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Mazak Hosts Precision Machining Competition for Students
More than 250 students from 19 Illinois high schools submitted more than 300 parts for this year’s contest.
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Methods 3D and Markforged Establish Partnership
Methods 3D Inc. has established a partnership with Markforged. Methods 3D will provide sales, service and support for the Markforged line of 3D printers, and the partnership will expand access to both companies’ additive manufacturing products.
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Robots are Great, but What About my Job?
In his column, Matt Kirchner says automation may change your job, but it won’t eliminate industrial employment. In fact, he believes it means more hiring will occur.
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Accessories for Swiss Make a Big Difference
We recently published an article that revisited the state of the art in Swiss-type accessories. Often, these are at the heart of the successful application of Swiss machining because they allow for various applications.
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A Top Shops’ Meet, Greet and Learn
The Top Shops Conference is a forum custom designed for networking and peer-to-peer exchange for all shops looking to see how they might stack up against other shops in many categories.
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Mitutoyo Announces Novi Solution Center
Mitutoyo America Corp. has announced the grand opening of its newest M3 Solution Center, offering product demonstrations, assistance with application challenges and metrology solutions, and product and educational training seminars.
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Videos: PM’s on YouTube!
We added PMTS 2017 machining demonstration videos to our YouTube channel. Here, you’ll find informative videos from manufacturers who presented on the PMTS show floor.
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Precision Workholding Delivers Accuracy and Production Capabilities
Holding the workpiece precisely is becoming an integral aspect of the machining process. It's more than presenting the blank to the cutter; it also includes repeatability from blank to blank.
Read MoreFire Prevention Can Save Your Company
Statistics show that more than half of all privately-owned businesses that experience a major fire go out of business within a year. For your shop to stay safe, take the proper precautions to set up your machines with fire suppression systems.
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Robot Monitoring Provides Safe, Flexible Automation
Working hand-in-hand with customers to further develop robot safety technologies, ABB recently introduced SafeMove2, which provides added capabilities to allow for the creation of more efficient and flexible production scenarios and to integrate safety fieldbus connectivity into the company’s IRC5 robot controller family.
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Applying Multitasking’s Versatility
Already finding success with its milling machines, this shop gained still more productivity when the manufacturer added turning capabilities to the latest models.
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Buckeyes and Badgers Welcome at Exact Metrology
The company serves industrial and commercial concerns, including heavy equipment, automotive and appliance companies. They even deal with nuclear facilities and sometimes museums.
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