Data-Driven Manufacturing

Collaborative Robot Software Provides Real-Time Data

The version 5.2 expansion of Rethink Robotics’ Intera software platform provides manufacturers with real-time data insights with its Sawyer collaborative robots.

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Siemens Partners with Identify3D for Manufacturing IP Theft Protection

ID3D has integrated its security and traceability technology into the Sinumerik CNC and Siemens PLM portfolio for data encryption and decryption.

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What’s Your Place in the Future of Making?

Autodesk’s annual user conference shed light on a machine shop’s place in an era of democratized, automated product development and merged design and manufacturing workflows.  

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Siemens’ MindSphere to Be Hosted on Amazon Web Services

The company is pursuing an AWS-first approach as it prepares to make the latest version of its Platform-as-a-Service in early 2018.

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Automation

CECIMO Reports Positive Economic Trends, Focuses on AI Infrastructure

The European machine tool builder association reports that its members experienced a smaller sales downturn in 2016 compared with the global average.

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The Move to Data-Driven Manufacturing Is a Positive Transformation

It will not be easy, but the transformation will be manageable and rewarding. The first step is machine monitoring.

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Renishaw Collaborates with Identify3D on Securing AM Processes

The goal is to protect digital intellectual property, enforce production rules and provide traceability in the digital supply chain for Renishaw’s AM systems.

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Five-Axis

DMG MORI Presents Davis Technology Days

Attendees saw the U.S. premier of two five-axis machining centers. They also saw vertical machining centers and the company’s advanced machine tool factory. 

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Online Marketplace Helps Shops Stay at Maximum Capacity

Orderfox.com provides a global database connecting buyers and sellers of CNC machining services.

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The Link Between Gaging and Tool Cost Savings

New software delivers the next step for Renishaw’s programmable gaging system: a mechanism for changing cutting tools when they are truly at the end of their life, not after an arbitrary number of pieces have been run.

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