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The Shift Toward Smarter Shops: Real-World Stories of Data-Driven Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

The article shows how AI can be used to amplify human expertise and allow shop-specific knowledge to seamlessly integrate with the shop floor. This article is clear evidence that AI’s capabilities will only grow as digitalization becomes commonplace in job shops, producing ever-higher quantities of AI fuel: data.

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Five-Axis CAM Strategies Cut Cycle Time for Two Shops

Modern Machine Shop

MMG (formerly named NSA Industries) is a leading manufacturer partner to OEMs and product manufacturers, offering a full suite of in-house metal manufacturing and value-added capabilities across a range of markets including semiconductors, medical, robotics, aerospace and defense.

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Soft Skills Prove a Sharp Edge in Plastics Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

Part quantities range from 50 pieces to 40,000, and typically fall into the medical or semiconductor industries, with some parts for the chemical industry and the occasional bobbin for electronics in the aerospace industry. This range of clients has helped the shop weather downturns in any one market.

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MoldMaking Technology's Most-Viewed Case Studies of 2023

Mold Making Technology

Read the full article. Large Hybrid Steel Insert Solves Deformation, Dimensionality, Cycle Time Problems Linear AMS , a company that originated in 2003 as a toolmaker and molder, swiftly adopted metal additive manufacturing (AM) early in its journey. Read the full article. Read the full article.

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Combining Innovation and Artistry to Build Complex, Precision, Multi-Cavity Molds

Mold Making Technology

ATM manufactures complex, precision, multi-cavity molds for the plastic injection molding industry for consumer packaging, specialty closures, aerospace and medical industries. AS9100 certification demonstrates our competence in the aerospace industry, emphasizing product safety and reliability.

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Advanced Tool Paths, Simple Implementation

Modern Machine Shop

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. Five-axis dynamic milling is chief among these.

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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.