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74 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST February/March 2018 New Products in achieving productivity targets due to a workforce skills gap. Therefore, we wanted to support manufacturers with user-friendly sinker EDMs that provide versatile, high-performance machining with dependable reliability at a competitive value.” The EDGE-Series sinker EDMs feature an integral rise-and-fall work tank designed with excellent un- obstructed access to the work zone for setups, which greatly improves visibility to monitor the machining processes. The machines include an eight-station automatic tool-changer (ATC) to extend unattended operation, and fully support robotic automation for greater unattended operations. The machines are equipped with critical safety features, such as flame sensor and fire extinguisher systems, that are integrated and monitored by the machine control. The EDGE2 and EDGE3 are configured with a variety of productive, adaptive EDM technolo- gies to efficiently handle virtually any task while reducing machining time Smart Apps for Smart- phones —Renishaw Renishaw, a world-leading engi- neering technologies company, has developed a range of smartphone apps for users of their machine tool probing hardware. The GoProbe is an enabling technology embedded in the latest Renishawmacro-based software packages. Together with associated training materials and user reference tools, this technology is designed to make Renishaw machine tool probes and tool setters easy to use. Key to the simplicity of GoProbe is its program- ming format, which consists solely of a single-line command. This eliminates the need for extensive knowledge of machine codes and programming techniques.