Toolmaking
TTP Plastics by Design Toolroom Division specialises in the production of larger plastic injection moulds to suit our substantial moulding facility. These are built for both their own proprietary products and under contract for other companies for which they undertake injection moulding. Additionally, they do some repetition work on our CNC Lathes and Machining Centres.

Tool Construction
The facility is sited alongside their Plastic Moulding Department allowing for a one stop shop approach delivering a client’s concept right through to reality. This has given them a wealth of experience in all facets of production, allowing their skilled team to value add to their customer’s products while minimising delays due to modifications or breakdowns.

TTP Plastics welcome all enquiries to do with Plastic Moulding whether it is rotational, extrusion or blow moulding as TTP have a wide amount of experience in most moulding processes.

Using the benefits of a state of the art CAD/CAM system, TTP Plastics are able to enhance all tool and product design. They are committed to achieving the best possible outcome for their clients. TTP Plastics by Design has active interest in a range of areas such as:

• Aquaculture
• Furniture
• Materials Handling
• Mining
• Water
• Infrastructure and Construction
• Agriculture

TTP Plastics maintain an ISO9001 Quality System and are a partner in ECOBiz a Queensland government initiative to foster more sustainable business practices

Other Products from TTP Plastics by Design

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RONSON Gears has invested in a new gear shaping machine, the Fellows FS630-200 CNC Hydrostroke Internal Gear Shaper.

Ronson Gears says the Fellows FS630-200 CNC Hydrostroke Internal Gear Shaper can cut internal gears up to 650mm in diameter, external gears to 635mm diameter with up to 200mm face width.According to Ronson Gears, the hydrostroke system offers rapid stroking return rations up to 4:1 for optimum production and efficiency.

The company claims the system’s rigid construction and hydromechanical stroking allows cutting forces concentric to the cutter spindle, resulting in minimum power loss and optimum cutting stroke accuracy.

The FS630-200 CNC Hydrostroke Internal Gear Shaper is combined with a Siemens 840D CNC system.Ronson says the new technology can produce gears with better profile accuracy and surface finishes compared to older shaping machines which lead to a longer gear life.The hydrostroke system is suited to all batch sizes and work pieces can be loaded manually or with flexible automation systems.

http://www.motorsdrives.com.au/article/ronson-gears-invests-in-new-gear-shaping-machine/503893.aspx

Adjustable or fixed pattern multiple spindle
drilling heads with the correct adapters at a very affordable price
with short delivery times can be easily mated to CNC machine tools.

Adjustable
or fixed pattern multiple spindle drilling heads with the correct
adapters at a very affordable price with short delivery times can be
easily mated to CNC machine tools.

CNC machines are popular in many operations.

In most cases, these machines have sufficient horsepower to handle the extra load of drilling multiple holes simultaneously.

Multiple spindle heads from AutoDrill are now easily mated to these machines.

AutoDrill
can provide adjustable or fixed pattern heads with the correct adapters
at a very affordable price with short delivery times.

Custom multi-drill heads and adapters made for your pattern and equipment can generally be shipped in three to four weeks.

In
addition, information for conventional drilling machines such as drill
presses (drilling machines), mill-drills, vertical mills and tapping
machines have been accumulated by AutoDrill.

With
this database of information, they can provide a prompt quotation for
both the multiple spindle drilling head and the adapter.

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MasterControls Inc (MCI) has announced the use of NUM CNC’s circuit boards to retrofit a Gleason 782 gear hobber and continue precision engineering duties long after the original controls became impractical and unreliable.

Jeff Petry, the president of MCI, explained that the organisation selected NUM breakout boards in the new sub-panel to make it easy to restore the machine at a fraction of the cost of replacing the CNC machine tool, which creates a large customer base for the organisation.

He said: “In fact, much to our customer’s satisfaction, we were able to remove all the obsolete control hardware and complete the wiring stages of the installation - including the sub-panel, CNC control, new operator’s panel and the magnetic cabinet - in just over three days.”

Mr Petry added that the overall result was very clean, making it much easier for future maintenance as well.

