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Artificial Intelligence from an Intelligent Amplifier
With intelligent amplifiers providing measuring capabilities and easier setups, it’s easier than ever to understand what is going on in the manufacturing process in real time.
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Cord Cutting and Code Reading Make Gaging Smarter
Many companies have “cut the cord” to streamline metrology operations and data management. Barcode scanning is an additional option.
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How a Worksheet Can Elevate AM Success
How a simple worksheet can help improve success with additive manufacturing.
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CNC Data Feeds Make Social Distancing Easier
Machine monitoring helps work remotely, avoid close contact on the shop floor and prevent underbilling for lights-out machining.
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Has COVID-19 Made a Case for Automation? Taught Us About People Instead
Recently posted articles offer various pictures of machining automation. Also, goodbyes to two long-time writers for MMS: Wayne Chaneski and Derek Korn.
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Adding Part Traceability to CNC Machine Monitoring
Focusing on what makes money puts CNC machine monitoring data in context.
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After Machine Monitoring, Is Machine Learning the Next Step? Getting Ready for AI in Manufacturing
Is artificial intelligence coming to machine shops? Automatically gathering data is already widespread. Automatically analyzing data is likely the next step. One book offers a useful perspective on what this will and will not mean.
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Additive Manufacturing Versus COVID-19: The Race for PPE
Reporting from the front lines of the fight against coronavirus — still deep in the trenches.
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Which Kind of "More So" Are You?
The coronavirus pandemic has brought many people, businesses and industries to a standstill. How are you reacting?
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Can Sharing CNC Data Lift the Machining Industry?
Masses of anonymous metrics arrive ahead of even the leading economic indicators and help machine shops benchmark performance.
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What Comes Next: The Beginning of a Reshoring Policy for U.S. Manufacturing
The current crisis is a reckoning. Right now, the challenge is saving livings. But once we are free to look ahead, let’s learn the lessons and prepare ourselves better for the next crisis that comes.
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Additive Manufacturing in the Age of COVID-19
Reporting from the front lines of the fight against Coronavirus — how my journey began.
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