Software

CAD/CAM

Machine Monitoring, Simulation Software Modulates Feed Rates along Tool Path

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) offers SpeedPro, a software suite designed to improve the safety and productivity of machining operations through machining process simulation and optimization of tool paths, particularly in the aerospace and automotive industries.

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Automation

Mitsubishi Electric Automation Now Offers After-Hours Emergency Parts Shipping

To benefit customers running second- and third-shift or 24/7 operations, the company will ship replacement parts after hours and on weekends and holidays.

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Try Humor to Connect to Younger Manufacturers on Social Media

Shop Floor Automations is trying something new: a Web comic intended to catch the attention of up-and-coming machinists on social media.

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CAD/CAM

CAD/CAM Software Grows Customer Base, Product Offerings

Forward Technologies needed to expand its customer base and broaden its capabilities. With Mastercam CAD/CAM software, it was able to do just that.

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Impressions of IMTS 2016

Things changed this year. New technologies and a new generation were prominent, and together they are helping to take this show into its next era.

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Making Connections

The networks of connected shopfloor devices that underlie implementations of data-driven manufacturing come together on many levels. All are worth noting.

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Basics

Data-Driven Manufacturing Deconstructed

"Data-Driven Manufacturing" can be broken into three areas for better understanding: the conceptual, the technical and the practical.

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CAD/CAM

CAM Helps Medical Component Manufacturer Turn Ideas into Reality

With the new version of Surfcam by Vero Software, USGI Medical manufactures precision medical devices and reduces cycle time and improves machinery usage. Watch a video interview with USGI’s Marko Caric at the bottom of this story to learn how he uses Surfcam to turn his ideas into reality.

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CAD/CAM

Chip Removal Chamber of Horrors

This case history from Mastercam is appropriately themed for Halloween.

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Italian IIOT: Cautious but Confident

Although The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) was a popular topic at Bi-Mu, the biennial machining and manufacturing exhibition in Milan, Italy, technology suppliers seem to have adopted a cautious outlook.

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