Accurate Cutting Services Ltd
http://www.accurate-cutting.co.uk/
Accurate Cutting Services offer a total sawing solution for all metal working applications. The company supplies and services band and circular saw blades for all types of sawing machines. It also sells band and circular sawing machines.
The company's site provides a brief profile, and details of the cutting offered, including application examples. Details of blades and machines are given, together with a technical service.
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Agro Engineers (Gears)
http://www.agroengineers.com/
Agro Engineers (Gears) are based in Rajasthan, India. They manufacture mechanical engineering power transmission equipment for a large variety of industries.
The site gives information about the company and its products, including some technical specifications and information on selecting worm speed reducers. Links to other sites of potential interest are given
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Alpha Metals Inc
http://www.alphametals.com/
Alpha Metals, Inc. is involved in the development, manufacturing and sales of innovative materials used in the electronic assembly process. It is a full line supplier of solder paste, stencils, squeegee blades, stencil and PCB cleaners, solder, preforms, cored wire solder, soldering fluxes, adhesives, ionic contamination measuring equipment and sphere's for BGA and chipscale applications.
The Alpha site provides details of the company and its products and services, together with a list of trade shows, news, and contact information. Both technical bulletins (specifications) and technical articles may be retrieved in Adobe Acrobat format. Some slide show presentations (Solderballs in Wave Soldering, Chip Wave Dilemma) are on offer, together with guidelines and a glossary (on solder paste stencils).
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American Machinist
http://www.americanmachinist.com/
This magazine site full text of the current issue of the magazine as well as a freely accessible archive of full-text articles going back to 1998 which can be browsed by date or by type of technology.
There is a section of cutting tool charts and articles as well as links to articles on the basics of metalworking and welding. Linking between similar articles in the magazine is provided. There are calculating tools for machining and metalworking. A supplier database and a classified ads section for used equipment are provided. New stories are available.
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Annals of the Oradea University
http://imtuoradea.ro/auo.fmte/
This site includes full text papers in pdf format from a yearly publication issued by Publishing House of Oradea University.It covers mechanics, strength of materials, vibration, numerical methods, applied mathematics, industrial robots, tribology, CAD, CAM, production systems management and quality engineering.
Descriptions of the review process and information on how to submit papers is provided.
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Arcraft Plasma Equipments (India) Pvt Ltd
http://www.arcraftplasma.com
Arcraft Plasma, based in Mumbai, India, manufacture air plasma cutting machines, torches and consumables.
The site gives detailed information about the company's products with technical specifications. The welding data section contains some technical articles and other data on welding techniques and materials, as well as formulae and conversion tables. The zipped catalogue is available to download, and details of courses run by the company's School of Welding are given along with links to related sites.
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Argon Diamond
http://www.btinternet.com/~argoncorp/
Argon are manufacturers and suppliers of diamond and CBN grinding wheels, diamond files, diamond dressers, lapping paste and many other superabrasive tools.
The site provides product photos and details and includes a brochure that can be downloaded.
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Autoreel Ltd
http://www.autoreel.co.uk/
Autoreel is a manufacturer of cable handling machinery for reeling, measuring and cutting off, wire rope, hose and other flexible products.
The Autoreel server provides details (including technical information) of the company's products, including gantry take-ups and pay-offs, pintle loading cable winding and payouts, shaft loading cable winding machines, linear measuring meters, shaft loading cable winding machines, combined motorised cable winding and payout, live cable drum racking, shaft loading payout machines, hand operated cable winder, high speed despatch winder, and cable drum jacks.
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AxFlow Ltd
http://www.axflow.co.uk/
AxFlow Ltd is based in London and Aberdeen, UK. It specialises in positive displacement pumps for fluid handling.
The site includes descriptions, photos and specifications of products as well as descriptions of applications. A brochure is provided in PDF format. Information on product news and events is gvien.
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Basics of computer numerical control (CNC)
http://www.cncci.com/resources/articles/CNC%20basics.htm
This document discusses the first five key concepts of CNC, and aims to give CNC newcomers a sound introduction to what CNC is all about.
The key concepts covered are: fundamentals of CNC; know your machine; motion types; compensation types; and program formatting. It is part of the website run by CNC Concepts, Inc.
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Boxford Ltd
http://www.boxford.co.uk/
Boxford supplies manual and CNC machine tools meeting a wide range of training, educational and industrial requirements. The website supplies company details, and information on educational and industrial machining centres, lathes and milling machines, some of which are suitable for both educational and industrial purposes.
Details of systems layout solutions in laboratory, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) and computer-integrated manufacturing systems (CIM) environments are provided. Supporting documentation is described, and turning and milling sofware details are given, together with downloadable demonstrations.
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Bremen Institute of Applied Beam Technology at the University of Bremen
http://www.bias.uni-bremen.de/
This research project site contains information about the staff, projects and products developed by the Institute. Product information is in PDF format from the Institute's FTP server and is mostly in English. The BIAS Bulletin which has details of recent research results is also available but is in German only. There is also a full-text paper on the processing of laser materials.
