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Job Shop Uses 3D Wire Bending and CNC Machining To Find Its Niche
Marshall Manufacturing melds CNC machining and 3D bending to create intricate medical components from small-diameter barstock and tubing. Customer needs spurred the shop to carve out what has become a successful medical-manufacturing niche.
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Who Won The Bike? Bob Did!
One of the things I like about IMTS is the festive, fair-like quality of what exhibitors do to draw attendees to their booths.
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Long Part, Short Machine
The system includes an unloader long enough to accommodate the machined work as it passes out the other side.
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Something Not Seen on Swiss-Types
Probing on Marubeni Citizen-Cincom Swiss-types like this enables Renishaw to better align manufacturing with true production requirements.
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Industrial Production Up 4.1% in December
Consumer durable goods industrial production in December was up 4.1 percent compared to December 2009.
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iPads Keep Shopfloor Supervisors on the Shop Floor
Watch this video to hear how Hadronics Inc. came up with the idea of using Pocketview and the E2 software on iPads.
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Four Elements of Lights-Out Turning
A lot of planning has to happen before you pull the trigger on lights-out machining.
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Machine Tool Unit Sales Up 100% in November
According to USMTC, machine tool sales in November were 99.8% (units) and 93.8% (real dollars) more than in November 2009.
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Because the Definition of “Production” is Changing
Phoenix Proto Technologies creates aluminum molds for both prototyping (like the left one with hand loads) and production (like the right one with mechanical actions). When we launched our Prototyping & Rapid Manufacturing Zone, we wanted rapid mold making to be a part of it.
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