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How Do Media Affect Your Business?
Give us feedback in the 2016 Media in Manufacturing Survey to influence how we present manufacturing-related content. Thank you!
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Try Humor to Connect to Younger Manufacturers on Social Media
Shop Floor Automations is trying something new: a Web comic intended to catch the attention of up-and-coming machinists on social media.
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Top Shops Profile: C&M Machining
C&M Machining was the 2016 Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of business strategies.
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Clearing Weldment Machining Challenges
Rather than replacing an old horizontal boring mill with a similar model, this manufacturer of stone-cutting equipment now uses a dual-pallet HMC with a quill spindle to provide W-axis extension to reach past weldment obstructions and more effectively machine critical weldment features.
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Integrated Waterjet Expands Laser Cutting Potential
Designed for small, intricate features like turbine blade cooling holes, technology that fuses water and light virtually eliminates the traditional drawbacks of laser cutting without compromising the benefits.
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Data-Driven Manufacturing Deconstructed
"Data-Driven Manufacturing" can be broken into three areas for better understanding: the conceptual, the technical and the practical.
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The Role of Employee Incentives in Successful Automation
This shop doesn’t emphasize lights-out production so much as leveraging automation while the lights are still on. One key to this is a wage and compensation plan that rewards employees for maximizing automation’s impact.
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Video: Cub Manufacturing, Another Student-Run Shop
The success of a student-run high school manufacturing business in Wisconsin is leading other school systems to launch similar programs.
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Treating Tablets Like Tools
Industrial vending systems keep cutting tools and other items organized. Why not mobile devices, too?
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Chip Removal Chamber of Horrors
This case history from Mastercam is appropriately themed for Halloween.
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Waterjet Intensifier Pump Reduces Water, Power, Abrasive Usage
Jet Edge’s 100-hp, 75-kW X-Stream xP90-100 waterjet intensifier pump supports 75-KSI (5,200 bar) continuous operating pressure.
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Italian IIOT: Cautious but Confident
Although The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) was a popular topic at Bi-Mu, the biennial machining and manufacturing exhibition in Milan, Italy, technology suppliers seem to have adopted a cautious outlook.
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