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Automation

Automation System Loads up Expandability, Scalability and Precision

Determining the scope of an automation system involves trying to anticipate a facility’s future needs, and system design, assembly and installation can include long lead times and significant expense.

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Finding Significant Increases in Honing Accuracy

Single Stroke Honing is a single-pass process that sizes and finishes a bore with a series of progressively larger superabrasive tools adjusted to a preset diameter.

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Workholding

Hitting the Target with Creative Workholding

While growth has been steady in its Swiss operations, this archery equipment supplier’s most drastic improvements have come at the hands of the workholding systems on its VMCs.

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Leveraging ERP Software for Continued Growth

Shop management software has helped this toolmaker grow through streamlined operations and increased profit margins.

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The Autodesk, Delcam and Partmaker Relationship

Many people know Autodesk as the “AutoCAD” people. However, Autodesk is so much more than AutoCAD.

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Why Don't We?

To maintain our manufacturing base and remain globally competitive, it’s up to us in the industry to make it happen.

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CAD/CAM

CNC Programming Software Increases Precision and Speed

Programming by hand was once a reality for IM Torneria (Bologna, Italy). However, when projects with complicated components became the norm for the shop, it was obvious to the company that CAM was needed. 

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Craftsman's Cribsheet: Inspection of Slings, Lifting Devices and Rigging Equipment

OSHA 1926.251(a)(1): “Rigging equipment for material handling shall be inspected prior to use on each shift and as necessary during its use to ensure that it is safe. Defective rigging equipment shall be removed from service.”

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Index Celebrates 100 Years in Business

Together with its subsidiary company, Traub, Index Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of CNC turning machines. 

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Don't Tell Them, Show Them

Precision manufacturing today is far different from the dirty factories that most people remember from the days of black and white television.

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Methods' Metal Storm 2014

On June 11 and 12, Methods Machine Tools Inc. hosted Metal Storm 2014—an open house at the company’s recently expanded and renovated headquarters and corporate technology center in Sudbury, Mass.

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A 4-Year Degree isn’t Necessary to Excel in this Field

The majority of the demand for skilled workforce in industry is in this area of engineering and production technology, requiring some post high school education or credential, but less than a 4-year bachelor’s degree.

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Techspex
SPC Innovations, In-machine gaging and attachments
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Star swiss-type automatic lathes
Kyocera
SolidCAM
Efficient, Durability, Advanced CBN Abrasives
Marubeni Citizen CNC
manufacturer of machine tools