MONROVIA, CA – Miyachi Unitek Corporation, a leading manufacturer of welding equipment and laser processing systems, announces the release of its new 20W single mode fiber laser marker, which yields a finer beam with a variety of advantages for marking, scribing and cutting applications. The new LMF 2000-SM laser marker can produce finer lines and increases the mark working area. It also has an increased depth of focus for marking on curved surfaces. The new model is ideal for the scribing and cutting a wide variety of materials, including alumina, silicon, copper and aluminum foils.

Miyachi Unitek developed the new single mode model in response to customer demand for fine marking (less than 30 microns) and micromachining applications. The LMF 2000-SM has a high beam quality, with an M2 of less than 1.2. While multi-mode fiber has higher light-gathering capacity than single-mode optical fiber, single mode fibers allow only one propagation mode of the light, increasing focusability.

The LMF series of fiber laser markers offers high beam quality and high peak power, which maximizes speed and depth. Featuring a compact, air-cooled, robust design, the LMF series features PC, touchscreen, stand alone or pendant operation, rotary and XYZ motion options, and a variety of marking software alternatives. The LMF 2000-SM is compatible with all LMF standard configuration options for optics, heads, PC, and motion.

About Miyachi Unitek

Miyachi Unitek is a leading manufacturer of equipment and systems for resistance welding, laser welding, laser marking, laser cutting, and hot bar reflow soldering and bonding. The company provides products to a wide range of markets, including the medical device, battery, electric vehicle, and solar industries, as well as the global electronics, automotive, and general industrial markets. Miyachi Unitek is an ISO9001 certified company. Contact Miyachi Unitek at its company headquarters, located at 1820 S Myrtle Ave., Monrovia, CA 91016, by phone at (626) 303-5676, or by email at info@muc.miyachi.com. Find out more about the company’s products and services at www.miyachiunitek.com.

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If you are going to the 2011 Wisconsin Manufacturing & Technology Show (WMTS) in West Allis, Wisconsin (just outside Milwaukee) be sure to visit PartMaker in Booth #741. At WMTS, we’ll be previewing PartMaker Version 2012, the next release of the PartMaker suite of CAM Software, due out later this year. If you’ve looked at PartMaker before, but haven’t seen lately, prepare to be impressed.

In addition to the many enhancements made in recent versions, PartMaker Version 2012 will feature a host of powerful enhancements including a new module for the simulation of vertical and horizontal machining centers, improved simulation for the latest breed of multi-axis Turn-Mill and Swiss-lathe machine architectures, more powerful surface machining strategies, improved visualization in programming as well as a host of additional productivity enhancements.
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Hannover, Germany, 24 September 2011. At the close of EMO Hannover 2011 – the leading international trade fair for the machine tool industry – exhibitors, visitors and organizers were unanimous in their praise of the event: “This EMO was a winner in every respect and has earned top marks from visitors and exhibitors alike. EMO Hannover has further expanded its reputation as the flagship fair for the international metalworking industry,” remarked EMO Hannover General Commissioner Dr. Detlev Elsinghorst at the end of the fair. “The machine tool industry continues in full swing. In the course of the past six days, the order volume reached a minimum of €4.5 billion,” added Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association (VDW), the organizer of the event. “Against the backdrop of an upswing in orders over the past few months, EMO’s positive outcome means an even stronger market footing for exhibitors,” concluded Schäfer.

Staged under the motto of “Machine Tools & More”, the six-day event in Hannover featured the latest machinery, solutions and services for every conceivable aspect of metalworking – a veritable tour de force by some 2,037 exhibitors from 41 different nations. “EMO has confirmed its international reputation as an unparalleled showcase for innovations. With its remarkable innovative spirit and drive, the industry is clearly making a major contribution to sustainable growth,” Elsinghorst added.

The machine tools industry’s innovative capabilities were not only evidenced by impressive performance specs, but also in terms of highly functional and attractive design – an aspect that is just as essential to today’s high-performance machinery.

Sustainability in production was the main focus of most innovations and solutions at the event. Elsinghorst is certain, “This EMO reflects the high priority manufacturers are now giving to energy-efficient plant and machinery. When it comes to staying competitive in the global marketplace, the efficient use of energy and raw materials is becoming a decisive factor.”

With nearly 40 percent of all EMO attendees coming from abroad, exhibitors were especially delighted with the event’s international turnout. “The strong international appeal makes EMO unique throughout the industry, and is a key factor in its success,” said Schäfer, adding that he saw EMO as a reflection of ongoing globalization. This accounted for a shift in foreign attendance, with an increase of more than 6.5 percent in the ratio of foreign visitors from outside Europe, particularly Asia and South America, which in turn led to record-breaking figures for the duration of stay per visitor: “One out of every four attendees spent more than three days at EMO 2011,” Schäfer emphasized.

The industry’s positive mood was visible in the exhibition halls, where more than half of all visitors reported playing a major role in their companies’ purchasing decisions. Commensurately, 55 percent of EMO trade visitors reported coming to the show with concrete investment plans. Among foreign visitors, this figure even reached 75 percent. Around half of all attendees said their investments were targeted at expanded capacities, while 20 percent were planning to make first-time purchases of machine tools. “There will be no rest for EMO exhibitors once the event is over. The many orders taken at EMO – on top of an already high utilization of capacity – will have everyone working at full tilt,” Schäfer predicted.

