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MMS Looks Back: 1980s - CAD/CAM Comes on Strong
As CNC machine tools displaced conventional, manually operated machines, computerized systems were taking over other manufacturing functions. This story is part of our 90th anniversary series.
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Characterizing the Future of Manufacturing over the Next Nine Years
The hopes and dreams we have today provide a good clue for what tomorrow might be like.
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MMS Looks Back: 1930s - Machine Shops Take a Belting in the Depression
Even when harsh economic conditions have business at a creep, manufacturing methods and shopfloor practices must move forward. The means of powering machine tools is a case in point. This article is part of our 90th anniversary series.
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Using Data to Do Better in Manufacturing
Although the Smart Manufacturing Experience 2018 event in Boston may not have provided a simple, clear definition of “smart manufacturing,” it did provide a broad experience of what smart manufacturing can be like.
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Autodesk Introduces PowerMill 2019 and Fusion Production at Its Smart Manufacturing Celebration Event
Autodesk’s Smart Manufacturing Celebration showcased enhancements to PowerMIll 2019, the latest release of its flagship CAM programming systems, and demonstrated the integration of production scheduling, job tracking and machine monitoring.
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A Characterization of Blockchain Technology
If you are not an information technology person or an accountant, you may be struggling to figure out what blockchain technology is all about. Here’s a simple way to understand it.
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Enhancing Volumetric Accuracy of Large Machine Tools
Using a laser to track and record axis movement and tool-tip position enables this system to create an error map that can be used to compensate for inaccuracies inherent in the machine’s structure.
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Cable-Free Tombstones Bring New Life to HMC Operations
Programmable rotary units built into a double-sided tombstone extend unattended operation and add flexibility to palletized machining cells.
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Data Collection Is about More Than Just Numbers
Data-driven manufacturing is at its best when it reinforces people-driven manufacturing.
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Machine Monitoring Enhances Human Resource Functions
Decisions about manufacturing processes are not the only business factors that can be improved by the insights derived from data collected by a machine-monitoring system. For this shop, using this information to strengthen and fine-tune its employee incentive program is a significant benefit, among many others.
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Thinking about Current Manufacturing Trends
The recent MFG Meeting covered topics that capture the “ponderables” for forward-thinking manufacturing companies.
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Web-Based Quoting System Leverages the Cloud to Integrate the Process
Applying “intelligent algorithms” to part geometry and linking to appropriate sources of other required information can make the job-quoting process faster, more accurate and more likely to be competitive.
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