BIAS (Bremen Institute of Applied Beam Technology) is a non-profit, limited liability company whose purpose is research, development, engineering, and transfer of modern processing and measuring methods to industry.
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Bridgeport Machines Ltd.
http://www.bpt.com/
The Bridgeport site provides details of the company's products (vertical machining centres, horizontal machining centres, CNC milling machines, universal milling machines, CNC lathes, CNC grinding, CAM systems), and a forum including Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and contact details (currently under construction).
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C.Dugard Ltd
http://www.dugard.co.uk/
C. Dugard Ltd, the largest UK importer of CNC machine tools from Taiwan, distribute British built machine tools manufactured by Cincinnati Milacron, and supply top quality used machine tools.
The Dugard website outlines the history of the company, provides details of stock (mainly CNC lathes, CNC vertical machining centres and CNC horizontal machining centres), news, personnel and machine of the month.
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C4 Carbides
http://www.C4carbides.com/
C4 Carbides, based in Cambridge UK, manufactures tungsten grit products. The C4 site provides a list of links to the variety of Tungsten carbide grit applications, both traditional and custom. A products section highlights traditional cutting tools such as bandsaws, holesaws, jig & reciprocating saws, circular saw blades, and hand tools. Examples of customised applications are given.
Downloadable literature is available in PDF format on topics such as Tungsten Grit Bandsaw Blades, High Friction Materials and Bandsaw Applications. Links to partners and customers are provided, together with details of news and events.
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Camation Ltd
http://www.camation.co.uk/
The Camation site provides details of the CADLink computer-aided CNC programming package. It offers information on the CADLink concept and features, together with prices, technical support and sample screens.
In addition, other packages are available: Plan-IT, a production scheduling tool; OctoPlus, a CNC communications manager; and Probe-Ability, a PCB test rig design tool.
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Camtek Ltd
http://www.peps.com/
Camtek has developed, and supplies and supports the PEPS NC Part Programming CAM (Computer-Aided Manufacturing) software and DNC (Direct Numerical Control) systems. The Camtek server provides information on the company's products and services. The products include PEPS modules for milling, turning, 3-D surfaces, punching, wire EDM, profile burning (suitable for laser cutting, plasma cutting, waterjet cutting and flame cutting machines), and routing. Services include training and bespoke software.
In addition, there are pages giving information on news, press releases and case studies, a support desk, user group details, distributors, and sites of related interest.
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Canadian tooling and machining association
http://www.ctma.com/
This association site includes a series of pdf format articles on business practice in the tooling and machining industry.
There is an archive of a pdf format associaton newsletters from 2002 onwards. Business news and also a list of conferences, training and other events is provided. Members can participate in a discussion forum. A list of members is available as well as business surveys.
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China Tool Information Network
http://www.chinatool.net/
This is a Chinese language website.
This site is dedicated to promoting China's tool industry, and provides industry and product news. Tables of contents for two magazines, Tool Engineering Magazine and Tool Prospect Magazine, are available.
China Tool Information Network is a joint initiative of the State Precision Tool Engineering Technology Research Center and Chengdu Tool Research Institute.
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CIMdata Inc
http://www.cimdata.com/
CIMdata is an international organisation that provides technical and market consulting and research services to users and vendors of product Lifecycle Management (PLM),including PDM, CAD/CAM and Numerical Control technologies.
The CIMdata site provides details about the company and its services. There is a list of forthcoming events and some full-text articles. In addition, three free full-text reports (collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm): An Overview; Visualizing Product Information - A CIMdata product overview; and The Standardization and Use of Asset Data in the Energy Industry) may be accessed. Details of other products and services are offered, together with company and contact information and links to sites of related interest.
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Cision by Rotabroach
http://www.rotabroach.co.uk/
Rotabroach Ltd are manufacturers and distributors of Cision cutters.
This site gives information about the product range, plus notes about their applications in construction, mining, the oil and gas industries, etc. Some technical specifications are given.
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Colchester Lathe Company
http://www.colchester.co.uk/
The Colchester Lathe Company, now part of the 600 Group plc, has been established in the machine tool industry since 1897.
The site provides information on the company, a series of questions and answers on lathes and the company, a news section, and details of the product range. These details include, for each product, product information, an image of the product, and technical specifications.
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CompuCut
http://www.compucutters.com/
This site includes descriptions, photos and specifications for software and electronics for a three axis self build CNC machine tool.
There are illustrated examples of applications
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Computer Numerical Control Bookshelf
http://www.cncbookshelf.com/
The CNC Bookshelf is a listing of the latest books for Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine tools, with the possibility to order them online.
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Cranfield Precision
http://www.cranfieldprecision.com/
This commercial site contains product information on special purpose, high precision machines.
The site includes images and specifications of the products and there are also further details of the company's services.
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