind the scenes. It must also enable maximum possible flexibility in the "manufacturing" unit of "VIP and Governance”. The spectrum of parts is considerable, customer wishes are extremely individual and…

VAT, an internationally operating Swiss company and market leader in vacuum valves for the semiconductor and vacuum coating industry, has been manufacturing in accordance with the zero defect principle for years. This requires unconditional quality - across the entire value chain. And makes ZOLLER a valued partner with its technologically leading, one hundred percent reli able and highly accurate presetting and measuring machines.

Optimization of set-up times and tool life are objectives in any manufacturing operation. This usually focuses on machines, less often on lacking organization of tools. The GMN Paul Müller Industrie GmbH & Co. KG in Nuremberg, Germany, has created order in its tool management by introducing a ZOLLER solution, consisting of a tool presetter machine and the TMS Tool Management Solutions, a solution which has paid off: search times and corresponding longer machine operating times have been reduced,…

Rohde & Schwarz Teisnach (Germany), since 1969 part of Manufacturing Service of Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG, manufactures a truly diverse spectrum of parts at its facility in the Bavarian Forest. Besides manufacturing for the parent company, the factory also serves as service partner for the contract manufacturing of mechanical and electrical components. ZOLLER is present with a total of eight presetting and measuring machines in the areas of tool and mold making, the manufacturing of…

Cummins engineers saw that valuable production time could be saved by investing in ZOLLER tool presetting and heat shrinking technology. Avoiding tool setting on-machine saves about 5 minutes per tool, engineers estimated. Typically 6 tools a day are changed on each machine, which means comes to a half-hour production saved per machine per day. Cummins estimates it is achieving about 20% greater efficiency in production, thanks to the ZOLLER off-line presetting. The plant now changes its…

Components in medtech applications are becoming ever more intricate and delicate while production tolerances continue to contract. Quite apart from that, materials finding use in medtech are difficult to machine in production, requiring a particular level of expertise. Despite these mounting challenges, medical device producer Synthes market leader in the fields of osteosynthesis and maxillary and spinal surgery has succeeded in appreciably stepping up both productivity and quality. Special…

Making precision carbide cutters for the aerospace industry means that Carbro Corp., Lawndale, CA, must be very responsive to large and small orders with very high quality, long-life cutting tools — mills, reamers, routers, countersinks, and more.

Creating the future of manufacturing

If you’re skeptical of the future of North American metalworking manufacturing, make a visit to the Earl W. Brinkman Manufacturing and Machine Tools Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. It is here that a state of the art machine shop operates to teach future degreed engineers the essentials of materials processing using the Okuma THINC interface.