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(ARTICLE) Blue Photon Introduction to the Japanese Manufacturing Industry
December 8th, 2023 by Blue PhotonBlue Photon Events
September 14th, 2023 by Blue PhotonBrowse our list of 2024 events to meet Blue Photon and see live demonstrations of products.
Lots of opportunities to get to know Blue Photon and exchange ideas with the application experts.
See a live demo here.
MACH
National Exhibition for inspiring, innovating and connecting engineering-based manufacturing.
National Exhibition Centre – Birmingham UK
April 15-19, 2024
Stand 19-130
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The Aerospace Grinding Summit
Presented by United Grinding North America and Norton.
UGA HQ – Miamisburg, OH
April 23-24, 2024
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Ceramics Expo
Technical Ceramic & Glass Industry Event.
Suburban Collection Showplace – Novi, MI
April 30-May 1, 2024.
Booth #1005
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DMG Mori – Chicago Innovation Days Open House
Explore the benefits of Machining Transformation (MX): the future of manufacturing.
DMG Mori Chicago Solution Center – Hoffman Estates, IL
May 7-10, 2024
Register Today
Space Tech Expo | USA
The West Coast’s Premier B2B Exhibition & Conference for the Space Industry.
Long Beach Convention Centre — Long Beach, CA
May 14-15, 2024
Register Today
Allendale Machinery Systems Tooling & Technology Showcase
Haas HFO and Kitamura Distributor for North Jersey and Eastern NY.
Allendale Machinery – Upper Saddle River, NJ
June 12, 2024
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Montreal Manufacturing Technology Show
Quebec’s premier manufacturing technology event.
Palais des Congrès de Montréal – Montréal, QC
June 18-20, 2024
Visit us at MMTS!
Rapid+tct
North America’s largest additive manufacturing and industrial 3D printing event.
Los Angeles Convention Center – Los Angeles, CA
June 25-27, 2024
Booth #1113
Visit us at Rapid+tct
IMTS
International Manufacturing Technology Show
McCormick Place – Chicago, IL
Sept. 9-14, 2024
West Building, Level 3 – Booth #431446
To attend, register today!
JIMTOF
The 32nd Japan International Machine Tool Fair
Tokyo International Exhibition Center – Tokyo, Japan
Nov. 5-10, 2024
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The 2023 product catalog is ready for viewing and download.
August 14th, 2023 by Blue Photon
Blue Photon Technology & Workholding Systems LLC, the exclusive manufacture of patented adhesive workholding systems in the U.S. announces the release of their new catalog.
The catalog features a multitude of workholding gripper and insert components designed to improve holding strength while using the BlueGrip™ workholding adhesives. The catalog provides information about the latest developments in new products to the Blue Photon workholding system.
Fixturing Castings Made Simple Through Adhesive Workholding
March 28th, 2023 by Blue Photon| 4 MINUTE READ
Fixturing Castings Made Simple Through Adhesive Workholding
When a casting proved too malleable for traditional gripping, Thomas/Euclid Industries adopted — and succeeded with — Blue Photon adhesive workholding.
Soft material was not the EV strut housing’s only workholding challenge: The part barely fit the UMC 750’s travels. Potential fixtures needed to be low-profile enough to ensure the part continued to fit the machine. Images courtesy of Thomas/Euclid.
As metals go, aluminum is soft and quick to bend — factors which make it easy to work with for most machining applications but make workholding to tolerances of 0.0005 inch unfeasible with traditional grippers. The force required to perform workholding could send the part out of tolerance, requiring rework or scrap. For Thomas/Euclid Industries, this difficulty became the push it needed to experiment with alternative forms of workholding, utilizing Blue Photon’s adhesive grippers to perform contactless gripping on an EV strut housing made from an aluminum casting.
Maximizing Lights-on Profits
Thomas/Euclid is primarily an aerospace manufacturer — EV automotive parts are not the norm for the company. In this case, the job came about not long after the shop installed a Matsuura MX 330 five-axis machine. The new machine’s automation capacity enabled the shop to run many of the jobs previously on its five-axis Haas UMC 750 for longer periods, decreasing the time necessary to complete these jobs even as it left the UMC 750 idle. Ryan Merrill, chief operating officer at Thomas/Euclid, says the search for additional work to put on the shop’s UMC 750 led the company to a customer already committed to machining EV strut housings.
Blue Photon Workholding System Simplifies Part Loading
March 10th, 2023 by Blue Photon | 2 MINUTE READ
Appears in Print as: ‘Workholding System Simplifies Part Loading’
Blue Photon Workholding System Simplifies Part Loading
PMTS 2023: The workholding stabilizer puck simplifies how parts are loaded, reducing scrap, enabling faster feed rates and increasing spindle uptime.
Blue Photon has designed a system using workholding grippers and insert components for use with Big Daishowa and other stabilizer systems. The system holds the workpiece without drilling and tapping into the part or with the need to clamp the part.
The unit is easily adjustable when positioning to grip the part wherever needed to stabilize the workpiece. The unit enables the transfer of loads to the machine table and base. The stabilizer puck simplifies how parts are loaded, reducing scrap, enabling faster feed rates and increasing spindle uptime.
Adhesive Workholding Pallet System Designed for Complex Parts
April 22nd, 2022 by Blue PhotonPublished | 1 MINUTE READ
Adhesive Workholding Pallet System Designed for Complex Parts
Blue Photon’s Grip Pallets are designed for quick change and adhesive workholding of complex and hard-to-hold parts for EDM, grinding, inspection, laser and milling operations
Blue Photon has added five Grip Pallets and three new inserts for 52- and 96-mm quick-change receiver systems. The addition enables more applications using existing fixturing systems in machining centers. Blue Photon Grip Pallets are designed to simplify how parts are loaded, reduce scrap and increase spindle uptime.
Available in 150, 225 and 300 mm square pallets, the Grip Pallets are designed for quick change and adhesive workholding of complex and hard-to-hold parts for EDM, grinding, inspection, laser and milling operations. The pallets can hold parts securely, providing increased machining access on five to six surfaces while using standardized fixturing systems already in place.
(VIDEO) Swarf Talk: Blue Photon Video Clip
September 29th, 2021 by Blue PhotonLearn more about the world’s only ultraviolet workholding technology
June 29th, 2021 by Blue PhotonBlue Photon® will demonstrate the advantages of their ultraviolet (UV) workholding technology at the Ceramics Expo, Gosigerfest, Rapid+tct, Southtec and Wichita Industrial Trade Show this fall.
The NEW, 2021 Blue Photon Product Catalog is ready for viewing and download.
January 28th, 2021 by Blue Photon
Blue Photon’s workholding technology solutions.
Blue Photon is pleased to announce the release of new products to the Blue Photon workholding system line-up. Blue Photon is committed to revolutionizing the workholding industry. This is achieved by using innovative ultraviolet (UV) technology to design unique workholding and fixturing for specialized applications. Our customers in turn receive the solutions they need most. If you have machining challenges, you’re sure to find a solution with Blue Photon’s workholding system.
(VIDEO) Ultraviolet (UV) Workholding Technology for Additive Manufacturing
May 28th, 2020 by Blue PhotonHow do you hold additive parts for post-machining?
Blue Photon workholding products are designed to hold complexed-shaped, additive parts for tight-tolerance machining, and final finishing while creating better parts, and lowering manufacturing costs. To learn why we are the world’s solution to holding additive parts, check out the video below: