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Don’t Forget Technology
The challenges facing manufacturing are overstated if we don’t allow for technology’s role in the solution.
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How to Handle Water-Damaged Electrical Equipment
In the wake of Hurricane Irene, the East Coast will face many issues as it starts down the road to recovery. Here is one resource that manufacturers might find of use.
Read MoreIron Man Comes to Manufacturing
Steady camera technology developed for the entertainment industry is finding its way into manufacturing facilities.
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Laser Sintering and EDM: Complementary Processes?
An EDM machine from GF AgieCharmilles proves effective in separating laser-sintered parts from their base plate.
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Transforming Industrial Robots into Precision Machine Tools
Robots fitted with an adaptive control system get real-time course corrections throughout the machining cycle.
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A Venue to Sell Your Machining Expertise
Shops go to trade shows to look for new technology. They go to purchasing fairs to look for new customers—customers that need the services of a shop with the right technology. The next Contract Manufacturing Purchasing Fair, which will take place in Chicago, September 7-8, 2011, is that kind of the event.
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June Machine Tool Sales Higher Than Last Year
June 2011 saw 39.9 percent more machines sold than in June 2010.
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The Other Two and a Half Men
Here’s how one shop learned to add automation rather than extra employees.
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Why the Y?
See how Y-axis toolholders enable Swiss-type lathes to realize better chip control.
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Coming Soon: Universal, CAM-Independent Cutting Tool Library
Software relying on the ISO standards for cutting tools aims to dramatically simplify tool selection.
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Kids These Days…
A recent survey points to bad attitude as one of the chief difficulties in finding and hiring skilled workers. Could there be something to the view that society has somehow failed to impart in young people the characteristics that made older generations so successful?
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Sizing up the Digital Optical Comparator
A digital optical comparator uses a CAD file instead of a template or overlay film. More importantly, the digital comparator not only measures dimensions, but it also actively compares the measurements with nominal values, thus making it truly a gage for accepting or rejecting a part.
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