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Shop Manager Shows This Video to Help Employees Focus

The shop’s team members “need to understand their responsibility to our stakeholders to be productive in an extremely competitive global market,” he says. Distractions such as headphones work against this, because our brains cannot really multitask.

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A Cybersecurity Assurance Program to Help Protect the IIoT

UL’s Cybersecurity Assurance Program for industrial control systems promises to help developers of network-connectable products test them for security weaknesses or software vulnerabilities.

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Additive for Fixturing, Machine Tool Components

Additive Manufacturing is being used for more than prototyping these days. Here are two examples of how a machine shop might leverage this technology.

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Measurement

Measurement Products Provide Digital Connectivity

This month’s Modern Equipment Review Spotlight focuses on equipment and software for measurement and inspection.

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Automation

Five Steps to Choosing a Conveyor

Based on the most frequently asked questions directed at Dorner Mfg. Corp., the company made an infographic that details various configurations and options to consider.

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Integrating Additive Manufacturing without Inhibiting Machining

CNC machining is the superior process for dimensional precision. Can AM be added to the machine tool without compromising this strength?

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Making History with the Right Technology

An Acu-Rite digital readout has helped turn what is truly a legacy milling machine into one capable of making history—literally. The results will keep a restoration project afloat at a maritime museum in San Francisco.

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Print, Like Manufacturing, Is Changing

Modern Machine Shop employees tour Publishers Press and draw connections between the challenges of manufacturing and print.

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Today’s Overkill May Be Tomorrow’s Competitive Edge

In the process of significantly advancing on-machine probing capabilities, this shop has set itself up to achieve future goals as well.

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It's Time to Educate the Next Generation–Manufacturing Competitions Receive Support from Companies at SkillsUSA

The depiction of manufacturing jobs as dirty and undesirable may soon be a thing of the past. How are manufacturing companies showing their interest in getting more students into the field?

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Economics

Gardner Business Index: Metalworking June 2016 – 44.4

Decelerating contraction in capital spending is a positive sign for equipment consumption.

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Capturing Captive Knowledge

Tell me if you’ve established a means for culling your experienced machinists’ shopfloor knowledge before they retire.

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