Articles
Has Lean Become Too Extreme?
Surges in demand reveal a weakness of just-in-time supply chains.
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Improving Machine Tool Accuracy with Volumetric Compensation
The Etalon LaserTRACER from Optical Gaging Products, Inc. is designed to make it simpler and faster to measure and compensate for changes in accuracy throughout a machine’s volume.
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How Proactive is KitchenAid about Machine Maintenance?
Learn about KitchenAid’s approach to OEE in June’s cover story.
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Outsource Regionally Instead of Nationally
The logic of “offshoring” often makes more sense when there is no shore involved. Considerable savings can result from sending work to different regions of the USA.
Read MoreWhen Pigs Fly
Makino will host a Global Titanium Day on Thursday, May 20th at its Mason, Ohio Global Titanium R&D Center.
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April Industrial Production up 13%
Consumer durable goods industrial production in April was up 13.2% compared to April 2009.
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Balanced Machining Is Faster Machining
NC program optimization software initially helped Bell Helicopter’s Drive Systems Center machine titanium faster by balancing cutting forces. The manufacturer now uses it to improve cycle times for aircraft parts made from other metals, too.
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Determining Machining Effectiveness, Not Guessing It
KitchenAid uses Overall Equipment Effectiveness to determine in real numbers the impact individual machine tools have on parts production for its stand mixers. In doing so, it brings actual machining processes closer to ideal ones.
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Removing Unwanted Oil—in Coolant or in the Gulf
This floating oil skimmer uses Abanaki’s Fuzzy2 to more effectively collect oil from the surface of open waters.
Read MoreExperiencing, Crafting, Delivering
All three of these story-development steps are important, but the first one is the most significant (and it’s the one I appreciate the most).
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Telling the Mainstream about Manufacturing
How do we reach the next generation of manufacturing employees? One machine tool company succeeds with local efforts. Meanwhile, “C.H.A.M.P.I.O.N.–Now!” seeks to go national.
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