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Energy Efficiency Improves
Significant decline in energy use and intensity by manufacturers show improvements in both energy efficiency and changes in manufacturing output mix.
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Celebrating 40 Years by Giving Back
To honor the 40th anniversary of LNS Group (based in Orvin, Switzerland), the company’s more than 800 employees have committed to give back to their communities through public service.
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Brainstorming with Employees
Manufacturers often get their best ideas for production efficiency and quality improvements straight from the shopfloor personnel.
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Shorten the Training Curve with Cognitive Mapping, Part 2
We can give someone information, but that does not mean that that person has converted that information into usable knowledge.
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Programmable Gages Help Create Automation Cell
Conroe Machine (Conroe, Texas) is doing what most machine shops only dream of: hard turning a family of parts around the clock in an unmanned cell that operates a “self-controlled” process.
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Richest Foreign Countries Shake Off Aftermath of Financial Crisis
In case you're interested in knowing how the rest of the world's manufacturing sector is holding up, an article from The Guardian sums it up.
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Changing your Comfort Zone
Through the years, leaders of many companies needed the courage to make the technological leap from machining precision parts on single-spindles to investing in their first rotary transfer machine.
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In September 2013, Rick Kline, president of Gardner Business Media, celebrated 50 years with the company. It’s more than a milestone, it’s a testament.
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Okuma Opens New High-Efficiency Factory
Okuma Corporation has held a formal dedication ceremony celebrating the opening of the first building of its new manufacturing facilities in Oguchi, Japan.
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Efficient High-Speed Roughing
The Vortex roughing strategy produces tool paths with a controlled engagement angle for the complete operation.
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Big Visions for Micro Parts
Micromachined parts place unique demands on dimensional measurement systems. It pays to know the most effective approach for a given application.
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Achieving Precision Surface Finishes with Slurry Blasting
Wet blasting is a dust-free and static-free process that removes burrs, scale, oxidation and rust, marks, paint and coatings, oils and grease while preparing the surface for other coatings or processes.
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