Laguna Tools has announced the launch of its latest breakthrough product: the Laguna DXIII DriftMaster Fence. The DX3 sets new standards for the resawing experience on a bandsaw, raising the bar by offering unparalleled versatility, accuracy, and ease of use.

Designed as the next evolution of the acclaimed DriftMaster fence system, the DX3 is engineered to fit seamlessly with a wide array of bandsaws ranging from 12″ to 24″. Boasting an array of advanced features and enhancements, this cutting-edge fence empowers woodworkers to achieve precision and repeatability at an efficient level.

Key Features of the DX3 DriftMaster:

• Tool-Free Precision Drift Adjustment: Say goodbye to cumbersome adjustments. The DX3 enables effortless fine-tuning for impeccable cuts, enhancing productivity and eliminating frustration.
• Enhanced Precision Modes: Equipped with both manual and precision modes, the DX3 ensures repeatable, precise fence positioning. With a front-facing handwheel for incremental cuts, users can achieve unparalleled accuracy with ease.
• Universal Mounting Bracket: The two-part universal mounting bracket accommodates a wider range of saws, offering unprecedented flexibility and compatibility.
• Heavy Gauge High/Low Fence: Designed for maximum stability and versatility, the tall, heavy-gauge fence enables seamless adjustments for workpieces of varying sizes, allowing for high and low-height resawing cuts.
• Linear Guide for Smooth Motion: Engineered for durability and accuracy, the precision linear guide ensures smooth, precise motion, enhancing the quality of every cut.

The Benefits of the DX3 DriftMaster

• Unrivaled Precision: From tool-free drift angle adjustments to precision handwheel controls, the DX3 empowers woodworkers to achieve unparalleled accuracy with every cut.
• Versatility and Adaptability: With its wide range of adjustment options and universal mounting bracket, the DX3 seamlessly adapts to a diverse array of bandsaws, making it the ideal solution for any woodworking environment.
• Enhanced Productivity: By streamlining the setup process and offering intuitive controls, the DX3 enables woodworkers to maximize efficiency and productivity, ultimately saving time and resources.
• Future-Proof Design: Engineered to retrofit most older saws and accommodate future advancements, the DX3 ensures long-term reliability and performance, protecting your investment for years to come.

About Laguna Tools

Laguna Tools is a leading manufacturer of premium woodworking machinery, renowned for its commitment to innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction. With a comprehensive range of products designed to meet the needs of professional woodworkers and hobbyists alike, Laguna Tools continues to set the standard for excellence in the woodworking industry.

For more information, visit lagunatools.com.

Productive Machines made its core technology available in a fully automated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. Productive Machines’ pioneering SenseNC Finesse software is the world’s first to provide automated optimization of all milling operations, enabling manufacturers to set up each machine tool and run the production preventing chatter vibrations at every cutter location across the toolpath.

The software uses an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to optimize machine processes and is deployed at more than ten major manufacturers already, including Renault and MASA Aerospace. By making it available as an automated SaaS product, Productive Machines aims to help many more manufacturers globally eliminate trial and error iterations on machine tools, reduce waste and deliver better products faster.

Machines configured with Productive Machines’ have demonstrated the ability to produce parts in half the original time, significantly improve surface quality, and reduce waste by up to 25 percent. Users have reported a substantial decrease in tooling costs, up to 20 percent, on optimized machines.

SenseNC Finesse is now available to manufacturers using Siemens NX CAM software via a software plug-in, enabling them to improve the performance of existing machines within their chosen CAM environment. Productive Machines will launch a plug-in for Mastercam users this summer and make its software available to users of CAM software from other vendors in the coming months.

About Productive Machines

Productive Machines is making autonomous machine tool process optimization more accessible to manufacturers. It uses AI to predict and mitigate the influence of harmful vibrations in milling processes, enabling manufacturers to reduce lead times and improve quality, productivity and sustainability. Spun-out from The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in 2021, investors in Productive Machines include Boeing HorizonX Ventures, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), Innovate UK, Fuel Ventures,  NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance and ACT Venture Partners. Its technology is already used by major manufacturing companies, including Renault, MASA Aerospace and AML.

For more information, please visit productivemachines.co.uk.

Verisurf Software, Inc., and Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence have entered a metrology solutions agreement. Under the agreement, Verisurf will offer complete metrology solutions that combine its popular model-based inspection and measurement software, training, and live technical support with proven Hexagon portable CMMs. Customers can now receive single-source consultation, quoting, transactional support, and relationship management for complete best-in-class metrology solutions.

