Advanced Machine & Engineering Co.
Rockford, IL 61103
Amrok® Custom Dedicated Milling Fixtures
Solves Multiple Machining Challenges on 5000 Lb. Pump Housings, While Saving Cost And 50% Of The Set-up Time Weir Minerals North America, a Madison, Wisconsin manufacturer of large pumps for mining slurry applications, needed large 108 W x 108 H pump housing Class 40 iron castings machined, including milling, drilling and boring. Each pump housing consisted of a frame and cover section, each...
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Amrok Dedicated Manual Fixtures
Advanced Machine & Engineering Co., (AME) Rockford, IL announces Amrok Dedicated Manual Fixtures. Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. can design and build Amrok ready-to-use dedicated manual fixtures from the ground up for horizontal and vertical machining centers and other CNC machinery. AME's services include machining tombstones to designing per customer specification. The company can provide...
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Micro Clamps can be used for dedicated fixtures.
Triag Micro Clamps feature dowel pins or precision dowel screws to provide precise positioning. Vise modules have high work piece density per given machine envelope and deliver 900-4,600 lb of clamping force. Compact, low profile, and flexible units come with smooth or serrated, hardened, and ground jaws or soft jaws. Parallels, locating stops, and variety of other accessories are also available.
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Combined Saw/Drill cuts rails for railroad industry.
Used for high-production cutting of ferrous and nonferrous metals, Amsaw R series offers blade changeover time under 3 min, hardened spindle gears ground for minimum backlash, as well as saw blade guide and dampening device. Dry operation means no coolant is needed, double and triple measurement strokes accommodate extra-length cuts, and clamp to unclamp time is 32 sec. For safety, electronic...
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AME Designs, Builds Amrok Dedicated Manual Fixtures
Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME) can design and build Amrok ready-to-use dedicated manual fixtures from the ground up for horizontal and vertical machining centers and other CNC machinery. AME's services include machining tombstones to designing per customer specification. The company can provide tombstones with edge locating, hardened and ground wear pads, center locating or just...
Read More »Pneumatic Rod Lock features power-off clamping.
Constructed of anodized aluminum with carboxylated nitrile seal, Amlok RLN features heavy-duty clamp system, providing holding forces from 200-2,650 lb. Unit accommodates rod diameters from 0.625-1.75 in., and cylinder and bore diameters from 1.5-6 in. Using dry-filtered air, rod lock has release pressure from 60-160 psi with max load tolerance of +0.000 in./-0.002 in. Amlok RLN is suited for...
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Rod Clamps retain load on hydraulic power or pump failure.
Developed to provide power-off clamping of rods and shafts, AMLOK-® Hydraulic Series RCH Rod Clamps are actuated by spring/collet mechanism and unclamped by hydraulic pressure. With ability to lock reciprocating motions only, units are designed to clamp components after motion has stopped and to hold position securely as long as forces do not exceed table values. Clamps consist of alloy steel...
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AME Introduces Clamping Products from Jakob Antriebstechnik
Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME) is introducing several new workholding clamping products from Jakob Antriebstechnik, the company's European partner. The series MC power clamping nut offers simple manual operation, high clamping forces through force magnification and high operating safety, as a result of a self-locking feature. The clamping force ranges from 40 to 160 kN. This product...
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Rotary Unions are designed for optimized coolant flow.
Rated for 24,000 rpm max spindle speed and 80 bar max coolant pressure, OTT-Jakob GDR single-passage rotary unions are designed for OTT-Jakob power drawbars found in machine tools with high-speed spindle and in which machine tool feeds coolant through single passage to tool. Designed to fit small unclamp units, GDP unions have hybrid bearing, balanced design, and closed sealing surface. Max...
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Safety Stops secure platens under suspended load.
Activated by weight of the dropping mass, safety catcher stops and locks dropping platen via wedge mechanism located on smooth rod that can be placed in any position. Unit can be installed on hydraulic/pneumatic presses and other machines in which dropping masses must be stopped for safety reasons. Locking capability is proportioned to dropping mass, and locking position functions for entire...
