Automation
Air in Your Favor
Blasting coolant through the spindle and out the end of the cutting tool is a great way to clear chips. Haas Automation’s Through-Tool Air Blast option can be an advantageous alternative.
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Optical Comparators Automate Inspection Processes
Developed by VisionX and available from Methods Machine Tools, the VisionGauge 700 series of digital optical comparators enables five-axis inspection so that users can efficiently view workpieces from all sides and angles.
Read MoreHaas Becomes Official Supplier for Scuderia Ferrari
Haas Automation (Oxnard, California) has partnered with Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team as an official supplier.
Read MoreThe Secret Robot
A manufacturer struggles over its employees’ potential reaction to automation. The struggle itself says something important.
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CMM Automation Software with 3D Graphing Capabilities
Verisurf Software offers Verisurf Automate, a graphical, object-oriented sequencing and CMM probe path-generation software that creates automated inspection plans, executes the plans and then generates reports.
Read MoreTechni Waterjet Celebrates 25 Years
The waterjet company got its start as a provider of robotic and automation systems for automotive.
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How Much Can Unattended Production Add?
Using a horizontal machining center, this shop kept production going through two 10-hour shifts per day. That seemed like a lot, but a pallet system enabled the shop to go even further.
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What’s Rotary Broaching, and How Did It Help a Robotics Team?
Rotary broaching enables CNC machines to create internal and external shapes such as squares, hexes and serrations. Slater Tool contributed its broaching technology to help a Los Angeles charter school program more effectively create components for a competition robot.
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Video: Automation Adds Jobs at Vickers Engineering
Rather than being a replacement for employees, this machined parts supplier says robotic automation has led to a doubling of the size of its staff.
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Reshoring, Robots and the New Factory Floor
Plastics processors are adopting robotics in a major way to compensate for a dwindling talent pool and reshored jobs.
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