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Upcoming Webinar: Integrated Robotic and Machine Tool Automation
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Learn how adding robotic automation to your manufacturing process can be a simple, cost-effective solution to greatly enhance your productivity....MORE
Ask the Expert: Computer Numerical Control
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Initiate a dialogue with some of the industry's most respected experts. Ask Mike Lynch a question related to CNC....MORE
The Need to Know Is Basic
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Modern Machine Shop
An MTConnect-enabled monitoring system gives this shop a clear and simple picture of machine tool usage....MORE
MTConnect Is For Real
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Modern Machine Shop
Introduced at IMTS 2008, this communications protocol for CNC machines and other manufacturing equipment is already helping shops and plants implement effective machine monitoring systems. Although these "early adopters" are motivated by the long-term promise of enterprise-wide efficiency gains, their experience with pilot projects shows that benefits derived in the short term are substantial and worthwhile. ...MORE
Retrofits Lift Venerable Machines to New Heights
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Modern Machine Shop
Retrofitting nine 20-year-old skin mills at Boeing’s plant in Auburn, Washington reduced machine downtime and improved both safety and productivity.
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Making Lean Connections
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Matt Danford
When Nilpeter embarked on a lean initiative 14 months ago, no one at the printing press manufacturer had any inkling that they had already taken an important first step.
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Read In to Digital Readout
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Lori Beckman
Recently, I came across an article online from Production Machining that sums up five options that are cited to produce higher productivity in a shop. The first option jumped out as something I could pass on to my readers: “Add a digital readout (DRO) to any mill, lathe or grinder currently without one.”
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Software Generates Tool Paths for Mazatrol Matrix Control
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Modern Machine Shop
Shops using Mazak machines with the Matrix control can now take advantage of CamLink’s time-saving features that are said to enable more control over the machine.
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Standard Software Addresses Common Machining Challenges
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Derek Korn
These low-cost VMCs come standard with a number of software features that enable them to compensate for machining’s inherent physical and thermal challenges.
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