Articles
Closed-Loop Gear Production
A familiar concept is now gaining serious traction, enabling manufacturers to develop closed-loop cells that automatically match the finished product to design concept goals.
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Divisions Achieve Synergy Making Gears, Repairing Gearboxes
In addition to offering gearbox maintenance and repair services, this company is an OEM of new gears, harnessing the synergy between the two somewhat disparate divisions to the benefit of the overall enterprise.
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Get out the Vote for Manufacturing Education
A group of local manufacturers is pairing with teams from various high schools on a video competition that aims to educate students, teachers and parents about industry career opportunities. Today is the last day to vote!
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Freedom in Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing
The wire-fed EBAM process offers flexibility in part geometry and size—as well as material properties.
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Waterjet, Laser, or EDM... or Another Option?
The pros and cons of each process have been covered before, but at least one supplier’s technology bucks the trend.
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Improving a Popular Mill-Turn Control
Gear hobbing capabilities, enhanced graphics and the ability to perform interpolation turning have been added to this well-known mill-turn control.
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The Subtle Clue That a Spindle Is About to Fail
A shop that regularly replaces its spindles found the indicator predicting when this replacement would be needed.
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Amerimold: of Interest Well Beyond Mold Manufacturing
Amerimold, the event for mold manufacturing, takes place June 15-16 in Novi, Michigan, at the Suburban Collection Showplace. Specific topics include mold design; lights-out machining; shopfloor automation; tooling and workholding; EDM; five-axis machining; mold maintenance; and material selection.
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Will Additive Manufacturing Subtract from Machining?
A panel discussion captured on video addresses this question.
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Video: Tools Making Tools
One episode of the Discovery Channel’s “How It’s Made” focuses on the manufacture of industrial cutting tools.
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Like Playing Air Hockey on Your CMM
But not really. A new air-assist fixturing capability helps CMM operators glide heavy workpieces into place for part inspection.
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MakeTime Revises Its Model
The platform where shops list their open capacity no longer requires bidding. MakeTime itself now does the costing, calculating a price for buyers and sellers to choose to accept.
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