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Milling and Turning: Blurring the Lines
This story looks at an example of one such shop that transitioned from machining center-based metalcutting to multitasking on mill-turn machines.
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Top Shops Comes to IMTS 2018
At IMTS 2018 this year, Modern Machine Shop’s Top Shops program hopes to deliver actionable insights based on input from real machining businesses that can be taken back to a business and applied immediately.
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Business Index Produces Another Choppy Reading
The Precision Machining Index reports another month of volatile up and down readings.
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Emerging Leaders Series: Parrish Castor, Director of Quality and Technology, DaCruz Manufacturing
Although Parrish Castor’s background includes a degree in criminal justice, a brief stint playing minor league baseball and then working as an underwriter, he was destined for a career in manufacturing.
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Challenging Factors in Turning Tightly Toleranced Parts
This shop produces 100 housing covers made of high-tensile aluminum every year, and has reinvented and improved its machining processes in order to face the challenge of thin walls.
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Siemens/Festo Didactic Partnership Takes Aim at Skills Gap
Siemens is partnering with Festo Didactic to offer a certification program to help students, instructors and learning institutions combat the skills gap in the rapidly changing manufacturing industry.
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Emerging Leaders Series: Jami Massey, CEO, C&H Enterprises
Jami Massey, the first of our Emerging Leaders that we will highlight each week in this blog, believes that the customer drives production and only an extraordinary team determines success.
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Let the Robot Do It
Faced with a challenging customer order, Walt Machine Inc. looked to a camera-equipped robot for its part handling needs. It wasn’t a matter of replacing a person with automation, but rather reallocating resources to be better deployed elsewhere in the process.
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Financial Forecasts Show Medical Industry Growth
Wall Street forecasts show ongoing medical industry growth after encouraging first-quarter financial results, and Gardner’s proprietary business index data of manufacturers supplying the medical industry supports this optimism.
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Maximize Automation Results with Bar Feeders
Bar feeders are the primary automation option for the precision turned parts shop. Selecting the best bar feeder for the application is important for maximizing the production benefits of this technology.
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Index Eyes US, Chinese Automotive Market, Focuses on Digitalization
Preparing for the future means to keep pace with current trends, including highly productive multi-spindle machines, automation and Industry 4.0. As a result, the Index open house, held from April 24-27, in Reichenbach, Germany, was all about digital integration.
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Earning the Business in a Captive Shop
This division of ITW Welding finds it necessary to earn its parent company’s business by operating as though the next job might be the last job.
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