CGTech’s Composites software suite is independent of CAD/CAM/PLM design systems such as Catia or Siemens NX, and of builders of the automated fibre placement machines such as MAG, MTorres or Electro-Impact.

Siemens PLM Software was showing a Red Bull Formula One car at MACH 2012, which has been designed using Siemens’ NX software.

Delcam's ArtCAM helps Aitkens Pewter to exceed customer expectations

Balluff is known for its comprehensive machine-tool controls with proximity and measurement sensing, industrial RFID and networking competence. Highlights of its stand at MACH are a Tool Change Control Box for retrofit RFID tool-monitoring applications, pressure sensing for hydraulic and cooling lubricants, reduced machine wiring costs via IO-Link connectivity and quality inspection vision sensors.

From the entry-level TNC 320 analogue CNC to the new TNC 640 — the first-ever Heidenhain CNC for mill-turn machines — the company’s exhibits will include the high-end (up to 13 axes) iTNC 530 CNC analogue/digital system for complex operations on milling machines and machining centres, the TNC 620 and 320 CNCs for milling, drilling and boring routines and the ManualPlus 620 CNC for turning centres.

Vericut 7.2 features many enhancements to improve speed, thereby reducing the time required for manufacturing engineers to develop, analyse, inspect and document the CNC programming and machining process.

The latest products from ABB include the Flex Finishing package and the software- and electronics-based safety solution SafeMove

elcam will preview its new Vortex strategy for high-speed area clearance on stand 4011 at MACH. Vortex will be the major enhancement for the 2013 release of Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM system for high-speed and five-axis machining.

Delcam will demonstrate the ease and speed of programming that is possible with its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system on stand 4011 at the MACH exhibition.

Aspen Technology has acquired SolidSim Engineering — a provider of solids process modelling software based in Hamburg, Germany.