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March MBI Highest Since June 2014
The Metalworking Business Index (MBI) has been growing for that past 15 consecutive months.
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Improving Lighting Quality, Lowering Lighting Costs
Learn about the benefits this manufacturer realized by moving to LED lighting.
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Video: Additive Manufacturing and the Gun Fallacy
This installment in a video series debunking 3D printing misconceptions looks at the notion that the technology is dangerous because it can be used to make firearms.
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Changing up From a Manual to an Automatic Pallet Changing System
A Michigan manufacturer describes its progress with pallet-changing systems, advancing from manual to automatic pallet-switching on its VMCs.
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Modular Turning Center Equipped with Eight Spindles
Index will demonstrate its MS22C-8, a modular eight-spindle automatic CNC turning machine suitable for fast machining, especially of complex parts.
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Going Live on a Vertical Lathe
For this company, investing in live tooling and a high-pressure coolant system on a pair of new CNC vertical lathes eliminated setups, increased throughput and led to safer material handling on the shop floor.
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Getting into Gearing?
Gear designers and machine programmers/operators alike will benefit by attending this training course, where they will gain an understanding of gear noise dynamics.
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Automated Coolant Concentration Management for Multiple Sumps
This system is capable of automatically managing as many as 10 machine sumps from one drum of chemical concentrate.
Read MoreSupply-Side Robotics
It’s not just the promise of automation that drives robot adoption, but also the cost of the technology. Will price declines bring about much more widespread use of robots in manufacturing?
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Adaptable Automation
A system for automatically swapping both workpieces and workholding enables a robot-loaded VMC to be quickly reconfigured for a new or modified job. The same system lets the robot change jobs in the midst of an unattended run. Thanks to the extra capacity from unattended production, the motorcycle part maker that developed this system has finally stopped shipping products late during the busiest part of its year.
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Secrets to the Art of Hand Scraping
Hand scraping of mating surfaces on a machine tool enables the surfaces to be flatter, more accurately aligned, longer wearing and freer to glide across one another. No automated or mechanical operation can match these benefits. Machine builder Okuma explains how this seeming paradox is true.
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Coming Soon: New Duratomic
On April 1, Seco launches an upgrade to its well-known workhorse coated cutting tool line.
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