red and black

Some black and red hands coming off of the Fortus...

innovation accelerator: welding area and cmc plasma cutter

There was a really nice room that was placed inside the machine shop that was sectioned off for welding, plasma cutting and grinding operations complete with downdraft tables.

innovation accelerator: solidworks and mastercam workstations

innovation accelerator: surface grinder, manual equipment, and workspace

innovation accelerator: cnc router

innovation accelerator: faro arm

innovation accelerator: samsung lathe and sodick edm machines

innovation accelerator: hurcos

The shop at Accelerator also contains two Hurco milling machines. One of the machines as a trunnion table and is capable of 5 axis movement like you see in the video above. The other machine is a larger VM30. Wouldn't be nice to have one of these... or both?

innovation accelerator: fortus

I took a tour of UWM's Innovation Accelerator Building on Wednesday. It's impressive space with many research labs including a few spaces that are leased to local institutions and businesses like Brooks Stevens Design for example. One of my colleagues, Jay, had been telling me for a while about the impressive prototyping facility that was going to be happening in the space. He had shared lists of equipment that would be present in the facility, but I wasn't prepared for the physical space with all of the equipment when I toured the facility on Wednesday. In the next few post, I'll share some of the highlights. The images above shows the Fortus 400mc that is visible from outside the lab as you walk past the window. It has a large print surface...