The many and varied supporting events made a visit to EMO even more rewarding. Conferences on topics such as sustainable manufacturing, advances in aerospace technologies, Russia as a growth market and talent recruitment for the future all sparked lively interest and debate.

EMO Hannover 2011 (19 to 24 September) attracted some 140,000 visitors from more than 100 countries. “Highly-qualified visitors from more than 100 countries, thousands of technical innovations, a supporting program about Knowledge Transfer, and orders worth billions – EMO Hannover is more than a trade fair. It is the world championship of the machine tool industry, and the champions compete here.

The next EMO Hannover is scheduled for 16 to 21 September 2013.

PartMaker Version 2012 will be previewed at four industry trade shows in North America in September and October 2011.

Fort Washington, PA – PartMaker Inc., a division of Delcam Plc, will preview Version 2012 of its PartMaker Software for programming CNC Mills, Lathes, WireEDM, Turn-Mill Centers and Swiss-type lathes, at four industry trade shows in North America during September and October.  Major highlights of PartMaker Version 2012 include a new Kinematic Machine Simulation Module for vertical and horizontal machining centers, improved simulation for the latest breed of multi-axis Turn-Mill and Swiss-lathe machine architectures, more powerful surface machining strategies, improved visualization in programming as well as a host of additional productivity enhancements.

You can see a preview of PartMaker Version 2012 live at following industry trade shows in September and October: the IMX Manufacturing Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Canadian Machine Tool Show in Toronto, Canada, the Southtec Show in Charlotte, North Carolina and Wisconsin Machine Tool Show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. See http://www.partmaker.com/news/events.asp for more information.

“PartMaker Version 2012 further demonstrates the accelerated pace of development PartMaker has undergone since its acquisition by Delcam five years ago,” says PartMaker Inc. division President Hanan Fishman.  “Since joining Delcam, the functionality, capability and power of the PartMaker CAM software suite has grown massively and rapidly by taking advantage of Delcam’s extensive development resources. Delcam’s world wide team of over 225 developers is the CAM software industry’s largest development team. Multi-axis milling functionality that has taken Delcam many, many man years to develop is being added to PartMaker at a rapid pace and reduced cost, which provides a major benefit to the product’s end users.”

“Today, the machining algorithms in PartMaker are among the most sophisticated in the industry, offering PartMaker users a great deal of power along PartMaker’s hallmark ease of use, a combination simply not found in other CAM systems,” says Fishman.

New Milling Simulation Module – Kinematic Machine Simulation (KMS)

PartMaker Version 2012 will feature a new simulation module for the PartMaker Mill application, Kinematic Machine Simulation (KMS). The new KMS module will provide a whole new level of realism and collision detection for the machining simulation of parts being manufactured on vertical and horizontal machining centers.  This new module will simulate the full architecture of milling machines including work holding, rotary tables and tombstone fixtures.

Simulation of Next Generation Machine Tools

            Machine tool architectures have evolved greatly in the past 18 months, perhaps faster than it did in the previous five years.  New multi-tasking machine tools that have come to the market and are yet coming to market are being equipped with new more powerful, more sophisticated capability. PartMaker Version 2012 supports this functionality, including the simulation of a new breed of Swiss lathe which supports 5-axis milling from a gang-slide type architecture. These new architectures will provide end users with significantly more machining capability and less cost as they can avoid the need purchase costly and difficult to set-up angled attachments.  Such machines will also support more sophisticated 5-axis machining than was available to Swiss users in the past.

Improved Visualization

            PartMaker Version 2012 will feature improved 3D tool path visualization through the entire programming process even when a solid model is not available.  This improved visualization will allow users to benefit from the use the 3D graphics at every step of the programming process even if only working from a 2D drawing.

More Powerful Surfacing Strategies

            PartMaker Version 2012 will feature a variety of new surfacing strategies including improved, more powerful roughing and finishing strategies. These new strategies will be based on the same machining algorithms as those found in PowerMILL, Delcam’s flagship CAM system for the manufacture of complex shapes.  The new strategies are presented to the PartMaker user in a manner consistent with PartMaker’s industry leading ease of use.

More on PartMaker

PartMaker is a Knowledge Based Machining system, allowing it to provide a substantial gain in programming efficiency by remembering the tools, material and process information necessary to machine individual part features.  It thus relieves the user from reentering the same features information for subsequent parts.  It also improves productivity by placing the emphasis on tool management functions.

PartMaker pioneered the field of CAM software for Turn-Mills and Swiss-type lathes with its patented Visual Programming Approach for programming multi-axis lathes with live tooling. It assures quicker learning and easier use. It makes an extensive use of pictures to help the user describe tools, part features and machining data.  Synchronization of tools working on multiple spindles is achieved by a few mouse clicks.

PartMaker Inc. is a subsidiary of Delcam Plc, the world’s leading developer and supplier of complete CAD/CAM software solutions.  Delcam Plc is publicly traded on the AIM exchange in London.  While PartMaker is sold direct in North America by PartMaker Inc. PartMaker is sold overseas through a network of sales partner offices operating in over 120 countries.