Chris Koepfer

Chris Koepfer Editor Emeritus

Add Additive to your IMTS Agenda

The Additive Manufacturing Conference’s focus is on industrial applications of 3D printing and AM technologies for making functional components and end-use production parts. The conference is part of IMTS this year.

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Automation

A Smart Path to Reshoring

Hybrid Racing was reluctantly planning to send more work to China when the company stumbled across MakeTime.

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Getting Unspoiled

The trip I'm embarking on this time is unique for me: My family and I are "on our own."

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Gene Haas Foundation Steps Up for Vets

Workshops for Warriors receives a $250,000 grant from the Gene Haas Foundation to help continue its work.

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Turn-Mills

Multitasking is More Than Doing Two Things at Once

Combining different metalcutting operations on a single machine platform is helping shops explore better ways to manufacture.

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Changing Behaviors--the Final Frontier

It amazes me in my lifetime how easily we have adapted to not only the changes that technology has brought into our lives, but acceptance of the rate of change.

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Automation

Cobots are Coming

Today, we are seeing the emergence of collaborative robots that use sophisticated sensors that allow humans and robots to work together without the need for guarding.

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CAD/CAM

Tornos Users can now Benefit from Mastercam Swiss CAM

Tornos customers using the company’s TISIS with ISO programming functions can now make use of Mastercam Swiss CAM to speed up programming on Tornos’ line of machine tools.

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GenSwiss Partners with Swiss Tooling Maker

GenSwiss parnters with Louis Bélet SA, which has heritage as a supplier to the Swiss watch industry.

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New IMTS Balloon Hits the Road

The new IMTS ballon is the third model built for AMT - The Association for Manufacturing Technology.

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LMC Workholding Celebrates 100 Years

The company was founded in Logansport, Indiana, in 1916. Although it is headquartered in the Midwest, it has established relationships in Taiwan, Germany, Italy and Sweden.

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Anatomy of an Article

My editorial odometer recently turned over 24 years.

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