Sunnen Products Company and TIBO Tiefbohrtechnik GmbH have announced a strategic alliance to expand their global capabilities in deep hole machining solutions. Under the agreement, the companies will work together on marketing and sales activities to provide complementary machine tool technologies to customers in the global machine tool industry. The combined portfolio brings together Sunnen’s…
Software comes into its own in fluid power design
While at CONEXPO/CON-AGG earlier this year, I noticed a few themes running through many of the booths. One was the discussion over steering, and I cover that in a multi-source trends piece here. Closely tied into this is the notion that software has moved from “nice to have” to core infrastructure in fluid power design.…
HydroCam software reduces manifold CNC programming from hours to minutes
Hydraulic manifold machining is challenging to say the least. Traditional CAM software was built for external shapes: contours, pockets, profiles, among others. It was never designed for the inside-out world of hydraulic manifolds, which features a complex internal grid of precisely intersecting holes, cavities, and ports with extremely tight tolerances. As a result, programming manifold…