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Video: 5 Questions about Automation in Manufacturing
Productive uses of automation often involve people and technology working in parallel to complement one another.
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Acieta Event Explores the Use and Challenges of Collaborative Robots
Speakers describe some of the considerations relevant to the category of robots that are safe for operation near people.
WatchThe Next Milestone Year
The arrival of AM already ensures that IMTS this year will be significant.
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Video: 5 Things You Didn’t Know about Additive Manufacturing
Manufacturers now succeeding with additive manufacturing are beginning to see what its ultimate impact might be. Here are ideas about the reach that AM will have, and the kinds of changes and advances it will enable.
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Shop Manager Shows This Video to Help Employees Focus
The shop’s team members “need to understand their responsibility to our stakeholders to be productive in an extremely competitive global market,” he says. Distractions such as headphones work against this, because our brains cannot really multitask.
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Integrating Additive Manufacturing without Inhibiting Machining
CNC machining is the superior process for dimensional precision. Can AM be added to the machine tool without compromising this strength?
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Make Large Prototypes on a Small 3D Printer
To prove out the designs of brackets that are much larger than its 3D printer, this manufacturer prints the bracket models in pieces and assembles them into prototypes.
Read MoreThe Attentiveness Gap
American visitors to Japan noticed the focus of manufacturing employees there.
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Measurement Vs. Experience in Optimal Machining Parameters
When it comes to finding chatter-free cutting speeds, measurement is the faster way to go. An anecdote illustrates this.
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Q&A with Cardinal Manufacturing
A Wisconsin high school manufacturing class funds itself by operating as a business. The program provides a model for other school systems seeking to advance manufacturing instruction. Leaders in one Ohio county recently explored this idea.
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Live: Watch a Machine Shop Make Energy
With an acre of solar panels on the roof, this shop generates 40 percent of its own electricity needs. An online display shows the power-generation data in real time.
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The magazine about Additive Manufacturing of functional parts
We don’t cover 3D printing as it relates to making design models, movie props, sculpture or swimwear.
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