Data-Driven Manufacturing

New Venture Poised for Industry 4.0

The synergies made possible by the Walter-Comara collaboration enable Walter to digitize and connect its tools with improved precision and sophistication, allowing optimization of real-time data.

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Guiding Students Toward Manufacturing as a Career

Machine shop owners are well aware of the need to attract younger people to a career in manufacturing, which can be achieved in a number of ways, including targeted outreach.

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My Turn on Emerging Technology

November’s My Turn column looks at the way new technologies affect perspectives on the shop floor.

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Automation

Reducing Production Times with Robotic Automation

A complete overhaul of its processes using lean principles helped this shop improve production by almost 90 percent.

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Automation

Increase Throughput with Off-the-Shelf Automation

This automated parts accumulator is designed to complement any bar-fed CNC lathe, providing hours of profitable, unattended operation by safely collecting and organizing finished parts.

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Metrology Looks at Industry 4.0

Every shop makes parts, but making them correctly is the role of measurement and inspection.

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Flexible Automation on a VMC

Robot loading and unloading of the workholding that is used in the machining center facilitates the ability to change jobs during an unattended run.

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The Next Industrial Revolution Nears

Having an understanding of the term Industrial Internet of Things is important because from what I’m hearing and reading, this emerging technology gives rise to what is predicted to be the next Industrial Revolution.

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The Digital Driven Machine Shop of the Future

How CAM software, the cloud and the Internet of Things are converging to change the way our industry is doing business.

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Moving Automation In

This traditional Ohio-based screw machine shop worked with a system integrator and used its in-house expertise to create a sophisticated production cell to go along with its other automation forays.

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Marubeni Citizen CNC
SolidCAM
Efficient, Durability, Advanced CBN Abrasives
SPC Innovations, In-machine gaging and attachments
Techspex
Horn USA
Kyocera
World Machine Tool Survey
Length and Diameter Gages, Broken tool Detectors