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CNC Grinding with Less Labor
As difficult as it is to find skilled machining personnel in general, finding skilled grinding personnel is more difficult still.
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MMS Visits Workshops for Warriors
While helping veterans, Workshops for Warriors is simultaneously helping manufacturers with challenge of finding qualified personnel.
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120-Meter Long FMS in New Okuma Plant
With a broad product line and the need to meet tight delivery requirements, machine tool builder Okuma faces a challenge many of its customers would recognize. Namely: the need to manufacture responsively in an environment of high product variety and low production volumes.
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New Okuma Plant Relies on Automation, Production Control
The company says the DS1 facility in Japan is capable of 2 times the production capacity and 1/2 the lead time of the previous site.
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Machine Shop Pitches Product Idea Through Kickstarter
Manufacturers are often closet inventors. That is true for Kevin Saruwatari of manufacturing firm Qsine. He’s using a crowdsourcing website called Kickstarter in hopes of getting the financial kick to start developing his product.
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Labor Savings in Grinding
Representatives of a grinding equipment supplier comment on how this critical process can be made more efficient.
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A small nonprofit is demonstrating just how ready veterans are to transition into skilled manufacturing careers. The organization is helping vets and manufacturers at the same time. How far could this training model go?
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Video: Sheet Metal Forming Without a Die
Ford Motor Company produced this video of its process for forming sheet metal directly from the CAD model, without any need for a die.
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What Is Electropolishing?
Able Electropolishing produced this video to explain the electropolishing process, which is used for microfinishing, fatigue life improvement and even deburring in cases where the part is too delicate for more forceful finishing methods.
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High School Offers All-Female Engineering Class
Kewaskum High School in Kewaskum, Wisconsin has launched the state’s first all-female engineering class. Currently there are 17 female students taking the class.
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Mazak Invests in Production Capacity, Future Workforce
Next year, Mazak will celebrate 40 years of manufacturing in Kentucky. In time for that anniversary, the company will complete the latest expansion of its Kentucky manufacturing facilities—an expansion that is currently underway, and that aims at increasing the production capacity at this site from 140 machines per month to as many as 200.
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Radar-Based Collision Protection
Researchers are working toward radar-based collision protection for machine tools. Here are some thoughts about what a development such as that might mean.
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