Verisurf software combined with Hexagon portable CMMs delivers automated, time-saving workflows with repeatable process control, a major tenet of quality management. Verisurf is the only measurement software built on a full-featured 3D CAD/CAM platform committed to intelligent Model-Based Definition (MBD). This lets users perform measurement workflows in a seamless CAD environment and maintains model-based digital continuity. The Verisurf Device Interface (VDI) communicates with and operates all Hexagon portable CMMs to measure and collect data with industry-leading precision.

Hexagon portable CMMs, including laser trackers, portable arms, and scanners, are recognized worldwide for their quality, precision, and reliability. With Verisurf software driving the measurement and inspection workflow, customers receive the best total solution.

Verisurf’s modular software enables unparalleled flexibility, supporting all 3D metrology applications, utilizing a consistent interface across all devices, and extending process control throughout the product realization process. Verisurf is also available in application suite configurations where modules are combined and paired with the appropriate Hexagon CMM as a turn-key solution to specific applications.

Here are a couple of popular combinations:

• Hexagon Absolute 7-Axis Scan Arm Powered by Verisurf Inspection & Analysis Suite
•  Hexagon Leica Absolute Tracker AT960 Powered by Verisurf Tool Building & Inspection Suite

About Verisurf Software, Inc.

Verisurf Software, Inc. is a measurement solutions company committed to delivering advanced surface analysis, quality inspection, assembly guidance, and reverse engineering. Verisurf products and processes are vital to maintaining a digital thread between design, engineering, manufacturing, and finished part validation. Based on a powerful CAD platform, Verisurf is committed to Model-Based Definition (MBD), open standards, and interoperability with all coordinate measuring machines and CAD software. Verisurf solutions help manufacturers produce higher-quality products in less time.

For more information about Verisurf, visit https://www.verisurf.com.

About Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies.

For more information about Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, visit https://hexagon.com.

Fictiv announced a new hybrid injection molding solution for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who need the best possible tooling craftsmanship for reliable nearshore production. Through Fictiv’s global manufacturing network, OEMs can seamlessly order high-quality, production-grade tools manufactured in China in as fast as 4 weeks and then transferred to Mexico. This service provides the best total cost of ownership for molding in Mexico, including expert tool packaging and transfer to Mexico from China, bringing together the best of all worlds.

Fictiv’s nearshore injection molding solution offers unprecedented global supply chain flexibility to optimize for cost and speed.

This solution comes at a time when manufacturing companies are facing intense pressure to reduce costs and expand margins while simultaneously addressing global supply chain risks. According to research, 51% of manufacturing leaders reported in 2023 a desire to increase nearshoring as part of their global supply chain strategy.

This new offering from Fictiv provides customers unprecedented global supply chain flexibility and enables companies to increase their supply chain stability, lower tooling costs, reduce tariffs and shipping costs, and increase supply chain speed.

Setting up supply chains in new global regions is typically a very time and cash-intensive investment for manufacturing companies that can be prohibitive. Through its global network of highly-vetted manufacturing partners, digital quote-to-order platform, and regional teams around the world, Fictiv simplifies the process of setting up new supply chains, providing a faster, more economical path to market for manufacturing companies of all sizes.

Fictiv’s new injection molding solution offers the following features and services:

• Production-grade steel tools are produced overseas as fast as 4 weeks.
• Nearshore part production as fast as 5 days.
• PPAP quality analysis performed by Fictiv’s tooling engineers.
• In-depth DFM analysis from Fictiv’s manufacturing engineering team.
• Highly-vetted & managed injection molding suppliers.
• Continual, hands-on support from Fictiv manufacturing engineers & program managers.
• On-the-ground support from Fictiv quality and logistics experts globally.
• Access to Fictiv’s online platform for fast, easy quoting and order management.

About Fictiv

Fictiv is a global manufacturing company that simplifies sourcing for custom manufacturing, from prototype to low-volume production. Through its highly-vetted manufacturing network, AI-powered technology platform, and global operations centers across the USA, Mexico, India, and China, Fictiv delivers fast, high-quality custom manufacturing services from quote to delivery. Fictiv’s capabilities span the full mechanical bill of materials, including injection molding, compression molding, 3D printing, CNC machining, die casting, and sheet metal.

For more information, visit www.fictiv.com.