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Video: “Three-Stack” Turret Lathe with ATC
This turret lathe features an automatic toolchanger to increase flexibility for job shops that encounter a variety of different part types.
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How to Succeed in Metalworking? The Answer’s in the Data
In a recent survey, more than 300 businesses using metalworking technology shed light on their outlook for future business conditions, greatest challenges and which strategies are working best for addressing those challenges.
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Five Design for Manufacturability Tips for Designers
Leading machine shops offer design for manufacturability (DFM) advice to customers to reduce machining cost and lead time. Here are five examples.
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GBI: Metalworking October 2016 – 48.4
The trend in backlogs indicates capacity utilization at shops should begin improving.
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Everybody Wants a (Tax) Break—But Hurry!
Companies considering investing in new machinery or equipment may want to do so before the end of the year to take advantage of deductions on their 2016 taxes.
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How Do Media Affect Your Business?
Give us feedback in the 2016 Media in Manufacturing Survey to influence how we present manufacturing-related content. Thank you!
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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 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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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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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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