Paul L. Newby II | The Grand Rapids Press One of two robotic arms of the continent's largest milling machine, a double-gantry five-axis "FIDIA," creates this relief globe from a solid block of ...

Fidia designs and builds numerical controls and high-speed milling machine systems for the production of complex-shaped parts for the automotive, aerospace and energy markets.

A Grand Rapids, Mich., company reports it recently installed a new milling machine it calls the largest of its kind in the world, capable of cutting “the entire fuselage of a fighter jet within a hair ...