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FFG has announced the grand opening of its new North America Technology Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan on October 17th, and the 18th. The latest building expansion at the MAG Automotive, LLC facility is designed to highlight and demonstrate industry leading machining solutions available from several companies of the global FFG machine tool conglomerate including […]

MAG names Accurate Machine Tool Services distributor for FEELER and FFG DMC new machines, spare parts, and service throughout Wisconsin. MAG has announced a distribution partnership with Accurate Machine Tool Services (Franklin, Wisconsin). Accurate will distribute FEELER vertical and horizontal machining centers, bridge mills and boring mills, and FFG DMC horizontal and vertical turning centers throughout Wisconsin. “We

MAG-SMS (Sterling Heights, MI), a leading manufacturer of horizontal milling and vertical turning machines and applied automation solutions, is your dependable source for Fair Friend Group’s (FFG) FEELER and FFG DMC lines of machine tools throughout North America. MAG has been designing and building machine tools in Detroit, Michigan for over 160 years and is

Production systems and manufacturing technologies for chassis and powertrain of rail vehicles (click for downloadable article) Dr. Manfred Berger, MAG IAS and Dr. Leo Schreiber, BOEHRINGER The European companies of the FFG Group serve the production companies and maintenance works for chassis and drive of rail vehicles with optimal products and manufacturing technologies. A team

Digital Twins for Virtual Commissioning and their effects on projects for Agile Manufacturing Systems (click for downloadable article) Abstract The virtual commissioning of customer-specific machines (thus special purpose machines) has the greatest leverage in terms of improving product quality, costs and throughput time. Until now, model creation has been costly and uneconomical due to the