Okuma Hosts Annual Technology Showcase

Okuma will host the 2013 Technology Showcase event on December 10-12 at the Partners in THINC facility in Charlotte. This event gives attendees the opportunity to witness the latest CNC machining technology via hands-on demonstrations, and allows them to learn how this new technology can be applied to their specific manufacturing challenges.

The demonstrations will show CNC machining technology for a wide variety of industries utilizing materials such as composites, Inconel, titanium and carbon fiber. Several Okuma CNC machines will be running, including the LB3000 EX, MULTUS B750, MB-4000H, PALLETACE (flexible manufacturing system), and the VTR-160A double column turning center. Members of Partners in THINC will demonstrate how to improve productivity by integrating peripheral equipment (such as tooling, gaging, workholding, automation, and CNC control software) with Okuma technology.

Featured Topics and Demonars:

• Unique Okuma CNC machining technologies: Collision Avoidance System, Thermal Active Stabilizer, Machining-Navi, Super-NURBS, Turn-Cut and 5-Axis Auto Tuning System
• Drawing-to-part demonstrations showing how to take a concept from design to finished part
• Lights-out manufacturing using an automation cell on a low-cost, high-accuracy CNC lathe
• Hard turning Rc60+ on an LB-3000EX CNC lathe
• Gear cutting on a 2-axis lathe with milling function and on a multi-function lathe
• Various automation cells: barfeeding a lathe; robot loading/unloading; full flexible manufacturing system (FMS) with three integrated horizontal machining centers
• More than 10 educational demonars each day including: Caron Engineering Adaptive Software (TMAC), Renishaw Equator, Real Time Connectability, Machining-Navi, and Turn-Cut, PALLETACE (FMS) 

50th Anniversary of Okuma’s OSP Control

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the OSP CNC control, attendees can take a test drive of the revolutionary Okuma THINC^®-OSP-P300. Featuring applications including the Collision Avoidance System, One-Touch IGF, 3D Virtual Monitor, Caron Engineering’s TMAC and dataZen’s Mira, the user-friendly, self-directed displays make it easy for users to “Try It”. All attendees that complete a Try It demonstration will be entered to in a drawing to win an iPad.

Facility tours of Okuma Headquarters will be offered multiple times a day. Attendees will get a behind-the-scenes look at how Okuma America responds to and supports customers in the Americas.

For more information or to register for this event, visit www.okuma.com/events/2013techshow.