Earlier this month, NUMcut displayed its toolhead designs at the EMO show in Milan, which promoted the latest advancements in CNC lathes, milling machines and turning centres.

http://www.machinetooldirect.co.uk/machine-tool-news/NUM-CNC-helps-restore-Gleason-gear-hobber-2009-10-.asp

Mills CNC claims over 50 per cent of the UK’s large lathe market (chuck size 12″ and over), 50 per cent of the large VTL (Vertical Turning Lathe) market and significant market share in the large horizontal machining centre and horizontal borer markets.

The company is the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for Doosan machine tools, and highlights that the portfolio has recently been broadened with the launch of a new range of 5-face, double-column machining centres, DCM, within which there are eight different sized.

The new DCM machines, with up to 10, 250 by 4,200 by 700, by 1,100 mm in X, Y, Z and W, can parts up to 68,000 kg in weight.

Depending on the type of application, DCM machines can be specified with various ram spindle configurations (heavy-duty cutting through to high-speed/high-torque options); different head attachments and table types.

“The Doosan big machine tool range is impressive – and the new DCM machines are no exception,” underlines Nick Frampton, Mills CNC’s managing director.

“In terms of breadth, depth, technical specification, and all-round performance and price – big Doosan machines are the number one choice for precision manufacturers in the oil and gas, power generation and other sectors where the machining of large components is at a premium.”

http://www.machinery.co.uk/article/20389/Mills-CNC-claims-big-market-share-for-big-machines.aspx

Coventry, UK - automation upgrade specialists MasterControls Inc. and Southern Technical Services have jointly retrofitted a Gleason 782 gear hobber with a new CNC control system from NUM. The machine is used by a large aerospace components manufacturer in Chihuahua, Mexico, to produce spur, helical and crown gears with complex profiles. Prior to the retrofit, the machine’s control system had become increasingly unreliable, resulting in high maintenance overhead and unacceptable downtime.

The machine’s new NUM CNC software includes the NUMGear package, which features a highly intuitive graphical user interface to help maximise productivity. This software also performs all of the functions, which previously required an external electronic gearbox, thereby reducing the complexity of the system and the number of parts that require maintenance.

Gleason Corporation is a world leader in gearing technology; the company was founded in 1865, and nowadays its machines are ubiquitous. The Gleason 782 gear hobber is no exception - widely regarded as an industrial workhorse, it enjoys a very large customer base. However, this particular machine’s control system was showing signs of age. In this case, the gear hobber has seven CNC axes, which were controlled by an Allen Bradley 8600 CNC system and an external electronic gearbox, both of which had become outdated, unreliable and difficult to maintain. After several months of intermittent operation, the company solicited the help of MCI and STS to restore the machine to peak operational condition at a fraction of the cost of a new machine.

MasterControls Inc. (MCI) and Southern Technical Services (STS) quickly ascertained that the gear hobber was in excellent mechanical condition, but would benefit from new CNC control hardware and software, together with a new operator’s panel and some associated control modules. The customer requested that the machine’s existing drives, motors and feedback devices - all of which were perfectly serviceable - should be retained, and also stipulated that the machine footprint should not be changed. MCI and STS accommodated this latter demand by developing an entirely new sub-panel containing the new NUM CNC, power supplies, circuit breakers and contactors, which was subsequently mounted inside the machine’s existing control cabinet.

According to Jeff Petry, President of MCI, “To minimise disruption at the customer’s premises we built the sub-panel off-site, and then arranged a convenient time for installation. Since swap-out time was going to be important, we chose to use NUM breakout boards in the new sub-panel, which made it very easy to connect to the machine’s existing drives - and by using machine I/O boards with terminal strips, we were able to land all the existing wiring without any trouble whatsoever. In fact, much to our customer’s satisfaction, we were able to remove all the obsolete control hardware and complete the wiring stages of the installation - including the sub-panel, CNC control, new operator’s panel and the magnetic cabinet - in just over three days. The overall result is a very clean installation, which will contribute significantly to ease of future maintenance.”

