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This article describes a recently developed system that uses optical imaging and machine vision techniques to update the program data by locating known, visible features within captured images.
Software for creating probing routines off-line promises to make machine tool probing easier to use. As a few examples show, different software providers look at this off-line programming in different ways.
The move is one of several initiatives that have been made to improve the company’s operations in North America as part of the Sandvik Digital Solutions Growth Strategy.
This shop doesn’t emphasize lights-out production so much as leveraging automation while the lights are still on. One key to this is a wage and compensation plan that rewards employees for maximizing automation’s impact.
The new facility increases the company’s available space by over half, with room to grow even more in the future.
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With NC programs created automatically, this shop goes straight from the designer to the machine tool.
Here’s a way to clearly show how your shop’s design for manufacturability advice is helping your customers and, perhaps more importantly, your customers’ engineers.
Different automated material removal applications teach similar lessons about the value of early testing, close collaboration and adventurous thinking.
Outsourcing maintenance to a third-party specialist can be a cost-effective way to realize higher overall equipment efficiency and better process control.