Automation
Fuji Machine's CSD-300II Twin-Spindle Lathe Achieves High Productivity
Fuji Machine’s CSD-300II front-facing twin-spindle lathe is said to achieve greater productivity with the help of faster robot traverse and turret indexing speeds.
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Download the Automation Content Collection
Automation is one of the most important long-term trends reshaping machining. Presented by Makino, this downloadable collection compiles some of our most popular recent stories on machine shops succeeding with automation.
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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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Machine-Tending Automation Gets a Head Start
Making industrial robots more versatile without sacrificing speed or power stretches integration investments and attracts new business.
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Becoming a Second Source for Ventilator Parts
Demand for ventilator parts stretched this shop’s supply chain. Here is what it took to rapidly insource production.
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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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Hermle's HS Flex Heavy Work Handling System Stores Nine Pallets
Designed for the Performance-Line and High-Performance-Line of five-axis machining centers, Hermle’s HS Flex Heavy work handling system can move workpieces ranging to 1,200 kg.
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Autonomous Bin Picking for CNC Machining Applications
With the launch of a new application kit for collaborative robots, Universal Robots is creating a new option for lights-out machining. But the company may have tapped into a solution for a deeper problem: attracting millennials to the manufacturing workforce.
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Software Updates Enhance Cobot Programming, Monitoring
New software updates have added some 50 operational and ease-of-use features to the line of OB7 collaborative robots from Absolute Machine Tools’ partner Productive Robotics.
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