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A Simpler Way To Automatically Load Grinding Machines
Custom automatic loading systems for grinding machines often lack the flexibility to allow quick job change-overs. These off-the-shelf loading systems were designed with intuitive set up in mind. Â
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Incremental Automation Pays Dividends
While successful mold makers agree that automation is necessary to remain competitive, they often have different opinions about how to integrate automation. This mold maker does it in gradual phases, and in doing so, it drives shopfloor workers to roles of greater responsibility.
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Who's Afraid To Cut To Zero?
Most U.S. mold shops still leave extra stock on the cores and cavities of the molds they machine. This practice is unnecessary and wasteful, say proponents of advanced machining technology.
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Mold Machining On The Move
Rethinking the mold machining process leads to concepts worth considering, even for applications outside mold making.
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Adapting And Advancing
Assistive technologies for machinery and shop equipment allow blind workers at this machine shop to assume more advanced, independent roles in the production of aerospace components for Boeing.
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Optimize Cutting Efficiency, Optimize Throughput
A machining process based on maximizing cutting efficiency, rather than speeds and feeds, offers aerospace component manufacturers an option to high speed machining when high material removal rates are required. The best strategy may be to apply both machining concepts.
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Is Robotic Automation Becoming Practical For Low-Volume Production?
High-volume manufacturing and robotic automation go hand in hand. Machine-tending robots used in these production schemes need not be very flexible, as they may just load and unload one type of part hundreds of thousands of times.
Read MoreManufacturing's Challenges And Opportunities
Makers of manufactured goods face many challenges, including increased competition in worldwide markets; a demand for more complex products; shortened delivery times; lower production costs; higher quality and longer life products; and increased pressure from consumers for variety and options in the goods being produced. The "one style/color fits all" mentality behind the mass assembly line is no longer an accepted approach for large-scale production.
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How To Perfect A Machining Process (Or At Least How To Make It More Trustworthy)
Instead of inspecting machined parts, get to know the process better.
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Same Problem, Different Resolution
In shopfloor measurements, don’t count partial increments, but do keep a finer-resolution instrument handy.
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Two Machines In One Grinding System
A machine design mating two grinders together, with one control for the set, saves cost and floorspace compared to two separate machines.
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The Case For A Chromium-Based Coating
A cutting tool coating based on chromium can take even better advantage of the protective value of aluminum.
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