Software

ModuleWorks, Siemens Partnership Adds Collision Avoidance to CNCs

The latter’s Sinumerik 840D sl controller can now be equipped with the former’s real-time crash-detection and collision avoidance software.

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Machine Shops: Own Your Industrial Revolution

It’s time to launch a new industrial revolution in your own shop or plant. Call it [Your Shop Name Here] 4.0.

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Milling Machine’s CNC Leaves a Mark

When the prototyping process wasn't able to keep pace with creativity, installing a Heidenhain CNC on this manufacturer's Webb milling machine enabled faster machining, prototyping for this tattoo-machine developer.

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CAD/CAM

FEA for DFM

Shops that offer design for manufacturability advice can reduce customers’ machining cost and complexity. This shop leverages finite element analysis as part of its sophisticated DFM efforts, and this also helps in its efforts to establish long-term relationships with its customers’ engineers.

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Top Shops

Top Shops Benchmarking: Providing Direction, Gaging Performance

Top Shops benchmarking data helps guide shops’ improvement efforts and enables them to gage where they rank among industry-leading machining businesses.

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TDM Systems Launches Solar Eclipse Twitter Contest

Participants can tweet their most dramatic pictures of the solar eclipse August 21, 2017, for a chance to win a Wi-fi enabled radio.

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Managing Cutting Tool Data in the Cloud

Shops are moving to data-driven manufacturing step by step. One of these steps is to access and manage cutting tool data with cloud-based, vendor-neutral databases and applications such as MachiningCloud. A review of this development shows what implementing Industry 4.0 might look like.

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CAD/CAM

Case Study: In-House Gear Production Leads to Improved Quality, Speed

Advanced Design Technologies LLC’s subcontracted work led to quality issues, among other problems. Vero Software’s Surfcam 2017 R1 increased overall efficiency and quality.

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EMO 2017: A Sneak Peek

EMO, the world’s largest metalworking show will be back in Germany September 18-23 with the theme of “connecting systems for intelligent production.”

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CAD/CAM

CAD/CAM Software Gets Improvements for Closed-Cavity Milling

Westec 2017: DP Technology’s Esprit 2017 software release features simplified user interaction, smarter toolpath technology and faster programmability partly by upgrading the machine and toolpath performance of Esprit ProfitMilling inside closed cavities.

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