Chris Koepfer

Chris Koepfer Editor Emeritus

IMTS

Henning Booth Features Intuitive Touchscreen Interface

Henning Software’s booth has a Touch Scheduling Board that uses an intuitive touchscreen interface that lets you drag-and-drop scheduled shop order presentations.

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IMTS

See Chip Control and Chipless Cutting at Marubeni Citizen-Cincom

Visit Marubeni Citizen Cincom’s booth to see how the new Low Frequency Vibration (LFV) cutting technology deals with the problem of chip accumulation. 

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Behind the Curtain of Machine Tool Sales

This book highlights the experiences of the author’s 20 years of selling machine tools, through his filter, “with plenty of philosophy, inspiration and wine tossed in.”

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IMTS

Questions about Precision Machining? Ask Index

At this IMTS, Index Corp. is challenging show visitors to Ask Index key questions, the answers to which can help them ready their businesses for the next five years or more.

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Automation

Go North to Find Schütte's Multi-Spindles, South for Tool Grinders

Schütte USA are in two locations at this year’s IMTS with a sophisticated cell demonstrating automation applied using a FANUC robot in the South Hall and a presentation featuring CNC Multi-spindles in the Gosiger booth in the North hall.

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Basics

When to Choose Custom Tooling

While most shops try to use standard, off-the-shelf cutting tools for as many operations as possible, it is often more cost effective to invest in custom tools.

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5 Ways to Begin the Path to Digital Manufacturing

Creating bridges between the digital data-driven world and the physical world that generates the data is key to implementing a digital manufacturing system and reaping the benefits data analysis can bring to efficiency.

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Medical Grows as Its End Market Slows

While the baby-boom generation inexorably falls apart, bone screws, plates, rods, artificial joints and less-invasive surgical fixes indicate a bright future for manufacturers of the parts needed to help keep “Humpty” together. The trick for medical-part makers is keeping up with the evolving technology needed to meet industry demands.

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Changing with the Medical Industry

This article, “Keeping Current with the Medical Machining Market,” looks at one shop that is keeping its finger on the pulse of the industry by moving the company to capabilities that are outside its comfort zone.

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It's Been a Good Old House

My house has been on the market for the summer, and as I reflect on this exercise, it reminds me a little of what we see at IMTS.

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Holding Work with Magnets

This article features one working system that can be an answer to the need for accommodating parts of various geometric configurations.

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Controlling Aluminum Machinability

This article explains some of the advancements that are being made in the design and execution of aluminum bar and blanks to meet shop machining requirements.

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