CNC West Feb March 2019

CNC WEST February/March 2019 www.CNC-West.com 69 Industry News Bohn said, “My goal is to take an active approach in shaping digital transformation and manufacturing in the future. TDMSystems was, and is, a pioneer in digitalization. The company brings together in-depth manufacturing and software expertise. I would like to think that those are my strengths as well.” KENT USA Celebrates 40th Year In 1979, Kent Industrial USA Inc started with a line of precision surface grinders focused on delivering quality, value, and service to the metal working industry from small job shops to large manufacturing enterprises. Today, the company offers con- ventional and CNC models of knee mills, bed mills, tool room lathes, oil country lathes, bandsaws, sinker and wire-cut EDM, in addition to surface grinders, cylindrical grinders, center- less grinders, and tool & cutter grind- ers - with more than 20,000 machines sold globally. Company CEO, Bill Young, attributes their steady success to partnering with the best people and companies in the industry, and having a “We succeed when our customers succeed” mentality. The challenge in the future is global and technologically intensive. Appli- cations and their solutions are more and more complex each day. Kent CNC, a division of Kent USA, focuses on the CNC market with products and solutions geared toward more complex machining works with 5-axis machin- ing centers, large double column gantry machining centers, turning centers with mill-turn capabilities, dual spindles and dual turrets, CNC grinders, and indus- trial robot automations for machine tending applications. Located in Tustin, California, Kent USA has been steadily growing its roster of industry experienced and customer-centric sales and support en- gineers. On average, senior staffs have over 20 years of hands-on industry experience, to help customers achieve “effective - sustainable - growth” which is the company’s guiding pur- pose for its employee and customers.