Component of the month - March 2021
Our component of the month March is a valve housing made of stainless steel. It is used for a mixing valve in the beverage industry and can be used for any beverage where dry substances or liquids are combined with a carrier liquid.
Spanflug at the METAV-digital 2021
The international trade fair for metalworking technologies (METAV) will be held purely digitally in 2021. With a well thought-out concept of virtual trade fair, matchmaking and web sessions, the important exchange about new products, technologies and processes between exhibitors and visitors will also be made possible in digital format. We, too, will not miss this opportunity and will be present from 23.03-26.03.2021 [...]
New CAD formats: From now on you can upload your CAD files to Spanflug even easier
From now on, in addition to the previous file formats .stp and .step, you can also upload CAD files in the formats .CATPart (CATIA), .ipt (Autodesk Inventor), .jt , .prt (Siemens NX, PTC ProE/Creo), .sldprt (SolidWorks) and .par (Solid Edge). This makes uploading your CAD file to Spanflug even easier. We have also made the evaluation of the technical drawing for [...]
When simplicity convinces - Dürr Metall & Kunststofftechnik relies on quoting software "Spanflug MAKE"
To determine the price for turning and milling parts reliably and quickly, Dürr Metall & Kunststofftechnik from Karlsbad-Ittersbach near Karlsruhe in Baden relies on Spanflug Make.
Component of the month - January 2021
Our component of the month January is an assembly. It is part of a test rig for powder bed-based technologies developed at the Frauenhofer Institute for Additive Production Technologies IAPT.
Pushing forward digitalisation in the machine tool industry with intelligent algorithms and platform technology
VDW joins Spanflug Technologies - Start-up automates parts procurement in the manufacturing industry The VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association), Frankfurt am Main, is taking a minority stake in Munich-based Spanflug Technologies GmbH. The contract was signed in November last year. The start-up has been on the market since 2018 and was formed from the Institute for Machine Tools and [...]
Expanded offer in the online shop
From now on, we can also take into account threads according to the common US standards NPT, NPTF, UNC and UNF in the automatic price calculation, if these are stored accordingly in the technical drawing. In contrast to the metric threads commonly used in Europe, the size is specified here in inches. This means that the American standard, [...]
Batch prices for turning parts and milling parts at the click of a mouse
With our new scale price function, you can calculate prices for individually selectable scale quantities in just a few seconds. This gives you a very quick overview of the development of unit costs and allows you to plan your requirements from prototype to series production in the long term. You can then export a PDF quote and process it further. You can see how it works in our video. https://player.vimeo.com/video/657426738 [...]
How to efficiently procure larger part packages and reduce ancillary procurement costs for CNC parts by up to 90 %
In special machine construction and prototype construction, many different components often have to be procured. Here, the traditional procurement process is particularly time-consuming and inefficient. In most cases, various suppliers with different specializations have to be requested, offers evaluated and several orders processed. The effort and thus also the ancillary procurement costs are disproportionately high and often amount to up to 30 % percent of the [...]
More than 20 post-treatments for turning parts and milling parts available online
Users of the Spanflug platform can now choose from more than 20 post-treatment processes for their turned and milled parts and call up corresponding instant quotes with price and delivery time at the click of a mouse. Spanflug Technologies has significantly expanded the offering on the Spanflug manufacturing platform to include a selection of the 20 most common surface and heat treatments and coatings, such as anodizing, burnishing, hardening, [...]
