For a premiere in the USA, this road show was a success. Starrag worked closely with Ellison to communicate to customers and potentials in order to raise their interest and their curiosity ... and it worked, almost 80 visitors from 38 different companies participated to live demonstrations.

Today’s medical field requires a high dose of precision and repeatability. The requirement to manufacture complex micro size shapes is more than ever in demand! The MedTech industry is further challenged by the mix of hard metals and alloys used in its products. To overcome these challenges, Bumotec advanced technology delivers the perfect price performance ratio when grinding, milling, turning, drilling and polishing complex parts in a single cycle.

One such part that has been manufactured at the road show was the “femoral head”. Made from Chromium Cobalt, Bumotec’s approach to manufacturing a femoral head is to start with unground bar and finish the head complete in one single set up! Attendees could watch first-hand the s191FTLR machine “hands off” six sided shapes – including, grinding a spherical shape (2.5 μm) to a polished roughness RA 0.05 − without one single interruption to the machining cycle. The advantage of machining such complex shapes in a single cycle is realised through Bumotec’s seasoned know-how of maximising the performance of linear motors, direct torque drives and thermal management on a rigid machine platform. The result is unlimited precision possibilities.