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Upbeat in Pittsburgh
Vendors and potential customers discuss the latest products in the precision-machined parts industry during the Technical Member Exhibits.
Read MoreHas Lean Become Too Extreme?
Surges in demand reveal a weakness of just-in-time supply chains.
Read MoreThe Right Fit Is In The Fixtures
Custom engineered workholding fixtures are key to the effectiveness of an unusual Automated Production System (APS) recently installed at Kurt Manufacturing. It helps that one of this company’s specialties is custom engineered workholding fixtures.
WatchImproving Machine Tool Accuracy with Volumetric Compensation
The Etalon LaserTRACER from Optical Gaging Products, Inc. is designed to make it simpler and faster to measure and compensate for changes in accuracy throughout a machine’s volume.
Read MoreHow Proactive is KitchenAid about Machine Maintenance?
Learn about KitchenAid’s approach to OEE in June’s cover story.
Read MoreOutsource Regionally Instead of Nationally
The logic of “offshoring” often makes more sense when there is no shore involved. Considerable savings can result from sending work to different regions of the USA.
Read MoreWhen Pigs Fly
Makino will host a Global Titanium Day on Thursday, May 20th at its Mason, Ohio Global Titanium R&D Center.
Read MoreApril Industrial Production up 13%
Consumer durable goods industrial production in April was up 13.2% compared to April 2009.
Read MoreVIDEO: Pocketing Steel - 0.030” DOC
(Sponsored Content) This video demonstrates Dapra's 1" Toroid End Mill executing a pocketing routine in steel. The material is 4140PH (30 Rc), and the machine tool used is a Fadal 4020 with a 40-taper spindle with .030" DOC.
WatchBalanced Machining Is Faster Machining
NC program optimization software initially helped Bell Helicopter’s Drive Systems Center machine titanium faster by balancing cutting forces. The manufacturer now uses it to improve cycle times for aircraft parts made from other metals, too.
Read MoreDetermining Machining Effectiveness, Not Guessing It
KitchenAid uses Overall Equipment Effectiveness to determine in real numbers the impact individual machine tools have on parts production for its stand mixers. In doing so, it brings actual machining processes closer to ideal ones.
Read MoreRemoving Unwanted Oil—in Coolant or in the Gulf
This floating oil skimmer uses Abanaki’s Fuzzy2 to more effectively collect oil from the surface of open waters.
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