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Minimizing Turnaround Times for Big Parts
The key to success (and the primary challenge) for any job shop is minimizing turnaround time for non-repeating work. This Indiana shop shares some of its strategies for reducing lead times for the various large-scale jobs it encounters.
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Effective Hole Making Via Robotic Orbital Drilling
New technology may enable robotic drilling to be more commonplace in machine shops by overcoming the issue of limited robot rigidity.
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Free Webinar: Secrets of Cost Savings through CNC Innovation
CNC innovation can deliver the lowest Total Cost of Ownership for production equipment. Find out how on June 21 during a free webinar presented by Fanuc FA America and “Modern Machine Shop.”
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Heavy Turnout for Innovation Days
Approximately 1,600 people attended the recent Innovation Days event at DMG/Mori Seiki, which featured more than 30 milling, turning and multitasking machines.
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What’s in a Code?
You’ll start to encounter two-dimensional matrix codes like this more frequently. Learn how your shop might benefit from them.
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Steady as She Goes
Machine shops are inventive operations. Learn how one uses a steady rest in a different way on one of its two-turret CNC lathes.
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Micromachining and Flat-Screen TVs
A Pennsylvania shop has benefitted by developing an effective micromachining strategy for hard tooling components. Learn more about this as well as the interesting incentive program it’s implemented.
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Look for the Codes
Two-dimensional matrix codes are being used for everything from marketing campaigns to positioning tool presetters to linking print magazines with bonus online content. Consider how you might use them.
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Multi-Wheel Grinding of Big Gears
New profile grinding technology is said to significantly improve productivity for big gears by grinding four tooth flanks simultaneously.
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A New Approach to Tool Presetting
This non-contact presetter has a number of design elements that enable it to perform effectively on the shop floor. It looks and operates differently than other presetters currently available, too.
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Is Now the Time for a Shopfloor CMM?
You’ve integrated more effective, efficient machining equipment to improve throughput. Perhaps now it’s time to take a closer look at how part inspection impacts your overall process.
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An Innovative Way to Use a Steady Rest
This shop found a way to modify one of its two-turret CNC lathes so that a tricky aerospace component could be properly supported for critical operations.
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