The retrofit package is based entirely on NUM equipment. As well as the new seven-axis CNC controller, this includes a new PC based operator’s panel, which features a large, easy-to-read 15-inch LCD screen with a full membrane keyboard, and a 61-button machine tool builder’s panel with a hand pulse generator. An industrial mouse was also mounted on the operator panel, for convenience of the operator.

The supplied NUM CNC software includes the NUMGear package, which features a highly intuitive graphical user interface. The operator simply fills in fields on a graphical representation of the part on the HMI and selects a hob tool - the program is then generated automatically. All customer parts and hobs can be saved on the system by part number, so that they can easily be recalled when the part is needed for production again, and hob programs can easily be archived onto an external USB memory device. The NUMGear package also provides close monitoring of the hob tooling; the operator merely enters values into the shift data fields displayed on the HMI, and the software then handles all hob shifting completely automatically, informing the operator when it is time to check or replace the hob. This tight control approach enables tooling costs to be kept to a minimum - hobs can be sent out for grinding and recoating many times before they are worn out. The new CNC control system also performs all of the functions that previously demanded an external electronic gearbox, as previously mentioned.

After installing the new hardware and verifying the wiring, MCI and STS powered-up the machine and immediately started verifying its operation. Within a day they were producing a full set of gear types, all of which passed inspection in the customer’s quality control laboratory. At the same time, they conducted operator training, and the new user interface proved so intuitive that by the end of the day the operators were able to handle their own set-ups, including entering all part and hob data. The machine is now back in full time production.

http://www.machinetoolsonline.com/article.mvc/NUM-CNC-Upgrade-To-Gleason-782-Gear-Hobber-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO

Himfr.com, one of China's leading
B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name,
analyzes machine tool industry climate.
    Himfr.com reports that because of the financial crisis, the machine tool
industry has entered a cold spell. However, through constant innovation, the
industry continued to adjust, and in the third quarter the machine tool
industry began to rebound.
    Computer Numerical Control tools and lathes are very important in machine
tool industry, accounting for over 50 percent of the market, and with
machining centers and milling machines also developing rapidly. It can be seen
that as the automotive, parts and aerospace industries improve, so will the
machine tool industry, as a result of increased demand for machine tools.
    Machine tool products include CNC machine tools, lathes, metal cutting
machine tools, machining centers, milling machines, drill presses, punching
machines, woodworking machine tools, etc. The machine tool industry mainly
serves the automotive, spare parts, mechanical engineering, aviation and
aerospace industries. With the improved automotive industry climate, the
machine tool industry has also shown improvement; after all, the automotive
industry accounts for more than 30 percent of the market share.
    In the third quarter of 2009, the machine tool industry showed an upward
trend, although exports are still difficult, and growth is still slow. This is
a good sign that the industry has bottomed out and picked up after the crisis.
This is attributable to the national policy on downstream industries and the
expansion of Chinese demand and market stimulation, showing good results in
the third quarter. Himfr.com predicts that 2009 growth rate of China's machine
tool industry will be much higher than expected, and that the annual output
value of machine tools will reach 9 billion U.S. dollars (machine tool
consumption is currently about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars).
    The development of CNC machine tools remains the same as industry
development as a whole; in the first half of 2009 it has shown a modest upward
trend, which is even more evident in the Chinese market. As the automotive and
aviation industries continue to improve, demand for large machine tools and
CNC machine tools will also develop. Himfr predicts that the future
development trend of CNC machine tools will be prosperous.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS117842+19-Oct-2009+PRN20091019
    About Himfr.com

Available in 64-bit version that allows engineers to program data-intensive parts, CAMWorks® 2009 can generate 3-5 axis toolpaths as separate thread, and in separate processes allowing users to continue working in other areas, or on other CAM models. Data reusability enables import of CAM data associated with part models into assembly models, allowing parts to be programmed and applied to different jobs. With XML-based user defined setup sheet, machining ihttp://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/567085nformation can be viewed in web browser.

