Tom Beard Former Executive VP
Tom has worn many hats at Gardner over the years, having, at various times in a long career, run our content, creative and web departments and served as Editor in Chief of Modern Machine Shop magazine. Tom now combines all those skills in his leadership of Gardner’s Custom Content team, telling customer stories with truth and authenticity in optimized multimedia platforms.
Digital Manufacturing. Implemented.
Digital Manufacturing is all over IMTS, in exhibitor booths and in special technology displays. Discover what Peter Eelman, chief experience officer at AMT, thinks of what’s to come at this year’s show.
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Five-Axis Machining Expands Its Range
Advancements in 5-axis machines, controls and software have made this technology so productive and easy to use that it can now benefit a much broader range of shops.
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IMTS 2018 Breaks Record Attendance
IMTS 2018 didn’t just break records; it crushed them. According to AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, the show attendance will approach 130,000 at its close. The prior record was 121,764—and that was during the dot-com bubble.
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Tooling Tailored to Your Machining Centers
The Smart Tool assembly consists of a tool-toolholder combination tailored to a specific machine’s dynamics.
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Still More to See at IMTS
With over 2,400 exhibitors on 1.3 million square feet of floor space, IMTS 2018 has the broadest display of technology ever.
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The Five Levels of Multitasking
When it comes to multitasking equipment, one size by no means fits all. Mazak helps shops sort it out in their Multitasking Knowledge Center here on MMS Online.
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Gardner Projects Even Better Year in 2013
While most people in the machine tool business are pretty satisfied with U.S. sales of late, it now looks like 2013 is shaping up to be an even stronger year for machine tool consumption.
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Future of Manufacturing on Display in Emerging Tech Center
No one is promising that everything you see on display in the Emerging Technology Center (ETC), Booth N-650, will be in your shop next year. But based on past IMTS ETCs, it’s a good bet that something there will directly impact your company’s future.
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Industrial Automation Show Debuts in North American with IANA
In a first for IMTS, the well-regarded Industrial Automation show is now on site in the East Hall of McCormick Place.
Read MoreWho Owns This?
An executive from a well known machine tool builder made an interesting comment the other day. There he was, amid an impressive array of sophisticated technology, saying that it's a mistake for manufacturers to ask vendors to provide turnkey solutions.
Read MoreTools, Dies and Llamas
With our two oldest children now in school, and our third in preschool, my wife Sue felt it was time to reenter the out-of-home workplace. Having previously practiced as a legal secretary, Sue thought this time she would seek an upgrade in her interpersonal work environment and thus went out and promptly secured a part-time position tending llamas.
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Many shops have undergone remarkable transformations since the scary times of the 1980s. They've made the investments not just in chip-making machines, but also in technical process improvements, systematic efficiency improvements, and perhaps most important, the broader and deeper utilization of their precious human resources.
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