Stephanie Hendrixson

Stephanie Hendrixson Contributing Editor, Modern Machine Shop

Medical

Additive Manufactured Fixation Plates Better Match Patient's Jaw Bone

A combination of selective laser melting and NiTi material enabled the creation of plates matched to both the shape and stiffness of natural bone.

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Turn/Mill

Gantry-Type Milling Machine Minimizes Cycle Times

Soraluce’s PXG-W gantry-type multitasking milling machine is said to reduce the number of clamps required and minimize cycle times and potential errors on large-sized workpieces.

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Measurement

Surface Finish Probe Expands CMM Capability

Renishaw's SFP2 surface finish probe is designed for use with its REvo five-axis measurement system on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

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3D Printing Versus Additive Manufacturing: What’s the Difference?

Stories within the August issue of Additive Manufacturing magazine address this question.

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Basics

Why (and How) to Benchmark Your Machining Business

Doug Woods, president of AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology, shares the importance of benchmarking your manufacturing business and how the Top Shops program and conference can help.

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Workholding

3D Printing for “Hybrid” Tooling

An aerospace contractor added a 3D printer to help make custom tooling. In many cases, this means combining printed and machined components.

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Bringing Automation to a Job Shop

A father-daughter team hopes to see big gains from the combination of a new HMC and a pallet-handling system to be installed later this year.

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Five-Axis

Automation Advances at FANUC 2017 Private Show

Updates unveiled at the company’s annual event promote higher-volume production, easier programming and better monitoring capability across product lines.

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Additively Manufacturing a Large Component with a Small Work Envelope

Airbus successfully reduced the weight of an aircraft partition by redesigning it for additive manufacturing. The large component was produced in pieces, with connection features built-in.

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Automation

Modular Machine Decouples Material Handling, Processing Units

Concept Laser’s “AM Factory of Tomorrow” concept combines multiple machines and systems to enable automated, digitized and interlinked industrial series production.

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Large-Format 3D Printer Offers High Throughput

The Stratasys Fortus 900mc FDM 3D printer is designed for building functional prototypes, manufacturing aids and tooling as well as for short-run digital manufacturing.

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Online System Helps Manage Metal AM Projects

Sculpteo's Agile Metal Technology is an online agent-based system that helps designers and manufacturers analyze and evaluate metal additive manufacturing (AM) projects.

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