Haimer’s N. American headquarters grand opening

Haimer USA celebrates the grand opening of its new 25,000ft² North American headquarters with a ribbon cutting ceremony, guest speakers, on-site machine demos, presentations, food, and refreshments.

The 3-day event, May 18-20, 2016 from 10am – 6pm daily, will host events including:

• Haimer tooling technology presentations
• Manufacturing industry speakers
• Live machining demonstrations and product presentations

Networking with technology partners Haimer’s North American U.S. headquarter expansion includes:

• State of the art training facilities, show room
• Wireless audio/visual equipment
• Reception area, lounge, and 25ft bar with German beer on tap
• 5-axis grinding machine
• Haimer shrink and balancing machines in every room
• High speed 3-axis vertical machining center

Registration is now open. Individuals interested in attending can visit

www.haimer-usa.com/open-house/registration. IMTS 2016 Booth #W-1452

Mastercam Community

The Mastercam Community iOS app offers information and calculators with immediate access to the Mastercam forum and knowledge base including:

• Radial chip calculator: Dial-in feed rate and spindle speed, based on step-over amount, feed-per-tooth, and surface speed
• Drill/tap chart: Conversions to decimal equivalents, tap sizes fraction, number, letter, metric sizes
• Forum access: Jump into the users’ forum for tips, tricks on Matercam
• My reseller: Local Mastercam reseller questions, inquiries
• Social media news feeds/videos
• CNC product line

www.mastercam.com; IMTS 2016 Booth #E-3340

Greenleaf global manager, tech team and marketing

Greenleaf Corp has appointed Jan Anderssen global manager, tech team and marketing. Anderssen comes to Greenleaf from Kennametal Corp. and Sandvik Corp. where he held various positions within product management, marketing, and sales. At Greenleaf, Anderssen is responsible for managing global marketing operations, product management, and technical services. Throughout the course of his 15 years of industry experience, Anderssen served in strategic marketing, product management, sales, and development leadership roles for suppliers of tooling and industrial materials. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Ramapo College of New Jersey. www.greenleafcorporation.com

Mazak to construct plant in Japan

Yamazaki Mazak officials have announced the construction of a new production facility in Inabe City, Mie Prefecture, Japan. The plant will combine production automation and Industrial Internet of Things technology as key components. The Inabe plant follows Mazak’s Kentucky plant where the iSMART Factory concepts are already well-entrenched, and the existing Yamazaki Mazak Oguchi Plant in Japan that will be a full iSMART Factory by the end of 2016. The Inabe plant will boost productivity by more than 50% with 603,000ft² of planned floor space for manufacturing larger size machine tools.

Mazak’s iSMART Factory uses advanced manufacturing cells and systems with full digital integration to share process control and operation monitoring data. Open communications protocol and process support software provide connectivity and the capability to monitor, and then harvest, data from production floor machines, cells, devices, and processes.

Operation from the current Yamazaki Mazak Seiko facility will transfer to the new plant in stages with completion and full operation scheduled for 2019. www.mazakusa.com; IMTS 2016 Booth #S-8300