Interview: 20-aniversary of the BTS Company d. o. o.
The future is in knowledge Brothers Boh, Tomaž and Sandi, had vision, motivation and knowledge 20 years ago. They transferred family tradition of metalworking into a company BTS Company which appointed Slovenian industry with the tools and machines of the highest quality. Even today they enjoy in working and have some plans for future steps that will enable further growth of the company. 

 Advantages of scraping of hard components compared to the conventional technologies of grinding are today already well documented. Until recent, there was opinion that advantages are related only with finishing parts with larger diameters. Company Sandvik Coromant knows very well that advantages of this new technology are usable for all tool-shops in which finishing of hard components with holes diameters to 8,5 mm occurs, and therefore introduces more smaller plates for scraping of hard components in certified qualities CB7015 and CB7025. Scraping of hard components is process during which a contact between component and tool in one point can simply realized complex contours without expensive forming rings, while finishing occurs in more points simultaneously. 

 Hotel Antunović in Zagreb was on 10th March host of seminar “Automatization in toolmaking”, that was held under sponsorship of companies Siming d.o.o. from Ljubljana and Teh-cut d.o.o. from Zagreb. The seminar get at on one spot over sixty participant, mainly experts from the industry and economy. First presentation as introduction was hold by Duško Radović, manager in company Teh-cut. He shared unselfish his experience from the production of tools with modern flexible machining systems companies Hermle and System 3R. Following was presentation of company Hermle, producer of 5-axis milling machines from Germany, which had assure their recognizability at the market by many innovative solutions in their machines and by development of wide service network. 

 In production industry it can be noticed a clear trend toward complete machining on single machine. Turning machines with possibility of milling operation are already proven at the market, therefore there are now at disposal machines with integrated simultaneous 5-axis machining. Moreover, there is increase of requests for combined machines for milling and turning operations, which production started twenty years ago, but in practice they were not accepted because of the high prices and complexity. Thanks to the latest cooperation of experts from fields of machine construction, electrotechnics and informatics, machining combined with milling and turning is now in renaissance. This kind of machining centers for complete machining are requested by production facilities that primary take milling jobs of components that also have to be finished by smaller number of turning operations. Modern centers for milling and turning machining do not ask for more space than classical turning machines. 

 Zoller's »excitement over measuring« is with many presented innovations at five international fairs, that were held at the end of last year (IMTS in Chicago, BIMU in Milan, AMB in Stuttgart, MSV in Brno, Vienna-Tec in Wien), excite even expert area and once again confirm leading market position of the company. Zoller's devices are developed by practitioners and for practice and attract with their exceptional functionality, the highest accuracy and optimal conditions in control. 

 With today's methods of 3D measuring, companies can quickly and effectively control their production processes. Similar to other areas, in which there are many selection possibilities and competition, at the area of measuring there are also many different methods. They can be distinguished from each other based on physical principles of measuring, e.g. upon measuring accuracy, repeatability, robustness, system adaptability etc. Although generally all methods enable measuring of majority of objects, however selection of optimal process is influenced by several factors. Presented comparison of different measuring methods is aimed as assistance in decision making in selection of the best 3D measuring system. Generally, dimensional measuring can be divided into two groups - contact and noncontact measuring. As a result of relatively simple principles of operation, first of all a contact methods carried out with mechanical devices were developed in the past. By contact of sensor on one or more points, a coordinate of the contact point (coordinate measuring machine), or distance between two contact points (calipers, micrometers, ...) can be measured. In the eighties years of last century, a development of noncontact 3D measuring methods is begun. Those methods experienced their impetus just before year 2000., and especially after that year. 

 From 18. till 20. October 2010. in Linz, in Austria, a conference for PLM Europe users, respectively annual meeting of users of Siemens PLM Software program solutions and technologies was held. The meeting was participated with more than 740 representatives from 209 companies from 25 countries. Conference program within three days offered 130 professional papers related with industrial applications, as well as with news and characteristic program solutions. 

 Positive movements at the market of polymers were possible to perceive from the first moments of the opening of the largest fair for plastics and rubber in the world - K2010, which was held in Düsseldorf from 27th October till 3rd November. At the fair, 3102 exhibitors were presented, and the fair was visited by more than 220 000 visitors. Exhibitors reported about unexpected number of contacts and about the mood at the market for new investments. Many of them reported even about new business contracts signed during fair, which the best describes about returning of the optimism in plastics and rubber industry. Presented innovations at K 2010 encourage strong believe in execution of orders.