TPT November 2020

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Officine MTM installs complete mill in Mexico for production of automotive tubes

OFFICINE MTM has been awarded a contract to design, manufacture and install a complete tube mill and ancillary equipment. The mill will have the ability to produce pipes from 18 to 80mm diameter, equipped with a cold saw switchable for cut-to-length or cut-to- weight mode, blowing section, testing section, packaging and strapping

machines to eliminate the labour- intensive material handling process. The Officine MTM customer in Mexico required a partner able to supply a turnkey system with all of the equipment necessary to fulfill the very specific attributes and requirements from start to finish. A spokesman for Officine MTM said: “Not only was a mill required, but

a complete turnkey system for making pipe to comply with the highest standard of quality for the automotive sector.” The manufacturing and installation phases have been completed during the Corona Virus disruption, thanks to the skills and the diligence of the whole MTM staff and the synergies between the MTM team at the Mexican plant and at the Italian offices that made the successful completion of the project possible. For over 40 years Officine MTM’s has been has been providing its customers with the most suitable systems and equipment for the production of welded tubes and sections. MTM offers a complete and coherent range of high- tech tube mills, designed to fill all needs in ERW tube production. Officine MTM www.mtmtubemills.com work offsets, tool offsets, and G-code program. With the synchronisation between ESPRIT CAM and Mazak Smooth Ai, users can now preview the entire machining process virtually on the CNC, using the ESPRIT digital twin, before executing the program on the CNC machine. As a result, manual data input is eliminated, and the machine operator is offered greater assurance of the machining process. This results in shorter setup and prove-out times, and higher quality first-article run-offs. ESPRIT www.espritcam.com

MTM was asked to install the complete mill in Mexico

ESPRIT announces extended suppor t for innovative Mazak Smooth Ai CNC

ESPRIT by DP Technology has announced extended support for Mazak Smooth Ai CNC. ESPRIT, a company that produces machine-optimised, edit-free G-code programs, program optimisation, and machine simulation

for Mazak’s entire line of machine tools, has extended its support for Mazak’s new Smooth Ai CNCs which includes the ability to utilise the ESPRIT digital twin inside the CNC. According to ESPRIT, this new capability is the result of years of collaborative partnership between DP Technology and Mazak Japan and an exciting example of what is on the horizon for the industry at large. With this extended support, the ESPRIT project data is synchro- nised with the Mazak Smooth Ai CNC. The synchronised project data includes the part and stock models, workholding, tooling,

Extended support for Mazak Smooth AI CNC

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