CAD/CAM Software offers solid-based CNC programming solution.

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Geometric Introduces CAMWorks® 2009

Scottsdale Arizona: Geometric Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Geometric Limited and an industry leader in developing advanced manufacturing software has announced the release of CAMWorks® 2009, the latest version of its solid-based CNC programming solution.

This new release has over 100 user-driven features and enhancements, to enable users to program parts faster and more easily. In addition, CAMWorks 2009 provides a significant number of new machining options to further strengthen its existing manufacturing capabilities.

“In today’s manufacturing landscape, the most successful shops are constantly evaluating their methodology and technology to stay competitive. We continually improve CAMWorks to meet the increasing needs of the mold making and machining industries,” said Bruce Weiner, Director Research and Development at Geometric Technologies.

In addition to the user-driven enhancements and features, CAMWorks 2009 is available in a 64-bit version that allows engineers to use its powerful processing to program data-intensive parts. Some of the key enhancements of CAMWorks 2009 are:

Performance increases due to CAMWork’s ability to generate 3-5 axis toolpaths as separate thread, and in separate processes allowing users to continue working in other areas, or on other CAM models.

Data reusability has been extended to enable the import of CAM data associated with part models into assembly models, allowing parts to be programmed and applied to different jobs. In addition, library features can be created where only selected CAM data is to be reused in other jobs.

CAMWorks 2009 also features improved graphic display performance, performance improvements in part and machine simulation, and new XML-based user defined setup sheet, which allows machining information to be viewed in a web browser.

CAMWorks 2009 also features improved graphic display performance, performance improvements in part and machine simulation, and new XML-based user defined setup sheet, which allows machining information to be viewed in a web browser.

Turning features and toolpaths have been made more intelligent with this new release, thus resulting in safer and more simplified programming of turn and mill/turn parts. Wire EDM users will benefit from new and easy creation of multiple glue stops and a more powerful post processing environment.

Simultaneous 4/5 axis improvements include toolpath control, expanded collision avoidance and creation of multiple toolpaths using rotate and copy options. Lately, enhancement to Automatic Feature Recognition and the intuitive user interface make CAMWorks easier to use than before.

CAMWorks is a SolidWorks® certified Gold CAM product that provides state-of-the-art machining capabilities seamlessly integrated in SolidWorks. CAMWorks can run within SolidWorks, or as part of a cost effective CAD/CAM package that includes CAMWorks Solids, and integrated solid modeler.

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ASG-550 is a four axle servo-control CNC saw grinder; the grinding angles, the teeth numbers, and the teeth depth can be automatically set up and controlled. No mater face grinding, top grinding or saw grinding, all of these actions can be done in one time. Without spending a long time on grinding, this machine can make the high quality and accurate grinding performance. The following is part of the features of ASG-550:

• Ceramic magnet chucks provide superior holding power that never fades, and it is easy to replace the chucks.
• Relief angle grinding can be finished in one action.
  • This 4 axle servo-control CNC grinder allows setting various feeding curves according to different saw blade diameters.
• Installed the basic automatic lubrication system.
• Equipped with standard spray mist filtration system that with cooling water recycle function.

AUTOMATIC HSS CUTTERHEAD GRINDER

Jeffer Machinery’s grinder is accurate and durable that is well approved by customers in both domestic & export markets. “Our grinder exporting to Europe is CE Certified to European standards, and we have attained high quality standards and believe in providing flawless products to our customers,” Mr. Daniel Lin pointed out the high self-motivation that every Jeffer’s worker has. “And each our product is well checked by our QC team before dispatching in order to make sure that our customers get the finest machine. Our products are precise and perfectly suit the purposes they are meant for.”

It is worth mentioning that Jeffer Machinery Co., Ltd. its production process is well documented to make sure continuous process improvement. The whole production process is carried out in-house, no matter preliminary design, production or the final inspection, they are managed through an IT network with CAD, PDM and CAM capabilities. Besides, all Jeffer Machinery grinders are accepted in the national and international markets and are known for their durability and specialized features.http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19282