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Digital Manufacturing Game Changers at IMTS
Stay on top of the technologies poised to shake up your shop floor. Here are some of the most disruptive digital manufacturing technologies on display today.
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Microdrill Cuts Heat, Chip Buildup
With thousands of holes to drill in every part, this microdrilling application required the right strategies to overcome heat and chip buildup.
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Back to School: CNC School Co-Locates With Machine Shop
By allowing this CNC school to operate inside its facility, this machine shop benefits as much as the school does.
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Fabrication Machine Automates Production of Flat Parts
While generalized automation systems are certainly useful, sometimes narrowly focused automation is exactly what a shop needs.
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The Right (Machine) Tool for the Right Job
This high-production shop uses both mechanical and CNC Swiss machines to make parts, but which machine is right for which job?
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Putting People First: a Profitable Strategy
Treating people fairly and valuing their contributions isn't only the right thing to do. It’s also a direct path toward greater profitability, as shown by this Top Shop.
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Flexible Approaches to Gearcutting
Multitasking machine performs multiple gear-cutting processes without the need for a dedicated hobbing machine, providing high-mix gear producers with improved flexibility.
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TAITRA Event Highlights Advanced Manufacturing Strategies
At this year’s TIMTOS, the participating companies highlighted their automation and Industry 4.0 capabilities as they demonstrated a range of manufacturing technologies.
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Is It Time to Reconsider Regrinding?
The advance of automation makes in-house cutting tool regrinding more accessible. An automated measurement cycle adjusts the tool path in grinding operations to make regrinding simpler to program and easier to automate.
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New Grinding Machine Utilizes Unique Kinematics
A novel grinding machine uses three rotary tables stacked off-center to provide full control over the grinding wheel’s X and Z axis, as well as its angular position, creating an unusual solution to grinding.
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Choosing a Five-Axis Machine Tool With Automation in Mind
While much focus is placed on the machinery that moves parts, the features most important for automating five-axis machining are arguably found in the machine tool itself.
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4 Questions To Ask When Moving to Live Tooling
Live tooling is often seen as a niche solution, but there are a number of different processes that are improved by introducing live tooling.
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