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Should Your Next VMC Be an HMC?
You might need a new machining center, but what kind should you buy? Jason Schumacher of machine tool distributor Hartwig argues that it may well be time for a horizontal machining center.
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Video: Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing technology from Fabrisonic shows ultrasonic additive manufacturing being used to produce a mold with conformal cooling channels.
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What Do Leading Shops Do? (In Five Tweets)
Leading machine shops have five things in common. Read Pete Zelinski’s series of tweets, and feel free to add to the list.
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Additive Manufacturing Instead of Forging
This footage, provided by Sciaky Inc., illustrates an additive manufacturing process that Lockheed Martin expects will save cost from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by providing a replacement for titanium forgings.
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Expanding Without Adding Staff
This news story is perhaps a sign of the times. This manufacturer expanded the size and capacity of its facility, but struggled to expand its workforce.
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Reality Redesigned: The Gauntlet
Nine design submissions are proceeding through “The Gauntlet” in The Edge Factor’s “Reality Redesigned” contest.
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Custom Blanks Add Capacity
What if you could let your machines do less low-value prep machining and more high-value finish machining? How would that change the economics of your process?
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Why Additive Manufacturing?
Watch video of CEO/COO of Greg Morris, Morris Technologies, discuss the significance of additive manufacturing and why the technology is important right now.
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What Does Lean Actually Mean?
It's important to make sure your employees are on the same page if you are considering a move to lean. Watch this presentation by BlueSwarf CEO Greg Eckerman for an introduction to lean's core principles.
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What Your Handbook Isn’t Telling You
Tony Schmitz, professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, gives a presentation on machine tool dynamics. Learn the role that this concept plays in realizing your optimal machining center performance.
Read MoreLeave the Average Productivity Behind
Official measures of U.S. manufacturing productivity are overstated. Productivity at the extremes is the real story.
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