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The Value of RFID Machine Operator Authentication
Can secure shopfloor employee authentication via radio frequency identification enable shops to optimize their data-driven manufacturing efforts?
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Addressing Micro-Boring Challenges
This boring bar/tool holding system for Swiss-type lathes is said to offer high rigidity and positioning repeatability. In addition, the boring bars can be changed out using no hand tools.
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Robotic Automation Options for Vertical Turning Centers
Custom robotic machine tending systems designed for specific high-volume machining applications can yield significant productivity and product flow benefits.
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Parting Off: The Case for Standardizing on Sawing
The value of rotary saw cutting for parting off operations could boil down to simple economics paired with process efficiency gains.
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The Value of Aligning Efforts to Promote Manufacturing Careers
Successfully building the next generation of manufacturers requires a team effort between employers, educators and parents. Each of these three groups has a tremendous impact on young people’s career decisions. Without the support of all three, we are unlikely to bridge the skilled labor shortage that threatens the future growth of our industry.
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Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind
New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.
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German Project Yields Three New Medical Machining Processes
Recent research has resulted in a new mix of high-speed turn whirl milling, polygon turning and rotational turning for manufacturing medical bone screws and out-of-round nails.
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Addressing Machining’s Necessary Evil
Many view quality control as such, but integrating new measurement technologies and approaches can ultimately minimize QC’s impact on throughput and a company’s bottom line.
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PM’s Top 10 Articles of 2023
This batch of Production Machining articles that got the most clicks in 2023 cover a range of topics, technology and new ideas.
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CNC Rotary Transfer Machine Features Ballscrew Electromechanical Tooling Units
A CNC rotary transfer machine, a newly developed machine platform, is said to offer high rigidity, flexibility and accuracy for a range of high-volume, precision-machining applications.
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Reaming as an Alternative to Single-Point Boring
Using slip yokes as an example, reaming through holes can be more efficient and effective than single-point boring operations.
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An Automation Comeback Story
Alexandria Industries struggled with its first robotic machining cell. However, the aluminum extrusion components manufacturer — now with more than 20 robots — discovered that by simplifying and standardizing its automation strategy, it could reap the benefits of unattended machining even for relatively low batch sizes.
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