Chris Koepfer

Chris Koepfer Editor Emeritus

Expanding for the Future

This 2-day event showcased the expansion of Marubeni's New Jersey facility that went from 26,000 square feet to more than 42,000 square feet.

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Grob Holds In-House Exhibition

The line of universal machining centers was highlighted, as well as the connectivity package called Grob-Net 4 Industry.

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Sheffield Rising

Today, Sheffield has come back a long way with a resurgence of advanced manufacturing in the area.

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Software Provides Time Savings and Improved Accuracy

Shops get paid for making chips, and profit comes from making them as efficiently as possible. Shop management software is a key to reducing waste by ensuring that machining is being done on the right jobs, in the right way and at the right time.

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The Industrial Internet of Things is Here

In the future, more shops will be making more complicated workpieces using a variety of processes.

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TRAM Visit Brings AMRC to Light

At the heart of the TRAM conference is AMRC, an acronym for Advanced Manufacturing Research Center.

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Visit to Wickman Reveals Interesting Machine and Application

One of the machines that caught my eye is the model 675, which stands for six-spindle, 75-mm diameter.

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Cutting into the Workforce Shortage

On Manufacturing Day, which was October 2 this year, students from Williamson County, Tennessee, toured multiple manufacturing facilities, one being Horn USA, to obtain a firsthand look at local career opportunities.

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Delcam App now Available for Android

No longer does the programmer and designer need to keep shelves full of manuals to use CAD/CAM software.

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Automation

Taking a Big Step

This Indiana shop made a leap from manual machining and basic CNC technology to a sophisticated turning cell and has not looked back. It's been a customer driven transition.

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Cutting Tools

Re-Turning Adds Life to Train Wheels

Unique turning considerations and circumstances come into play when re-turning well-worn freight and metro rail wheels.

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Calming the Additive Manufacturing Cacophony

There has been increasing buzz in the past few years about the possibilities of using additive manufacturing (AM) side by side in subtractive manufacturing shops.

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