MMS Blog
FEA for DFM
Shops that offer design for manufacturability advice can reduce customers’ machining cost and complexity. This shop leverages finite element analysis as part of its sophisticated DFM efforts, and this also helps in its efforts to establish long-term relationships with its customers’ engineers.
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Top Shops Benchmarking: Providing Direction, Gaging Performance
Top Shops benchmarking data helps guide shops’ improvement efforts and enables them to gage where they rank among industry-leading machining businesses.
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Europe Meets USA
European Correspondent Barbara Schulz’s recent visit to U.S. shops revealed some of the technologies American manufacturers apply and the challenges they face as they work to become more globally competitive.
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Video: This Mobile Cobot Frees Machinists from an Inefficient Secondary Process
Otto Motors’ self-driving vehicle combined with Yaskawa Motoman robot arms takes over a tedious manual process that was hanging up Hirotec’s lean manufacturing goals.
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Managing Cutting Tool Data in the Cloud
Shops are moving to data-driven manufacturing step by step. One of these steps is to access and manage cutting tool data with cloud-based, vendor-neutral databases and applications such as MachiningCloud. A review of this development shows what implementing Industry 4.0 might look like.
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Stiffness Improvement at Interface Leads to Spindle Life Increase
How the tool was clamped affected the spindle’s life because of the way the user naturally attempted to overcome the stiffness limitation, says tooling company.
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Case Study: In-House Gear Production Leads to Improved Quality, Speed
Advanced Design Technologies LLC’s subcontracted work led to quality issues, among other problems. Vero Software’s Surfcam 2017 R1 increased overall efficiency and quality.
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EMO 2017: A Sneak Peek
EMO, the world’s largest metalworking show will be back in Germany September 18-23 with the theme of “connecting systems for intelligent production.”
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Workholding System Suits Five-Axis Machining by Clamping Underneath
The clearance is an added benefit of the quick-change system, potentially facilitating five-axis as an automation tool.
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Threading Options for Hard Materials
Here are three approaches to threading hardened components.
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Why (and How) to Benchmark Your Machining Business
Doug Woods, president of AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology, shares the importance of benchmarking your manufacturing business and how the Top Shops program and conference can help.
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Manufacturing News of Note: July 2017
A big R&D agreement looks at additive for structural airplane components, Autodesk appoints a new president and other industry news.
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