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Leadership Skills Also Characterize A Champion
Earlier this month, I had a chance to visit Calgary, Alberta to see some of the international WorldSkills Competition (WSC). This biennial event, which moves to a different city and country each time, is an opportunity for students in occupational trades to compete with their international peers. This year, students from 51 countries participated in events ranging from cooking, hairdressing and plumbing to welding, mechatronics, CNC turning and CNC milling. The team from the United States entered students in both of these last two categories. The results of their efforts revealed more than I expected.
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miView: A New Perspective On Machine Performance
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New On MMS Online
MMS Online Launches New Training Zone
See the various ways that shops are succeeding in this role by visiting our new Training Zone. In addition to articles on training and personnel, the zone also includes a live expert on in-shop training who can directly answer your personnel-development questions.
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Improving Milling Accuracy
How you use the machining center is just as important as the quality of the machine itself. This tutorial covers machining center leveling, alignment and temperature—as well as tool-change and setup procedures. When it comes to achieving tight tolerances on machining centers, how you use the machine is as important as the quality of the machine itself.
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Case History
Machining Efficiency Starts With Design
DFMA software is a combination of two tightly integrated, complementary tools: Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Manufacture (DFM). A job shop in Wisconsin uses this combination software to quote costs, analyze designs, implement process controls and communicate with customers and the supply chain. By identifying the main cost drives and responding to them before a design goes into production, the shop makes its machining operations much more efficient and profitable.
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Our Next Issue
More On Machining Titanium
Feature articles in Modern Machine Shop’s October issue will focus on milling and machining centers. The cover story will discuss one approach, adopted by a Boeing plant, to finding the right machine to mill titanium. Another article will show how that “right machine for aluminum” turned out to be a 30-taper VMC.
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