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Interlocking Serrated Surfaces Enhance Modular Fixturing
This pedestal-type workholding fixture matches its grooves and ridges naturally and automatically aligns the surfaces of the workpiece, making subsequent reclampings highly repeatable.
Read MoreIf All The Money Disappeared
A few weeks ago, my seventh-grade daughter began working on her first history research paper for school. Leslie Ann’s assigned topic was the Great Depression.
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Automating EDM Electrode Design For Mold Making
Many EDM electrode design steps are being automated, making electrode production faster and easier. Developments promise to streamline situations where EDMing is unavoidable, as well as make EDM attractive as the most efficient machining process in many cases where complex mold shapes are involved.
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A Radically Different Production Plant
From the outside, it looks somewhat like a resort hotel. From the inside, it isn’t set up like any job shop you’ve probably ever seen.
Read MoreProductivity Is Up—And It Counts
Last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that productivity figures for the last quarter of 1999 had been revised sharply upward, adding more than two percentage points to the 4. 3 points reported earlier.
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Shop Floor Metrology On The Move
Portable arm coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) offer advantages beyond portability.
Read MoreNo False Hopes
One of the most dangerous but prevalent of false hopes in our age is that we can have "heaven on earth. " It is the belief that human nature is perfectible.
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A Shop Preset For Productivity
The tool presetters at this shop are interfaced to its computerized tool inventory system as well as linked to the machine tools for direct downloading of offset data. Digital image processing at the presetters is the key.
Read MoreA Story To Tell
As I look back, one set of experiences stands out: all the visits I’ve made to shops and plants around the country “to get a story. ” That’s been the best part of my job.
Read MoreMore For You
It's January 2000, and the word millennium does not appear anywhere (in) this issue. Instead of fanfare and hype, we've opted for business as usual.
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The New Face Of Creep Feed Grinding
Creep feed grinding allows a hardened workpiece to be machined from the solid in a single pass, replacing milling, broaching or other types of grinding. Compact, more affordable creep feed grinding machines now make this process attractive in a wider range of applications.
Read MoreTelling The Future
I predict that, in the 21st Century, there will come a time when: Most of us will work at home but go to offices or factories "to get away from it all. " Poverty will decline almost everywhere, but "want" will only get much worse.
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