Data-Driven Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 Through Metrology's Eyes

High precision 3D laser and CT scanning bring all the “big data” directly from shop floor to top floor.

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Improving Automation with Collaborative Robots

Learn more about collaborative robots, which are designed to ease the transition to automation by working directly alongside employees, with no need for safety caging.

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Mazak Broadens Management Team

In its ongoing efforts to ensure continued business stability and future company growth, Mazak has already put into place the complete digital integration of its factory and, most recently, added a new executive vice president to its leadership team.

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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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Automation

Increasing Demand Calls for Automation

This company explored automated processes with a robot they previously purchased but had yet to use.

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Machine Monitoring Helps Job Shop Become Lean

A Kaizan event led to GEM Manufacturing’s investment in an eNetDNC system for its shop to address inefficiencies with CNC program transfers and file revision control.

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Video Preview: Incorporating CNC Automation

Shop owner Steve Meyer's video interview summarizes how his shop incorporated CNC automation into the traditionally manual shop.

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Automation for Turning Applications

Automation systems can be configured to support many different requirements, including applications.

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Basics

Fast ROI Convinces Shop to Add Robotic Automation

“If we get a job that requires a process we don’t normally do, we have very few other shops in the area we can call on, so we figure out how to do it ourselves. This often means adding new technology,” says Cody Dolce, owner of Glacier Tool & Die.

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SolidCAM
Star swiss-type automatic lathes
Kyocera
Marubeni Citizen CNC
Efficient, Durability, Advanced CBN Abrasives
SPC Innovations, In-machine gaging and attachments
World Machine Tool Survey
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Marubeni Citizen CNC