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Manufacturing Continues Strong Performance
The September 2012 report of U.S. manufacturing technology orders (USMTO) shows continued strength in manufacturing capital equipment sales.
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New CNC Multi-Spindle Designed for Form Tools
Advances in technology can be disruptive. However, some advances can provide new possibilities for existing methods and tools leading to leaps forward in efficiency and effectiveness.
Read MoreVote or Shut Up
If all politics is local then what happens on the national/federal level may seem to be removed from our villages, townships, cities and states.
Read MoreNo Substitute for Peer-to-Peer
Modern manufacturing as we know it is a complex blend of many disciplines. Managing a metalworking shop is no longer exclusively about making good parts.
Read MoreWe Know Subtraction, Should We Learn Addition?
Since the dawn of metalworking, machining raw material has been a subtractive process.
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Flexible, Quick-Change Tool Adapter System
Before the development of live tooling, there were turning centers and machining centers. Processing parts with multiple operations that included turning and milling required moving the workpieces from one machine tool to another.
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Rotary Transfer: Turning Up the Volume
This contract manufacturer set its sights on high volume, precision turning and assembly of complex components from Day 1 and continues to succeed in a market many have abandoned using CNC rotary transfer machining.
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Event Faces the Skilled Worker Shortage
The lack of skilled manufacturing workers is like the weather: Everybody complains about it, but nobody seems to be able to do anything about it, either.
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Here, Multi-Spindles are Alive and Well
While the nature of multi-spindle work has changed over time, the demand for parts produced using this technology remains strong for this Midwest contract manufacturer, which successfully blends older cam and new CNC multi-spindle machine technologies.
Read MoreGroup Think
We citizens of the United States really have only a few mandates for good citizenship: paying taxes and jury duty.
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Beyond Secondaries: Vertical Machining Center Enhances OEM's Capability
Like many turning based shops, Clippard Instrument Laboratory first applied vertical machining centers to perform secondary operations on its screw machined parts. That view has changed for the better.
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