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February Metalworking Index and the Impact of the Coronavirus
As efforts to counter COVID-19 affect the global supply chain, Gardner Intelligence is carefully tracking their potential impact on the industry.
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4 Things to Incorporate in CAM-System-Generated CNC Programs
Streamline G-code programs created by CAM systems.
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Robots Get Hand-Eye Coordination
Artificial vision, touch and intelligence help collaborative robots cope with the unpredictable.
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Taking an Automated Aerospace Approach
A flexible manufacturing system helps an Indiana job shop run a high mix of aerospace work for long stretches of time and function more like a contract shop.
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Continuous Improvement Must Be Continuous
It’s easy to do the work to improve your facility and then want to sit back to see how things go. Unfortunately, this leads to complacency, which is hard to overcome.
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3D Printing’s Value-Add Keeps Adding Up
Additive manufacturing impacts every stage of production at this flexible yet highly automated CNC machining business.
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Modern Is Everywhere
The manufacturing community is spread across a multitude of businesses around the world. 91ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ÎÛ goes to where the stories are — talking with job shops, cutting tool manufacturers, machine tool builders, OEMs, service providers and more. Follow the story of manufacturing wherever it leads.
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Can the Skills Gap Be Solved?
Getting sophisticated manufacturing back into high schools will help students find it a desirable career path instead of a vocation of last resort.
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CNC Machine Shop Captures Its Conversations
This shop found a way to make job quoting a better, faster process. The next step was improving shop communication.
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New CMMs Gather More Data, Faster, for Automotive QC Department
Continental’s single-touch-probe CMM was bogging down quality control and limiting the information the company could glean for safety inspections. Two Altera CMMs from LK Metrology cut cycle times and increased insight.
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Small Shop Achieves Logistical Autonomy with MES
A small laser shop depended on its parent company for invoicing while the shop manager had to juggle both orders and manufacturing. Workplan helped the shop become autonomous.
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Rotary Broaching: Making Hard Materials Look Easy
Rotary broaches manufactured with a proprietary hardening process can cut material as hard as 50 HRC with minimal tool wear, improving the production process for medical screws and other components.
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