DMG America Inc.

DMG / Mori Seiki USA has announced that this year’s Innovation Days will take place at the company’s headquarters and Chicago Technical Center May 24-26.Innovation Days 2010 marks the first joint event organized by DMG / Mori Seiki USA under the partnership that began last month.

Machine tool manufacturers DMG and Mori Seiki will join forces in the United States.

 The DMF 260 linear from DMG now offers a 3,150-ipm rapid traverse, 15. 7" longer Y path and 7.9" more space in the Z direction, compared to the smaller machine. All of the moving-column machining centers in the series are suited for aerospace applications and machine construction as well as tool making and mold production.

 Sauer’s Ultrasonic 10 from DMG is a compact, five-axis machine designed for dental indications in soft plastics, demanding metals and high-strength zircon oxide materials.

Japanese machine tool builder Mori Seiki has signed a distributorship agreement with German machine tool manufacturer Gildemeister AG (DMG) for sales and service activities in Japan. Under the agreement, Mori Seiki will take responsibility for sales and service of all Mori and DMG products in Japan.

The DMU 50 and DMU 70 CNC five-axis milling machines from DMG are suited for milling single parts and small series—from simple to highly complex workpieces. Highlights include digital drives in all axes, a rapid traverse rate ranging to 944.9 ipm and a motor spindle with speeds ranging to 18,000 rpm. 

DMG’s CNC universal milling machine, the DMU 50 eco, is designed for high precision and reliability in workshop, training and laboratory settings, as well as for tool, fixture and mold construction applications. With its sturdy cross-slide construction and large, easily accessible machining compartment, the machine is suited for both one-off production and efficient manufacture of small lots, the company says.

DMG offers the Microset VIO Linear, the company’s first series of tool presetting units with linear drives for presetting of drilling, milling and turning tools. The direct drives in the X and Z axes provide repeatable accuracy of about ±1 micron, the company says.

A change in focus to lower-volume jobs led this manufacturer to sell its multi-axis screw machine and seek a new, flexible process to avoid tying up its traditional mills and lathes. DMG’s CTX 310ECO V3 turn-mill has helped the shop improve productivity and part quality while reducing labor costs.

Machine tool builders Mori Seiki (Nagoya, Japan) and Gildemeister AG (Bielefeld, Germany) have signed a cooperation agreement to promote global business activities. The agreement covers production, purchasing, machine development, and sales and services in selected markets. In particular, the companies plan to control costs by leveraging their joint procurement and purchasing power on a global basis.

DMG America will conduct a 4-day open house from April 21 to 24 at its Chicago Technology Center in Itasca, Illinois, located just west of the city near O’Hare airport. The center is the company’s North American headquarters and houses an 11,500-square-foot showroom as well as 130 sales, customer service, application engineering, technical support and corporate management personnel. From 9 a.

DMG’s CTX beta TC and CTX gamma TC series turn/mill centers feature an integrated, moving column with a turning/milling spindle and an interpolating B axis. The machines are capable of turning workpieces ranging from 49. 2" to 78.

This Atlanta shop succeeded at becoming an aircraft-industry parts supplier. The lessons of its success have a lot to do with commitment and enthusiasm.

Machine tool builder DMG American has opened a new Technology Center in Cypress, California, in the greater Los Angeles area. According to the company, the new facility is a demonstration of its commitment to better serve the West Coast aerospace, medical and general machining market at all levels and with more equipment diversity. Hundreds of visitors from local job shops and OEMs attended the grand opening ceremony in late October.

An addition to the company’s Ecoline series of fully featured CNC machine tools designed for job shop use, the DMC H Eco is a compact HMC with X-, Y- and Z-axis travels of 22.1" × 23.6" × 23.6"; a 26.8-hp main drive; spindle speeds to 18,000 rpm; rapid traverse to 1,970 ipm; CAT 40 tooling; a 45-position tool magaz

 DMG America recently opened an 11,500-square-foot technical center and showroom in Itasca, Illinois. The facility offers a chance for visitors to see the company's various milling, turning, ultrasonic and laser machining equipment in action. Featuring 15 machines, the facility offers demonstrations of the company'

As revealed at EMO 2007, DMG’s line of machine tools has a new look which strengthens the corporate identity of the product line while giving each brand distinctive design elements that differentiate it. The look is part of a “New Design” concept that the company says is based on the interaction among functionality, ergonomics and form. Significantly, a number of elements in the new design reflect attention to the role of the operator, thus indicating that the operator’s role is very important in overall machine tool productivity.

A user of ultrasonic machining looks for parts that are too hard to cut on other machine tools.

Magnus Precision has developed a niche cutting high-volume precision parts in tough materials such as titanium using five-axis machining.

An Ohio shop uses inverted-spindle machines to improve production of a high-volume part.

Mold maker A.F. Gaskin (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) has customers who operate in fiercely competitive international markets, including Formula 1, and measure performance on the ability to deliver quality products in the shortest possible time.

Toronto aerospace shops improve productivity with faster five-axis machining centers.

Unlike applications in medicine, inspection and parts cleaning where ultrasonic (high frequency sound) waves are applied directly, ultrasonic machining is a metalcutting process that is facilitated by ultrasonic technology.

High speed milling let this automotive forging company reverse a decades-old practice and bring die making back in house.

The DML 40 and the DMU 60L, sister 100W YAG laser cutting machines made by DMG America Inc., could be the first shot in a battle between lasers and ram-type EDM machines for die and mold machining applications.

Different machines offer different approaches to rotary travel, and each design has its own strengths. Here's how they compare.

The names Deckel and Maho have long ranked among Europe's principal players in milling machines and machining centers. Those names have been put together to form a single company, which in America is known as DMG America.

Linear motors take the place of ballscrews on this machine performing high speed cutting of aluminum at a job shop near Atlanta.