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Online Marketplace for Surplus Tooling
Industrial Surplus Solutions has launched toolingmarketplace.com, an online resource to facilitate the buying and selling of surplus cutting tools.
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What’s Rotary Broaching, and How Did It Help a Robotics Team?
Rotary broaching enables CNC machines to create internal and external shapes such as squares, hexes and serrations. Slater Tool contributed its broaching technology to help a Los Angeles charter school program more effectively create components for a competition robot.
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Video: Automation Adds Jobs at Vickers Engineering
Rather than being a replacement for employees, this machined parts supplier says robotic automation has led to a doubling of the size of its staff.
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Still Thinking about a Summer Vacation?
Editor-in-chief Mark Albert would like to spend one in a machine shop, but a very different kind of machine shop. Read about it here.
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Reshoring, Robots and the New Factory Floor
Plastics processors are adopting robotics in a major way to compensate for a dwindling talent pool and reshored jobs.
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ComauFlex: Automation as Strategy
You can’t buy one. But you can buy into this approach to highly efficient automotive assembly automation.
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Roaring Out of the Recession
During the economic downturn, investments in technology and training, coupled with trimming waste in all areas of production, resulted in a stronger company with a healthier bottom line once the financial skies had cleared.
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Inside Ford Sharonville Transmission: Producing 19 Million Gears a Year
The men and women at Ford Sharonville have turned the art of gear making into a science. They make them precisely. And they make plenty of them.
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Driveline Design for Superior Gears
New software is designed to deliver increased innovation, faster time to market and improved product quality for ground vehicle, wind turbine and geared transmission manufacturers.
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Dollars and Sense
Not every streamlining project requires huge modifications to your production line. Sometimes taking a close look at how basic tasks are currently being performed can lead to simple, cost-effective improvements.
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Useful Advice for CAM Software Users
In a whitepaper, Mastercam calls useful advice for CAM software users “CAM Initiatives.” These initiatives are practical projects and procedural policies designed to help a machining company make more effective use of its CAD/CAM resources. Although primarily targeted to Mastercam users, many of these initiatives contain useful advice that benefits users of any CAM software system.
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