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Shop Tour Video: From Garage Shop to Leading Aerospace Supplier

Modern Machine Shop

Superior Joining Technologies is a family-owned job shop that transformed from a humble garage startup into a key aviation, aerospace, and medical industry supplier. And you’ll discover how their unique blend of machining and welding expertise drives success in aerospace and beyond. It gives us more control of lead times.

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Becoming a More Efficient Shop With the Right Processes and Software

Modern Machine Shop

Total cycle time for the canister parts is now about an hour, while order lead times and scrap rates are reduced by eliminating additional machining operations, and cutting out the now unneeded outsourced and internal processes such as tumble finishing and rinsing. This set of aerospace parts is set up in a Doosan DNM 4500S.

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True Five-Axis Machine Yields More Throughput, Greater Productivity

Mold Making Technology

The company also provides custom CNC machining of large metal parts for prototyping, automotive, aerospace and composite layup molds. Customers primarily fall into the automotive, rail and aerospace industries and roughly 30% of all mills are sold to moldmakers. CDM Tool & Mfg. Photo Credit: CDM Tool & Mfg.

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Embracing Automation: Strategies for Small to Medium-Sized Machine Shops

Modern Machine Shop

Incodema3D focuses on additive manufacturing technology for aerospace, defense and other industries. “If I had done it in 2018, I would have avoided a lot of issues and playing catch up,” Wolter said. Here are some of the highlights.

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TURN UP: Larger, Lighter Additive Parts

Additive Manufacturing

One significant research initiative underway to develop these types of more fuel efficient air transport technologies for the earliest possible deployment is the European Commission and European aerospace industry-funded Clean Sky 2 Programme , now entering its final phase. [2] This creates long lead times and high costs.

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Giving Australian Made a new heartbeat

Manufacturer's Monthly

Emerging entrepreneurs need to run a lot leaner in the early days considering the long lead time to get to market. Dielenberg first used the term ‘Applied Technology’ in a 2018 Melbourne Knowledge Week presentation. The term is now being used more commonly to describe Australia’s modern design and manufacturing landscape.

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Norm Fasteners Celebrating 50 Years & Three Generations

Fastener News Desk

Our plan is to be operative on Q1-2025 FND: There is a lot of ‘business talk’ in America about reshoring to increase US manufacturing, jobs, sustainability, and advancing industries of the future such as Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Aerospace and Construction. So we can say that Norm is already distributing in the US.