Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 20, 2022

A 2020 report released by Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work revealed that Australia ranked last with all other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) economies in producing manufactured goods. Only in October 2020, when the federal government invested $1.3

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The end result, shown in the video below, was an efficient solution that reduced the cycle time of each inspection by 20%. Then, with optimization tools in Isaac Sim, Techman explored a massive number of program options in parallel on NVIDIA GPUs.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 2, 2023

The shop’s range of capabilities also expanded through its ISO 9001 certification, which it earned just after moving to Estacada in 2020. The elimination of welding operations and component consolidation lowered both costs and cycle times while meeting the rest of the part’s requirements.

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that Ather Energy, one of India’s foremost electric motorcycle brands, has expanded its adoption of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to help the company reduce its design and engineering cycle time, improve product quality and achieve faster time to market.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 5, 2022

Photo Credit, all images: Formula Tooling Since 2020, Formula Tooling has built more than 90 molds, growing revenue to over $10 million in 2021. Formula Tooling Problem: Projects require high molding machine investment and are yielding long cycle times, balancing issues, labor concerns and material waste.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 28, 2025

Advanced CAM programming techniques can make significant differences in the cycle times and costs of jobs, but creating tool paths with these techniques has historically been a time-consuming process, limiting their use to mid- and high-volume parts.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There’s no need for clock synchronous application operation, because it’s a very simple application.The cycle times, ver roughly, are tens of millisecond. This also is not synchronized via a clock because it’s single axis and maybe not required, but the cycle times are a little more stringent.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Noah says he’s worked in the shop since he was a small kid, and bought the company from his father in 2022 after assuming leadership duties in 2020. At the same time, the shop makes time to serve local customers who may not otherwise have access to nearby job shops with the expertise to develop solutions for their needs.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Rising Demand for New Aircraft and MRO While commercial aerospace took a significant hit in 2020, the resilience of the defense sector helped to blunt some of the impact. In particular, companies with the right mix of experience and capabilities may find significant opportunity in the realm of blisk manufacturing.

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i4.0 today

JULY 19, 2022

The LCMR200 allows robots to work on items without first removing them from the module, which can save engineering costs and reduce cycle time. They include the RCX-Studio 2020 for programming SCARA, cartesian, and LCMR200 systems, and a software toolkit for RCX3 series controllers.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

PACON’s strenuous adherence to quality standards enables it to manufacture mission-critical parts, such as the housing for the MOXIE experiment box on NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. As such, the shop has standardized on five-axis machines and common workholding — as was covered in the 2020 Top Shops article.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 4, 2022

million new EVs were registered in Europe in the first six months of 2021, compared to 413 during the first half of 2020. Multi-task machines can eliminate machining processes and their associated time and cost, and also improve part quality. Meanwhile, Virta reports that 1.06 The machines also offer benefits for customers.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In March of 2020, the Department of the Navy published Marine Corps Order 4700.4 is to leverage additive manufacturing to reduce maintenance cycle times, curb supply chain backlogs, and place manufacturing capabilities at or near the point of need. Therefore, operational uptime and immediacy are paramount to mission success.

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MEM

APRIL 28, 2023

Software company Senseye’s True Cost Of Downtime 2022 report reveals unplanned downtime costs manufacturers at least 50% more today than it did in the period 2019 to 2020. To reduce time wasted changing tools, improve process stability and improve tool wear, manufacturers needed the ability to machine several features with a single tool.

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Modern Machine Shop

JUNE 20, 2023

A chance encounter with VersaBuilt Automation about an automated door opener turned into a longer meeting about the company’s Mill Automation System (MAS), and in September 2020, Yarur purchased an MAS for less money than he would have paid for a traditional robot several years beforehand.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 22, 2024

. “Businesses can tie discrete costs to line items, and see places where they may lose quality, or where they’re spending extra time on setups and tooling changes losing efficiency,” Shinbara says. The last major consideration all shop owners need to consider is using automation to support and enhance their workforce.

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MEM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Formerly known as PK Engineering and traditionally a supplier to laboratories and the instrumentation, aerospace and process industries, the company rebranded as NuMachine in 2020 as it looked to break into the automotive and electric vehicle sector.

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Additive Manufacturing

MAY 19, 2023

This approach should improve cycle time from development to production while improving operating efficiencies. These efforts are an extension of the ongoing work we began in late-2020 to streamline our operational footprint, focus our efforts, and better leverage our rich history in additive manufacturing. million to $7.0

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Automation Mag

JULY 29, 2024

This testing allows RoboTape and the customer to be confident that cycle times and application requirements can be met before committing to a project,” says Zac Cutt, research and development group leader at Innovative Automation. This service helps to alleviate any hesitancy to adopting a new technology.”

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

3D Printing will revolutionize mass-production by enabling our clients to manufacture highly complex parts, reduce cycle time, carbon emissions, energy costs and waste. We are focused on digital manufacturing as a growth driver and will create value through the promising market of metal additive manufacturing for our stakeholders.

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Modern Machine Shop

MAY 19, 2024

Principally, this was done to address supply shortages and shipping delays that plagued most of the industry during 2020-2022. The company continues to seek ways to drive cycle time down and is currently evaluating other revenue streams to keep the machines busy besides producing mold components.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Principally, this was done to address supply shortages and shipping delays that plagued most of the industry during 2020-2022. The company continues to seek ways to drive cycle time down and is currently evaluating other revenue streams to keep the machines busy besides producing mold components.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

West Ohio Tool , a second-generation custom tooling manufacturer based out of Russell Point, Ohio, learned this lesson during a leadership transition in early 2020 and has thrived since. By early 2020, she was officially CEO, with her husband Rea coming on as president to help fulfill some of Kaci’s father’s duties.

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Automotive Cycle time Aerospace Fit 98

Mold Making Technology

APRIL 6, 2023

Most of these molds use modern hot gating systems to reduce customer cycle time and decrease scrap. Bratton: In 2020, we purchased two new Mitsubishi wires and a mid-sized Yasda jig-boring machine. We mainly produce Class 101 tooling for the medical, consumer and automotive industries.

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3D printing Prototype  Automotive Cycle time 98

Mold Making Technology

JUNE 2, 2024

From 2017 to 2020, we focused on rebuilding customer confidence and then transitioning out 60% of the machines. They left in 1997 to pursue other moldmaking opportunities, returning in 2017 and purchasing the business in 2020. It has been a multistage process,” says Dan Gouge, vice president of sales. ” D ynamic Tool Corp.

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Dinesh Mishra

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

. • Digital Twins: Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical systems used for simulation and analysis, enabling real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, collision avoidance validation, program optimization, cycle time estimation, and manufacturing process optimization. Leaders must dedicate time to mitigating risks.

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