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The state of Australia’s defence manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

billion from its defence division, though military contracts form a smaller part of its broader operations. Australia manufactures a range of defence goods, focusing on naval vessels, armoured vehicles, aerospace systems, and munitions. trillion in 2016-17 to nearly $2 trillion in 2020-21. Boeing, in third place, brought in $33.39

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Shop Moves to Aerospace Machining With Help From ERP

Modern Machine Shop

However, when oil and gas work dried up with due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Operations Manager Kody Guidry saw it was time to diversify. ” The shop eventually settled on moving into aerospace machining, but before it could make the move, it needed to achieve AS9100 certification. .” Help From the Pros.

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Soft Skills Prove a Sharp Edge in Plastics Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

” These companies and their support network form a manufacturing ecosystem, but many of these companies specialize in metal, not plastic. . “Connecticut has a long history of manufacturing and machine shops,” Nancy says. “We have Pratt and Whitney here. We have Sikorsky. We have Electric Boat General Dynamics.”

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Virtual Incision’s mini surgical robot arrives at ISS

Robotics Business Review

Its MIRA device offers a small form factor RAS option roughly 1,000 times lighter than existing technologies. “As The platform received IDE approval in October 2020 , followed by approval for an IDE supplement in April. Virtual Incision believes the miniaturization of RAS could offer a breakthrough in remote robotic surgery.

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Mixed Bag Ahead for US Metalworking Economy

Modern Machine Shop

consumption of machine tools and in the Gardner Business Index, which has shown positive growth since the last half of 2020. The GBI has been in positive territory almost since the beginning of 2017 (with a relatively short drop in the second half of 2019 followed by the COVID drop in 2020) and posted an all-time high in 2021.

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Siemens Announces new Strategic Collaboration with Xerox® Elem™ Additive Solutions

Fabricating & Metal Work

Xerox ElemX liquid metal 3D printer equipped with Siemens SINUMERIK CNC control system ElemX is a groundbreaking 3D metal printer that’s simpler and safer to use and addresses supply chain resiliency for transportation, aerospace, defense and industrial manufacturing. In fiscal 2020, Siemens Group USA generated revenue of nearly $20 billion.

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3D printing with limitless design

Manufacturer's Monthly

CNC Design has more recently extended into additive manufacturing through VSF, a solution for 3D manufacturing of large parts for different industries such as construction, aerospace, marine and mining. In late 2020, SCG 3D printed a 102 square metre research and development centre in Thailand using CNC Design’s VSF onsite printer.