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June 2019 Product Spotlight: Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM)

This month’s Modern Equipment Review Spotlight focuses on different types of electrical discharge machining equipment.
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When Automated Production Turning is the Low-Cost Option

For the right parts, or families of parts, an automated CNC turning cell is simply the least expensive way to produce high-quality parts. 
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Robots / Training

Can Vision and Artificial Intelligence Make Every Robot Collaborative?

That is the aim of this Boston-area startup. This year, it expects to come to market with technology to make even fast and powerful industrial robots safe to approach. The technology promises to eliminate the need for guarding around them — safety measures that might not be as safe as you think.

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Vocademy’s Maker Skills Academy. 

Vocademy Maker Skills Academy Intended for Students Seeking College Alternative

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NTMA Partners with Blockchain Supply Chain Firm SyncFab

SyncFab uses blockchained “smart contracts” and data-driven methods to optimize the external supply chain available to OEM buyers.

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Hexagon's SurfCam 2020.0.

Hexagon's SurfCam 2020.0 Features Barrel Cutter Support

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GMN’s Prelub GP.

Oil-Air Spindle Lubricator Includes Rapid Error Correction

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Siemens Answers with the Most Innovative CNC Solutions for Machine Tool Technology

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June Issue

Trusting Machine Vision

May backlogs and exports chart

While Slowing, Metalworking Index Still in Growth Mode

Supplier deliveries, production, employment and new orders supporting the industry.

Chips curl off a shaft as a ceramic cutting tool insert takes a profile cut on a CNC turning machine.

CAD/CAM / CAM for Production

7 Tips for Programming Ceramic Cutting Tools

Ceramic tools require different thinking and a willingness to tweak tool paths developed with carbide in mind.

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Plastics Engineering & Technical Services Inc. (PETS) at Amerimold 2019
Additive Manufacturing

A Taste of What's New at Amerimold, Day One

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Gear Production

Eyeing Automotive Machining Applications in Taiwan

Matsuura five-axis pallet-fed MX-850 machining center
Robots & Automation

3 Mindset Changes for Lights-Out CNC Machining

A SmartCorrect gaging station uses a rotating turntable fixture and digital probes to check profile accuracy and find the point of maximum ovality on the circumference of an engine piston
Data-Driven Manufacturing

Data-Driven Manufacturing Scales Down

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Top Shops

Top Shops: Do You Have What It Takes?

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Training & Personnel

5 Things New CNC Operators Must Know

Mastercam 2020
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Knowledge Centers

Knowledge Centers are well organized collections of practical information on specific topics. This is the place to go to get grounded on technologies and best practice.

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For This Mold Shop, the Key to Closing the Skills Gap is Emotional Intelligence

Thanks to a culture change founded on a commitment to emotional intelligence, this mold supplier solved its skilled labor problem and increased throughput per employee.

The reflection of a diamond turning tool is clearly visible in the space mirror it is cutting.

Offline CNC Makes Precision Productive

Relieving the control of its calculation burden helps meet demand for increased volumes, faster deliveries and greater varieties of complex, mirror-finish components machined with diamond tools.