President Obama Visits DMG Customer, Rolls-Royce Crosspointe

Meeting the demand for complex geometries, tiny sizes and flawless surface finishes isn't easy—but the new NTX2000 mill-turn center is up to the challenge.

Even on the most crowded show floor, it's hard to miss a massive five-axis machining center with a 344-inch footprint and a 17,000-pound workpiece capacity. But at Innovation Days 2010, the imposing size and reflective sheen of the DMU 210 P duoBLOCK® weren't its only draws.

The DMU 60 eVo is the newest model in DMG’s successful eVo Series – having already sold more than 3,000 units throughout the world. In recent years, there has been growing demand for manufacturing complex workpieces, particularly in the aircraft and medical equipment industries. Mori Seiki and DMG, the world’s largest manufacturers of 5-Axis machines, have launched the DMU 60 eVo in order to meet this demand.

Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL boosts local manufacturing knowledge with a program called KidWorks. Read the story and check out the video that features the Mori Seiki DuraTurn Series equipment.

Straitline Components is “obsessed” with doing everything itself, and from day one, the shop vowed not to ship any production offshore. That’s quite an uphill course to take considering that it manufactures aftermarket mountain bike components, an industry where 98 percent of part production is typically done offshore. Surprisingly though,…