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Try Humor to Connect to Younger Manufacturers on Social Media

Shop Floor Automations is trying something new: a Web comic intended to catch the attention of up-and-coming machinists on social media.

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Top Shops

Top Shops Profile: C&M Machining

C&M Machining was the 2016 Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of business strategies.

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Workholding

Clearing Weldment Machining Challenges

Rather than replacing an old horizontal boring mill with a similar model, this manufacturer of stone-cutting equipment now uses a dual-pallet HMC with a quill spindle to provide W-axis extension to reach past weldment obstructions and more effectively machine critical weldment features.

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Integrated Waterjet Expands Laser Cutting Potential

Designed for small, intricate features like turbine blade cooling holes, technology that fuses water and light virtually eliminates the traditional drawbacks of laser cutting without compromising the benefits.

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Basics

Data-Driven Manufacturing Deconstructed

"Data-Driven Manufacturing" can be broken into three areas for better understanding: the conceptual, the technical and the practical.

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The Role of Employee Incentives in Successful Automation

This shop doesn’t emphasize lights-out production so much as leveraging automation while the lights are still on. One key to this is a wage and compensation plan that rewards employees for maximizing automation’s impact.

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Video: Cub Manufacturing, Another Student-Run Shop

The success of a student-run high school manufacturing business in Wisconsin is leading other school systems to launch similar programs.

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Treating Tablets Like Tools

Industrial vending systems keep cutting tools and other items organized. Why not mobile devices, too?

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CAD/CAM

Chip Removal Chamber of Horrors

This case history from Mastercam is appropriately themed for Halloween.

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Laser & Waterjet

Waterjet Intensifier Pump Reduces Water, Power, Abrasive Usage

Jet Edge’s 100-hp, 75-kW X-Stream xP90-100 waterjet intensifier pump supports 75-KSI (5,200 bar) continuous operating pressure.

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Italian IIOT: Cautious but Confident

Although The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) was a popular topic at Bi-Mu, the biennial machining and manufacturing exhibition in Milan, Italy, technology suppliers seem to have adopted a cautious outlook.

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Automation

The Mobile Cobots Are Coming

Otto Motors, Yaskawa America and Mobile Industrial Robots are stretching the limits of collaborative robotics for the shop floor by adding autonomous mobility.

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