Chris Koepfer

Chris Koepfer Editor Emeritus

Automation

HEH Continues to Grow

HEH (Hagarty Eichele Hagarty) Group has added Advanced Spindle Technology (AST) to it’s stable of system integration, machine tools sales and automation service for the manufacturing industry.

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Highs and Lows of Manufacturing and Life

My family has experienced highs and lows like manufacturing does, but nothing like we dealt with in 2016

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Paul Horn Keeps Moving Forward

Since I visited Horn in Germany two years ago, it has doubled its production floor with an investment of 70 million Euros.

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Video: Watch Flat Turning for Machining Polygons

Machining flats in a single handling is shown on this video from Okuma. The workpiece and cutter are rotated synchronously with a defined rotation frequency ratio, depending on the number of lobes needed to be machined.

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Production Machining in Germany

This week I’m reporting from the Schwabian region of Germany, where metalworking has deep roots and good technology.

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Workholding Manufacturer Gives Back to the Community

Located in Logansport, Indiana, since 1916, this third-generation workholding manufacturer recently announced a significant contribution to the town’s Memorial Hospital Cancer Care and Obstetrics capital project.

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Parts Cleaning

PMTS Knowledge Center: When ‘Clean’ Really Counts

Chuck Sexton, global product line manager for Kyzen, will present a knowledge center to discuss options available for shops to meet customer’s cleaning demands.

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Machine Tool Selection Tool

TechSpex is an interactive website that houses machine tool specifications for virtually any type of machine tool to perform virtually any metalworking operation, and it’s anonymous and free.

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PM Europe Rides Again

Our new, on the ground correspondent, will be sending reports from Europe.

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PMTS Knowledge Center: Improving Productivity in the Job Shop

On April 26 at 3 p.m., Renishaw’s veteran industry expert, Dan Skulan, will present the advantages of adopting automated ways to control process variation and introduce the company’s Productive Process Pyramid approach to process control at PMTS 2017.

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Basics

How to Contribute to the Magazine

We often are asked, “How can I get editorial coverage in Production Machining?” Stories about shops and technology are the life blood of our magazine. To answer that question, we created a Contributor's Guide for submitting materials for publication.

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Shopfloor Demo Feaures New Line of Production Turning Machines

Industry veteran, Greg Knight, will present a shopfloor demonstration on the “Power of Parallel,” highlighting the Lico turn-mill center.

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Horn USA
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Marubeni Citizen CNC
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World Machine Tool Survey
Kyocera
Star Swiss-type automatic lathes