DN Solutions’ recent DIMF 2025 exhibition, held at the BEXCO Exhibition Centre in Busan, South Korea from 2nd April to 5th April 2025, was a landmark event attracting over 5,000 visitors.
Checking out the latest innovations and ‘technologies for the future’ on view from one of the world’s leading machine tool companies, were key representatives from Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of DN Solutions’ machine tools in the UK and Ireland.
A number of senior managers from Mills CNC have just returned from their visit to DIMF 2025, DN Solutions’ biennial machine tool exhibition, held at the BEXCO Exhibition Centre in Busan, South Korea from 2nd April – 5th April 2025.
With over 50 different advanced machine tools, automation systems and software developments on view, DIMF 2025 proved to be a seminal event and provided DN Solutions’ extensive network of domestic and international dealers and distributors with a preview of the company’s future direction of travel and a ‘first look’ at a number of new, innovative and productivity-boosting technologies that DN Solutions will be introducing into its key Asian, European and American markets in the near future.
DIMF 2025, with its ‘Automation Solutions Platform for all Machining Processes’ theme, certainly did not disappoint.
“The event was a real eye-opener and had two primary objectives.
“As well as providing an ideal platform to showcase new and upgraded advanced machine tools, automation systems and digital solutions to distributors and dealers, DIMF 2025 was also used by DN Solutions as a ‘positioning’ event to demonstrate and hammer home the scope and scale of the company’s ambitions, its impressive R & D capabilities and its ability to design and deliver high-end, integrated machining solutions for, and across, all machining processes.”
Tony Dale, Group CEO of Mills CNC
New machine tool technologies and solutions that, from a UK and Irish customer perspective, were perhaps not immediately or typically associated with DN Solutions i.e., its DLX series of Additive Manufacturing (AM) machines and its DNC range of high-accuracy quartz grinding horizontal turning centres, as well as the company’s new Laser Waterjet and Friction Stir Welding technologies etc., were out in force, rubbing shoulders with the DN Solutions’ more ‘familiar’ and traditional machine tool technologies.
The new machine tool line-up was, as one might expect, both extensive and impressive with pride of place going to DN Solutions’ recently-introduced DVF 5000 (Second-Generation) series of simultaneous 5-axis machining centres, and its new DNX range of entry-level, multi-tasking mill-turn machines, that will be available from Mills later in the year.
New built-in turret motor technology improvements to its best-selling Puma 2600SY lathe series, making the machines faster, more responsive and more productive, were showcased as was a new range of 5-axis horizontal machining centres.
As the event’s theme suggests, DIMF 2025 was not just about showcasing new DN Solutions’ machine tools – and the emphasis on innovative automation systems and solutions, was plain for all to see.
Machine tools integrated with automated pallet systems, gantry loaders and bar feeders demonstrated how continuous production, achieved through lights-out, unattended operations, can dramatically improve every component manufacturer’s productivity, production efficiencies and overall competitiveness.
Just as important as the machine tools and automation systems on view were DN Solutions’ advanced and customised software developments which included:
- DPMS (DN Production Management System) operating software that helps component manufacturers organise, monitor and optimise their entire machining processes.
- iDOO RMS+ (AI Remote Monitoring System), that allows manufacturers to remotely monitor their machines’ performance and efficiency, in real time.
Other highlights, including Digital Twin Technology and DN Solutions’ machine tools operating with the latest CNC control systems from Heidenhain (TNC 7) and Siemens (Sinumerik One), as well as the company’s own CUFOS control, with its intuitive, smartphone-based user interface, all provided a prescient glimpse into the future of CNC machining and SMART factory technology.
“DIMF 2025 was inspirational and provided attendees with a unique opportunity to see, first hand and in advance, DN Solutions’ next-generation machine tools, automation systems and software developments – many of which will be introduced (by Mills) into the UK and Irish markets in the coming weeks and months.
“The event also helped reinforce DN Solutions’ global ambitions and its commitment to design, develop and manufacture advanced technology solutions for a diverse range of industry sectors and machining processes.
“DIMF 2025, set against a backdrop of rising market uncertainties, tariffs and disruptions to international and domestic supply chains, reinforced the need for component manufacturers, in these turbulent times, to invest in advanced DN Solutions’ technologies as a route to increase their productivity and process efficiencies and improve their overall competitiveness.”
Tony Dale, Group CEO of Mills CNC