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Measurement

Mitutoyo Opening New Solution Center in Michigan

The applications center is intended to be conveniently located to meet the needs of Mitutoyo’s regional customers in the automotive industry.

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EDM

New Tech, New Talent at GF Machining

This year’s annual open house marked the debut of not only a new series of wire EDMs, but also an apprenticeship program designed to serve as a pipeline of application and service engineers for years to come.

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Automation

Lang Technovation Launches Manufacturing Blog

The blog is scheduled to post quarterly with commentary, insights, smart manufacturing concepts and industry updates.

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Bringing Automation to a Job Shop

A father-daughter team hopes to see big gains from the combination of a new HMC and a pallet-handling system to be installed later this year.

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Automation

Old Machines Are Also Automation Candidates: 40-Year-Old Machine Adapted into Unattended System

Integrating an automatic positioner with a formerly manual jig borer brings increased efficiency to secondary operations.

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Measurement

Hot Temperatures (and Technologies) at Eastec 2017

Eastec’s peculiar Massachusetts venue offered the chance to sample a broad variety of advanced manufacturing technologies. Here is a slideshow and some impressions from the trade show.

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Making Connections at Innovation Days

Among other highlights, this year’s iteration of DMG MORI’s annual open house event showcased the company’s latest efforts to connect traditionally disparate machining operations, both in the physical sense and the virtual sense.

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Automation

Robotiq Offers Free Preprogrammed Robot Templates

The company expects to release a new free template every week.

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Automation

Robotics Orders, Shipments Soar in North America

Robotics orders and shipments saw great increases in the first quarter of 2017, notably in welding, automotive components and metals applications.

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Five-Axis

Entry-Level Option for Machine Automation

This new modular handling system for Hermle machine tools is designed for shops that don’t necessarily need a complex and expensive robotic system, and it converts stand-alone machines into flexible manufacturing cells.

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