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Tips for Designing CNC Programs That Help Operators
The way a G-code program is formatted directly affects the productivity of the CNC people who use them. Design CNC programs that make CNC setup people and operators’ jobs easier.
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Metalworking Activity Stayed Consistent in July
Metalworking activity hung together better in July, with all but one GBI component contracting.
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Process Control — Leveraging Machine Shop Connectivity in Real Time
Renishaw Central, the company’s new end-to-end process control software, offers a new methodology for producing families of parts through actionable data.
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From Tradition to Transformation: Century-Old Manual Machine Shop Adds CNCs
After 122 years of working with manual mills and lathes, this fifth-generation shop acquired assets of a local CNC machining business and hired the owner. Here’s how it’s going a year later.
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Electronic Bore Gage Automates Bore Data Acquisition
This new portable gage provides precision measurement and verification of custom parts with integrated data collection.
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The Link Between CNC Process Control and Powertrain Warranties
Ever since inventing the touch-trigger probe in 1972, Sir David McMurtry and his company Renishaw have been focused on achieving process control over its own manufacturing operations. That journey has had sweeping consequences for manufacturing at large.
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Rethink Quality Control to Increase Productivity, Decrease Scrap
Verifying parts is essential to documenting quality, and there are a few best practices that can make the quality control process more efficient.
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How Summer Heat is Affecting Your Parts
All machines have thermal shift. Follow these tips to keep your tolerances tight even as shop temperatures flucatuate in the warmer months.
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Inverting Turning and Five-Axis Milling at Famar
Automation is only the tip of the iceberg for Famar, which also provides multitasking options for its vertical lathes and horizontal five-axis machine tools.
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5 Big Themes in Additive Manufacturing at Formnext Forum: Austin
Formnext Forum: Austin, a two-day event at the end of August focused on additive manufacturing for production, includes a conference exploring important ideas in AM related to supply chains, bridge production, enterprise transformation and more.
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Horizontal High-Speed Machining Saves Hundreds of Work Hours
High-speed machining is the latest change at Blair-HSM South, helping this once old-fashioned shop improve productivity and morale while enabling new work.
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Kicking RaaS with Robotics as a Service
Robotics as a service (RaaS) enabled Behrens Manufacturing to quickly address a severe worker shortage while maintaining its ability to invest in new metal forming equipment.
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