MMS Blog
Smart Shops Will Continue to Invest in New Technology
Although our latest survey shows that spending on machine tools will slow in 2016, it’s an “investor’s market” for metalworking companies with vision and boldness.
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Real-Time Tool Monitoring
Machine operators have long dreamt of a process monitoring system that detects tool wear, and potentially catastrophic conditions and automatically compensates for changes in tool geometry after resharpening. Now that dream is a reality.
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Gears and the Future of Mobility
What will happen to things like step-gear transmissions as we transition to electrified vehicles? We go to Germany to find out.
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Bearing Down on Industry 4.0
A research project in Europe is developing what could conceivably be the prototype for machine tools ideally suited for implementing data-driven manufacturing within the Industry 4.0 framework. One of the most interesting aspects of the project is embedding digital sensors in the bearing components inside the machine tool.
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Additive Manufacturing’s Assist to ID Grinding
By addressing a long-standing coolant-delivery problem, an additively grown nozzle enhanced the effectiveness of ID grinding in a complementary role.
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Shifting from Manual to Automatic
By partnering with its suppliers as a knowledge resource, this job shop made a successful transition from manual to CNC thread grinding, raising productivity and attracting new business with its increased capabilities.
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Know Your Control
A new training center will enable Heidenhain to support its CNC users by ensuring that they are aware of all that the control can do. The value of some control capabilities don’t become apparent until they are seen in use.
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Apprenticeship Model Expands in North Carolina
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander in this state, where established, European-style workforce development programs play a critical advisory role for brand new ones.
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A New Tool for School
FANUC’s new fenceless CERT cart is designed to help students gain the skills they’ll need to succeed in today’s advanced manufacturing environment.
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Multitask Machine or Mini Cell?
Depending on the application, this shop might use live-tool turning centers to machine parts complete or a reconfigurable “mini-cell” strategy to enable a single operator to tend two machines at once.
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Data-Driven Manufacturing Enabled with Tool Lifecycle Management
This video presents a lively and easy-to-follow scenario of how information about cutting tool availability links design, planning and production. Although TDM's tool lifecycle management software is brought into focus at relevant spots in this video, the larger message that "tool data management will be the control room of digitally controlled production" is sound and compelling.
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Grob Holds In-House Exhibition
The line of universal machining centers was highlighted, as well as the connectivity package called Grob-Net 4 Industry.
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