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Does Your Machine Shop Need a Human Resources Professional?
By: Peter Zelinski
Straton Industries employs a full-time HR person as part of its staff of 78. The owner now realizes the shop could have benefited from this help even when the staff was much smaller. Companies overlook the value and importance of this role.
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Why Was CNC Machining on Display at the Biggest Show for Additive Manufacturing?
By: Peter Zelinski
Machining is a complement to AM as a means of finishing metal 3D printed parts. The increasing adoption of AM for production means more need for postprocessing, particularly machining.
How AM Is Advancing into Cutting Tools: Photos from EMO
By: Peter Zelinski
The design freedom of additive manufacturing delivers increased performance to cutting tools. At the world’s leading exposition for machine tools, I saw various examples of this.
What Machining Facility Should MMS Write About Next? Maybe Yours
By: Peter Zelinski
The articles we develop often start with a manufacturing leader letting us know about the special way their shop is advancing or succeeding.
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Temperature-Activated Adhesive Overcomes Limits of Magnetic and Vacuum Workholding
By: Peter Zelinski
This new chemistry-based solution for five-sided machining allows for a diversity of metals and other workpiece materials to be used along with aggressive cutting forces.
Can This Metal 3D Printing System Make Production Additive Manufacturing Common in Machine Shops?
By: Peter Zelinski
A new metal AM system for batches of end-use parts was designed to permit productivity and machine pricing comparable to a CNC machine tool.
Video: How to Succeed at Lights-Out Machining — Findings from Top Shops Data
By: Peter Zelinski
Differences in machine shops’ profit margins suggest the value of improvement methodology, unattended machining and machine tool monitoring, as well as the effective combination of all three of these.
5 Impressions of EMO 2019, from Automated to Autonomous Manufacturing
By: Peter Zelinski
The robot show? Not quite that. But automation and the expectation of processes that can run unattended if needed are clearly core to manufacturing now.
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Increasing Employee Output Through Automation: Here is What We Found in 7 Recent Shop Visits
By: Derek Korn
Modern Machine Shop editors routinely visit machining facilities to report on shops that are succeeding. Here is what our editors found on seven recent shop visits, all related to using labor more efficiently.
Merging Advances: Lights-Out Machining Combines Automation and Focused Process Improvement
By: Peter Zelinski
One of the most significant developments in machining right now is easy to miss because it is the union of two different advances coming together.
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10 Takeaways on How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Influence CNC Machining
By: Peter Zelinski
The Consortium for Self-Aware Machining and Metrology held a promising first meeting at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Here are my impressions.
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Are Machine Shops Doing More Plastic Parts Production Due to 3D Printing?
By: Peter Zelinski
That is the suggestion of a survey finding. Facilities we associate with metalworking are using additive manufacturing for production of plastic parts.
