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Good Old-Fashioned High Tech
What’s this 1930’s lathe built by Moody in Quebec, Canada doing in Heidenhain’s IMTS booth?
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Haas Automation—"Your Roots are Showing"
Haas Automation began producing rotary tables in 1983 and a few years later moved into machine tool manufacturing.
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Mazak Makes Good Use of MTConnect
The Mazak Energy Dashboard allows users to monitor machine tool energy usage and take steps to realize energy savings.
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IMTS Opens to Bouyant Mood
With attendee preregistration ahead of expectations, the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) opened this morning at Chicago's McCormick Place.
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Virtual Beats Reality for Viewing Big Machines
At the Bohle Machine Tools booth, a digital display of this large turning center from Niles-Simmons reveals more about the machine’s capabilities than a live demo.
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It’s Damping, Not Dampening, Dammit!
Dampening might be a concern when ironing, but damping is a concern when machining any metal.
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A Free MTConnect App for Your iPhone
“Free”—as in “download at no charge.” Joel Neidig, a systems engineer at ITAMCO has developed an application (“app”) so that he and his coworkers can take advantage of MTConnect as a communications protocol that enables their iPhones to monitor machine tools at their plant in Plymouth, Indiana.
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Who Was the First MMS Editor on TV?
Since this program aired in October 2000, machine tools have become even more marvelous.
Read MoreThe Power is in the Apps
“Growing demand for MTConnect-enabled apps will clinch lasting acceptance of the standard.”
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Does Dexter Really Need a Hard Hat?
A Motoman SDA10D dual-arm robot (nicknamed Dexter Bot) appropriately had the honor of turning the first shovel of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for Motoman Robotics’ new facility in Miamisburg, Ohio.
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A Very “Spirited” Video
DP Technology’s IMTS contest video is a playful portrayal of a high-spirited software company.
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Ballnose End Mills Have an Interesting Edge
In early summer 2010, I had a long talk with Dale Hill, applications engineer at Greenleaf Corp., the cutting tool manufacturer in Saegertown, Pennsylvania.
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