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Soft Skills Prove a Sharp Edge in Plastics Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

This is a far cry from its previous facilities, the 5,600-square foot shop Matt Danford wrote about in 2016 and the 1,000-square foot garage-and-basement combination Peter Zelinski wrote about in 2008. All photos by Modern Machine Shop.

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Airgas’ Sustainable Welding Innovations Improve Quality, Productivity and Efficiency

Fabricating & Metal Work

While we strive to put as many talented workers as possible in jobs within manufacturing, we also enable customers to do more with less, at higher quality and shorter lead times,” Williams noted. For example, the BotX cobot welding system, jointly developed by Red-D-Arc and Airgas, simplifies and streamlines welding operations.

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Learning From Additive Manufacturing Qualification In The United States Marine Corps 

Additive Manufacturing

All parts require an appropriate six-digit source, maintenance and recoverability (SMR) code and exist in a digital repository for information sharing and tracking. In 2016, Walters stated, “ We have to have the speed of trust in our young people to seize and hold the technological high ground. ”.

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Photonic Integrated Circuit Market to Surpass US$50B by 2035

i4.0 today

Large demand volumes are required to offset the initial cost of designing and manufacturing PICs, and production lead times can take months. The photonic integrated circuit market is expected to increase in size by almost 9 times in the next 10 years. Source: IDTechEx What are the PIC materials of the future?

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Creating Strong Digital B2B Channels at Industrial Companies

Fastener News Desk

This move is well considered, since research suggests that the number of B2B customers using digital self-service channels to research and evaluate products rose from 20 percent in 2016 to 30 percent in 2019 across industries. Likewise, companies should prioritize efficiency initiatives that will produce the greatest time savings.

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A Roadmap for Industrial Companies Going Digital

Fastener News Desk

This move is well considered, since research suggests that the number of B2B customers using digital self-service channels to research and evaluate products rose from 20 percent in 2016 to 30 percent in 2019 across industries. Commercial strategy and execution. Consider the creation of an e-commerce platform.

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Growth Requires Mold Builder/Molder to Shift Tooling Focus to Maintenance, Repair and Replacement

Mold Making Technology

Source (All Images) Dynamic Group Who is Dynamic Group? In 2016, the second generation assumed day-to-day operations, with Joe McGillivray becoming CEO. They then include our mold design manager and lead moldmaker from our tooling facility to discuss options and recommendations further.