Articles

Metal Additive Manufacturing Delivers Spare Parts on Demand

A powder-bed metal AM machine enables a manufacturer to deliver spare parts to beverage-filling plant customers as they are needed.

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Basics

When Digital Becomes Analog

Today’s digital displays look almost like real analog meters and can provide the same dynamic sensing.

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Basics

7 Suggestions for Process Documentation

Drawings that include these seven details can help clarify specific operations.

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Job Shop’s Peg System Simplifies CMM Inspection

A work positioning device deals with job variety while still allowing less experienced employees to inspect parts on their own.

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Automation

Machining, Manufacturing Technology on Display in Pfronten

Automation, additive manufacturing, five-axis machining and more was on display at DMG MORI’s recent open house at its Pfronten, Germany, campus.

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Laser & Waterjet

Fiber Laser Markers Do Much, Much More

Fiber laser technology is not just for marking—used properly, it can alleviate the burden on milling, EDM and welding equipment.

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Five-Axis

Ultrasonic Technology Poised for Advance into General Machining

Formerly applied only to exotic materials such as ceramics and gemstones, ultrasonic machining has been adapted to more general manufacturing. Titanium and CFRP are two workpiece materials in which the counterintuitive technology shows promise.

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Cutting Tools

Manufacturing News of Note: March 2017

Siemens launches a workforce development program, a new capacity-sharing platform gets funded by GE and other industry news.

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Do's and Don'ts of Finishing Metal 3D-Printed Parts

Finishing 3D-printed parts requires different considerations than conventionally machined ones. One expert offers tips.

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Grinding

Seen in a Sidebar

Although one of my recent stories focused on peel grinding, it also included a sidebar about an alternate through-coolant grinding wheel dresser. READ MORE

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Workholding

Wire EDM Offers More Than Just Precision

Among other benefits, these two shops have saved significant production time by using wire EDM for part-cutoff operations previously conducted on bandsaws.

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A Waterjet Machining Center that Fits

At first, abrasive waterjet machines were naturally at home in the fabricating shop. Today, certain models resemble a typical, fully enclosed CNC machine and they fit well in a machining job shop setting.

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