Shane Herendeen has been promoted to fabrication division vice president of sales at MC Machinery Systems in Elk Grove Village, IL.
Herendeen began his 20-year career in the manufacturing industry as a sales engineer with a Midwest Mitsubishi Laser distributor, followed by running his own manufacturing consulting company for several years. He joined MC Machinery Systems in 2010 as national sales manager for fabrication and was promoted to North American sales manager in 2015.

German Machine Tools of America (GMTA) is now selling Profilator 300-V with linear drives in the North American market.
This modular machine platform used to cut gears, is equipped with one or two workpiece spindles in a compact design. It offers maximum flexibility due to modular design and is individually configurable for various machining processes (i.e. Scudding, hobbing, cycloidal milling, pointing, chamfering and deburring). State-of-the-art linear drives in the x and y axis, as well as a torque drive in the a axis offers high machine dynamics for short cycle times and maximum accuracy/low costs. High machine rigidity is available for Hard Scudding of inner and outer diameters. 

Wintriss Controls Group, a leading manufacturer of press automation, die protection, and safety controls for the metal stamping industry, and OEE/ data collection software for all discrete manufacturing, has promoted Barry Erlandson to National Sales Manager.  

PBC Linear (Pacific Bearing Company), a global leader in linear motion solutions, is pleased to announce that it will demonstrate deeper CNC integration for its Applied Cobotics Cobot Feeder at FABTECH 2023, in the Universal Robots (UR) Booth #B17063 in Chicago, September 11-14.

Liebherr offered visitors the opportunity to experience a wide range of innovative products during Automatica 2023 in Munich. One of the main attractions was the Cobot Cell, a functional and reliable application that enables customers to realize bin picking.

Production solutions with robotic automation are on the rise: With their help, a fast and low-manpower flow of parts can be established within a site—thus reducing unit production costs and increasing production reliability and quality. In this example, EMAG links pick-up machine technology with highly individual robot solutions designed within the requirements of the workpiece and the production process. What are the important details?

Automate 2023 in Detroit featured 757+ exhibits with 30,000+ registrants. The success of the 2022 and 2023 events prompted A3 to continue the show as an annual event moving forward. Historically, the show was biennial until the pandemic changed scheduling.  

The closed-loop concept has become widespread in recent years, especially in relation to the Industry 4.0 concept. The term “closed loop” will be used herein to refer to the pairing of specifications and checking (Figure 1) which all ISO standards, starting with ISO 1, the “mother” of all standards, use in relation to GPS (Geometrical Product Specifications).

It’s little wonder there’s more and more interest in the potential of lights-out or unattended production. The benefits seem immediately obvious. Staffing costs fall significantly if you can run equipment unsupervised, or with far fewer operators. Production capacity of the business greatly increases, offering the opportunity to add more customers without the expense of adding new equipment or staff.

TIMTOS 2023 concluded successfully today, attracting over 45,000 on-site visitors from home and abroad, including nearly 6,000 international visitors from more than 100 countries. Among them, delegations were from Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Spain, and Algeria. The top five countries with the highest turnout were Japan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, and Thailand. The online exhibition will continue to run until April 6 and has already reached 7,000 visitors from nearly 15 countries.