Workforce Development
Flexibility And Responsiveness Pay Off For Connecticut Job Shop
This New England job shop's key to flexible responsiveness is allowing its machinists to have total control on the shop floor. Find out how they can produce 250 to 300 orders per month--with 30% of them being new parts.
Read MoreLightweight Pallets Do Heavy-Duty Job For Illinois Manufacturer
This shop used to take 6-7 hours to set up a job to run 1-2 parts at a time. Now they're running 12 parts at a time at a much lower cycle time per part thanks to a dedicated pallet system.
Read MoreDrive Train Facility Moves From Punched Tape To DNC
This Rockwell plant measures 200,000 square feet, employs a staff of 460 and is primarily involved in the production of drive shafts for semi-trucks. As the product line evolved, so did their manufacturing methods.
Read MoreAbrasive Waterjet Machine For Job Shops
Cutting metal and other materials with a high-pressure stream of water and abrasive grit generally has been the domain of specialty shops dedicated to this process or large plants with special needs—and deep pockets.A new abrasive waterjet machine from Flow International Corp. (Kent, Washington) makes this process as attainable as, let's say, wire EDM, or almost any other mainstream metalworking process.
Read MoreSnapshot Of A Computer-Integrated Job Shop
Getting some basic software packages to "talk to each other" is the latest step in this job shop's steady march toward computer-integrated manufacturing -- at least for the moment.
Read MoreJob Shop Automates Presetting With DNC
Automating tool presetting and integrating it by DNC with the shop floor was a big step for this Connecticut job shop. Immediate payback from setup reductions proved them right.
Read MoreJob Shop Doubles Production With Wire EDM
MIE rests its reputation on its ability to machine large parts quickly using GFAGIECHilles Technologies' ROBOFIL 300 and its newest wire EDM machine with a Fanuc control, the ROBOFIL 510F, Mr. McGrail said.
Read MoreAutomating Software Ends Scheduling Nightmares For Job Shop
When Jean Pitzo stepped up to the CEO position of Ace Metal Craft in 1989, she found she had also stepped into a scheduling nightmare.
Read MoreJob Shop Grows With Punch Press Technology
GP Precision, a New Jersey-based precision sheet metal fabricator, was founded in 1966 to serve the prototype market of the electronics industry. Their original shop in Morris Plains, New Jersey, was expanded three times before they moved to Hackettstown in 1985.
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