North America

WESTEC California

WESTEC, the leading California manufacturing trade show, has been providing solutions to manufacturing challenges for 56 years. In our past iteration at WESTEC 2019, we welcomed over 10,000 attendees that joined together to participate in world-class exhibits, industry-lead education sessions, networking events, and more! The WESTEC 2019 show floor spanned 91,000 Square feet and hosted 428 exhibiting companies.

DISCOVER 2021 Mazak

With DISCOVER 2021, Mazak resumes our live, in-person event schedule. Join us to see a wide variety of featured technologies in action, as well as seminars on critical topics in manufacturing, tours of the Mazak iSMART Factory™ and ample opportunities for one-on-one meetings. Whether you’re trying to decide how to add new capabilities to your production line or wrestling with product challenges,

Starrag’s Live Lab – Machine viewings without leaving the office

Vollmer Vgrind 340S for those smaller tools

It’s all about training, check out a virtual machine

FANUC CRX, the newest collaborative robot

Matsuura made helped Ricaurte Precision quote shorter lead times

FANUC America, recently opened technical centre

Are you guilty of not paying attention to your spindle runtime?

Methods Chicago expands into new facility

Getting shop floor information to the right person at the right time

Matsuura’s Worldwide Service & Support

Matsuura LUMEX Aiding in Medical Research

Matsuura USA-Committed to the Community

Precision Cleaning and Welding Technologies for 75 years

Rotor shaft manufacturing with Emag

Learn about Blum – Live from Methods

What do you know about EDM – LIVE at Methods

Don’t produce more, produce better

Cobots Come to the Rescue where there is Labor Shortages

New Seco JSE510 series solid end mills

A new vice is born, the Kurt DX8 CrossOver®

DMG MORI and Schaeffler grow their partnership

MakerBot 3D Printers involved in big space project

US Cutting Tool Orders Up

So what do we know about Laser Marking machines – Live at Methods

Insert Manufacturing Made Easy

When Manufacturing Meets Art

VERICUT 9.2 from CG Tech – Simulation, Composites, and Additive Capabilities

Vollmer’s new 30,000 sq foot facility in America

New and optimized gear skiving function for the HAIMER Microset VIO Linear tool presetter

How long is this spindle in action?

Wow, how easy is that Software to use..

Vollmer’s service centre for complete machining on tooth faces and tooth tops

So what does Turnkey mean for Methods Machine Tools?

MACHINING SINGLE AISLE AIRCRAFT WING STRINGERS

Get more walk away time with this machine..

In this video a ROBOT created jobs? It’s happening everywhere

Making end mills, drill bits, form cutters and slitter blades? If it’s rotary we can grind it..

Now that’s a cool App

Horizontal machine paid for itself within 12 months, that’s some ROI

You can cut titanium on a BBT30 machine, Joe tells his story

The fastest machines we have here at HARBEC

Making those tools last longer and those finishes better using Ultrasonic Optipro machines

Now available in short and long versions, the all-encompassing HAIMER end mill

Three turret turning centre, used for milling only, Really? how’s that work – Incredible creativity

1/2 the cycle time & free up 6 machines, that’s what the install of an HMC did at the Outdoor Group

Making those tools last longer and those finishes better using Ultrasonic Optipro machines

LA Gauge run their machine shop using IOT to provide customers with planned, precise, production

Jobshop Cellpro – the new way to automate

We bought was a PUMA 12S lathe. Ten years later, it was still running without a hitch

COMAU AND SIEMENS: PIONEERS IN A NEW AND INTUITIVE APPROACH TO ROBOTIC PROGRAMMING

Universal Robots Takes ActiNav Next-Gen Machine Loading on Tour, Adds New Systems Integrators

Roboze Unveils The ARGO 1000: The World’s Largest 3D Printer with heated chamber for End-Use Parts in Extreme Conditions in Aerospace, Energy, Transportation, MedTech and Automotive Industries

Modular design for high-precision and dynamic machining: MAXXTURN 65 G2

Starrag Bumotec S191 – all in one; stable, reliable, fast and precise lights out running

This machine is bonkers – just look at the options open to manufacturers

Some people call them Collets, we call them Clamping Heads as they deliver 25% more clamping power

Face and taper helps machine this part on a Robodrill in just one pass, dry.

Hexagon reduces cycle time for bladed disc measurement with a ready-to-manufacture solution

OPEN MIND presents CAD/CAM function hyperMILL® BEST FIT

GLOBAL AUTOMATION LEADER FANUC ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION OF 750,000TH ROBOT

New wiper geometries from Walter dramatically boost feed rates while maintaining consistent surface finish.

On your marks: ANCA’s laser marking options provide time and cost-saving benefits

What’s the best way to machine Beryllium?? LA Gauge show us

INSPECTION TIMES HALVED AT VEHICLE TRANSMISSIONS MANUFACTURER

VOLLMER of America and Transor Filter USA Enter New Agreement

The world’s fastest injection moulding service adds Critical to Quality inspection with no delay

hyperMILL® Delivers Case Full of Benefits

De-sanding and deburring of aluminum castings in tight spaces

Quebec manufacturer continually seeks out new customers

Walter Launches Micro Drills for 12XD

DALLAS INDUSTRIES TO FEATURE NEW ADVANCED GRAPHICAL DISPLAY PLC CONTROL FOR FEED LINES AT FABTECH 2021

Haimer USA and GWS Tool Group Form Safe-Lock™ Partnership

New SIMOTICS SD200 Frame Size 440 low-voltage, severe-duty AC motors now with 75-800 hp output

Variance and volume advantageously combined One of a kind in series

Haimer US operation started in just 2002

Measuring flatness and form down to ten-thousandths of an inch

Carrillo run 24 hrs a day to less than 5 microns making pistons & connecting rods – watch them cut

All the operators say ‘you got a Nakamura’ can I use it

From 20 parts an hour to 42 – thanks to rpm improvement

TAMS monitors each tool

IMTS 2022 to occupy all buildings of McCormick Place

Absolute Machine Tools Earns Diamond Partner Status from Mitsubishi Electric Automation

25 years of Lantek Germany delivers platform solution as opposed to software islands

FELSOMAT USA HIGHLIGHTS INNOVATION AT INNOVATION DAY!

Hyfore offers a pallet full of benefits

Set tools and balance them using tool dynamic preset

Shrink tools and preset them to + or – 5 microns all in one operation

VIO shrink and tool preset machine from Haimer

Kiwa KMH 300A just keeps running thanks to tombstone set up

Speed, automation, reliability, control technology and accuracy – Kitamura in detail

Fine finishing on stainless moulds requires a Kitamura machine built to last

Just 3 seconds to give us confidence to move on

We get 5 hours out of the machine once the guys have gone home

Methods Office Manager – Nikki Alger

Yamaichi go from 50K turnover to 6 million thanks to the electronics industry

We stand out in accuracy and rigidity – Hermle

Toronto machine shop maximizes multitasking

Rollomatic GrindSmart 630XW3 tool grinder includes 16-station wheel changer