Read More »Unyielding Integrity | Building Long-lasting Business Relationships with Openness and Honesty
By: Meaghan Ziemba, Marketing Communications, MackingChips In today’s hyper-competitive, digital world, consumers have access to more information than before right at their fingertips. The bar has been raised for companies in terms of honesty, transparency, and integrity and consumers quickly dismiss those that do not meet their high expectations and standards. Companies need to be...
Read More »God Honoring | The Value at The Core of Our American Manufacturing Company
By: Nick Goellner, Managing Director, MakingChips When we Honor God, Advanced Machine & Engineering lives out ALL of our core values On November 2nd, 2018, a group of manufacturing leaders gathered for the 43rd TMA annual prayer breakfast. It was a very diverse group of businessmen and women, but they all shared something -- a desire to glorify God and boldly share their faith in Christ....
Read More »Top Trends Changing The Face of Manufacturing
By: Meaghan Ziemba, Content Creator/Community Manager, Making Chips Advanced technologies continue to revolutionize manufacturing into a highly connected, highly intelligent industry where tech-savvy workers and intelligent robots develop the products and services of the future. According to a recent survey done by IQMS Manufacturing Software, manufacturers who are implementing some or all of...
Read More »Willy Goellner Named Among '2018 - People You Should Know'
By: Meaghan Ziemba, Content Marketing Manager, AME Rockford, Illinois, USA - November 5, 2018 - Advanced Machine & Engineering (AME) and Hennig, Inc. Founder and Chairman, Willy Goellner, was named one of the 2018 People You Should Know by the Rockford Chamber of Commerce. He was one of 20 people recognized during a special reception on Thursday, November 1 at the Tebala Event Center....
Read More »National Manufacturing Day: Strengthening Manufacturing's Future
By: Meaghan Ziemba, Content Marketing Manager, AME This past October was not just about cooler weather, Halloween, and pumpkin-flavored everything. It also hosted National Manufacturing Day---an annual event that occurs the first Friday of October and plays a vital role in powering the next chapter of modern American production and innovation. The event began in 2011 and involved several...
Read More »Why The Manufacturing Industry Needs The Younger Generation to Succeed
Manufacturing: A Wonderful Path to Take Students met at Giovanni’s for a panel discussion. The panel was moderated by WTVO’s Eric Wilson and featured, Noah Goellner, VP of Global Business Operations from Hennig, Inc.; Tasha Mitchell-Wendorf, Project Manager from Ingersoll Cutting Tools; and Rebecca Whelan, Quality Inspector from Rockford Toolcraft. Mayor Tom McNamara kicked of the panel...
Read More »6 Takeaways from The Industrial Inbound Summit for Industrial Manufacturers
By: Meaghan Ziemba, Content Marketing Manager, AME I recently attended the Industrial Inbound Summit at the Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The marketing and sales conference featured an impressive lineup of speakers that provided tips and tools on how to position your manufacturing business for success in a hyper-competitive digital world. I found a lot of the information...
Read More »Participating in National Manufacturing Day Strengthens The Workforce of Tomorrow
By: Meaghan Ziemba, Content Marketing Manager, AME Marketing Director, Nick Goellner, and Marketing Technology Manager, Kaleb Mertz, from Advanced Machine & Engineering (AME), and myself visited Auburn High School in Rockford, Illinois to speak with students on National Manufacturing Day to help strengthen the manufacturing workforce of tomorrow. Goellner and Mertz spoke with Juniors and...
Read More »Governor Rauner's Keys to Making Illinois Manufacturing Advanced Again
By: Nick Goellner, Marketing Director, Advanced Machine & Engineering Support: Kaleb Mertz, Technology Manager, Advanced Machine & Engineering Manufacturers in Illinois often feel like the odds are stacked against us. There are easier places to start and grow a manufacturing business (less regulations, lower tax rates etc.), but most of us believe that change is possible here in our home...
Read More »Congresswoman Cheri Bustos Gets Hands-On with CNC Machining at AME
By: Meaghan Ziemba, Content Marketing Manager, AME Rockford, Illinois, USA - September 21, 2018 - Earlier today, Democratic Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (@RepCheri) visited Advanced Machine & Engineering to learn more about the family business and CNC machining. She also discussed some of the challenges of the manufacturing skills gap in the United States. During her visit, she toured the new...
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