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Automation

Lights-Out Machining and Long-Term Agreements Go Together

The value of a contractual agreement to keep on supplying the same part number to a customer is even greater than many shops realize.

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New Machines Improve the Operator’s Experience

A seamless new operating system guides the development process from idea to product.

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Manufacturing Professionals Needed, but Measurement Professionals Really Needed

Quality standards based on model-based definition are only increasing the need for skilled inspection professionals. This college recently added a course in computer-assisted inspection.

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Cutting Tools

Tool Vending Systems: Value Beyond Cost Control

Learn how can a tool vending system can also be a learning tool.

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Video: Who Is to Blame?

Answer: Maybe we all are or maybe no one is.

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Double-Coated EDM Wire Offers Fast Cutting and Smooth Skim Cuts

An EDM wire with of a second coating of zinc-rich brass improves the wire’s ability to generate exceptionally smooth surfaces in skim cuts while retaining fast-cutting properties in rough cuts through the solid.

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Milling Tools

Managing the Micro-Milling Process with Tiny Cutters

The engineering of this line of small end mills brings out both the challenges and opportunities in milling hard-to-machine materials on a micro scale.

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Turn/Mill

Get Ready for Growth

Making good parts is one thing, but making good parts in a process that is scalable is something different. Here is how one manufacturer rethought its production to prepare for opportunity.

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Delcam and Autodesk Seal the Deal

Autodesk, Inc. completed its acquisition of Delcam earlier this month. I like the synergy behind this combination.

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Aerospace

Setting the Stage for Sizeable Composites Work

By adding a five-axis waterjet/milling machine, its biggest autoclave and a more expansive lay-up room, Royal Engineered Composites is positioning itself to win larger-scale aerospace work it sees on the horizon.

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CAD/CAM

Laying Composites Fiber—Digitally

The most recent release of Spring Technologies’ NCSIMUL software can simulate the laying of fiber ribbon with NC machines.

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Aerospace

An Electrochemical Option for Blisks, Blades

This machining platform offers the non-contact electrochemical/precision electrochemical processes for five-axis milling of turbine engine blades and blisks.

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