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Will Voice Recognition Enable a Transformational HMI for Machine Tools? (See Video)
A new digital assistant for machining brings voice control to various CNC types and voice-actuated access to machine-tool-related information. Given its promise to free shopfloor personnel to work more effectively, one machine tool builder sees it as a potentially game-changing development.
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How to Reduce the Effect of Vibration in Production Grinding
It is not always possible to correct a vibration problem as soon as that problem begins to appear. Rather than stopping production, here is a means of continuing to realize smooth, efficient grinding until the underlying cause of vibration can be addressed.
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For Many Machining Facilities, the Mindset Now Must Be “Radical Automation”
What if there will never, ever be enough talent in your local labor pool to meet the still-growing demand for skilled manufacturing employees? The real challenge might lie in our expectations about how much skilled labor we need. Let IMTS 2018 be the beginning of facing this challenge.
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DMG MORI to Relocate U.S. Headquarters to Chicago’s South Side
The move aims to address the coming need for engineering talent. Locating close to the Illinois Institute of Technology will provide access to students and expose those students to manufacturing technology.
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10 Takeaways about the Industrial Internet of Things
What will it look like for manufacturing to embrace and make use of interconnected hardware? Here are some clues.
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Understanding Circle-Segment Milling Tools
The circle-segment cutter represents a class of milling tool in which the CAM software is key for using the tool effectively. Cutting profiles presented at the proper angles realize cycle-time reductions in contoured workpieces such as molds. A CAM company engineer discusses the role of this tooling.
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MMS Looks Back: 2010s - How Far Will Digital Advances Go?
Shops now linking their capabilities into unified systems are taking the first steps on a journey with no known destination. In media, too, we are asking our own version of this question. This story is part of our 90th anniversary series.
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Even My Accurate Predictions Are Wrong
The future does not come in a straight line. Multiple factors affect one another and the final outcome. My prediction that machine shops would see more composites is playing out, but I missed an important means by which this would happen.
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MMS Looks Back: 1940s - How They Rolled During World War II
What has changed in roller bearing manufacturing? The Timken Company and Modern Machine Shop reunite to explore the topic we covered 75 years ago. This story is part of our 90th anniversary series.
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An Introduction to Our Collection of Articles Celebrating the Magazine’s 90 Years: MMS Looks Back
We consider technologies that have been important through each of our nine decades so far.
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10 Reasons Why Machine Shops Vary So Much in Quoted Pricing
Many factors explain the potential 10X variation in different shops’ bids for the same machining work.
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Are Imprecise CAD/CAM Cycle Time Estimates Holding Back Efficiency?
A CAM provider with open postprocessor logic sees users employing that openness to realize more reliable predictions of machining time. There are various reasons why tighter estimates are becoming more crucial.
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