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Does Metal Additive Manufacturing Belong in a Machine Shop? The Answer Is Mixed

Modern Machine Shop

A article we recently posted describes many ways that machining and additive manufacturing (AM) go together. Namely: Do machining providers and additive manufacturing go together? Should machine shops adopt AM? To this extent, the article’s title was valid, and still is.

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Digital Transparency in Machining Key to Multi-Site Additive Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

When 3D printing contract manufacturer Cumberland Additive recently acquired the metal additive manufacturing operations of Stratasys Direct, the move doubled the company’s number of metal additive manufacturing (AM) machines and gave the company an additional production facility in its home region of Austin, Texas.

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Metrology: Automation’s Unsung Hero

Modern Machine Shop

When contemplating automation, it is easy to envision a robot moving material from point A to point B, parts coming out of a machine and being ferried by conveyors to the next step, or pallet changers reloading fresh stock back into a machine. Utilizing the U.S. Since 2014, however, its total spending had been steadily declining.

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Can Connecting ERP to Machine Tool Monitoring Address the Workforce Challenge?

Modern Machine Shop

Machine tool monitoring is not really just machine tool monitoring. When the activity report from a machine tool monitoring system shows a particular machine being out of cycle for an unexpected stretch of time, the cause of that lost productivity typically is not the machine itself. Yes, says Ellis.

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Lessons on the Journey Toward Shop Automation

Modern Machine Shop

Has your shop employed an automation solution — a process, technology or strategy that led to increased production, improved quality or lights-out machining — that you believe could help the cause of American manufacturing? Engineering (the shop profiled in our cover feature), implement dramatic changes swiftly.

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What Do You Really Win as a Leadtime Leader?

Mold Making Technology

The cover of MoldMaking Technology ’s June issue, a full feature story in the June issue and online, a video feature filmed at your shop to accompany the article (which appears online and is shown at the Amerimold Expo Leadtime Leader booth) and a guest spot on MMT Chats. A couple of shops already have! Absolutely!

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The Intersection of Work, Play, Technology and Independence

Modern Machine Shop

In the world of metalworking and CNC machining, we see this kind of facilitation made possible through digital tools such as CAD and CAM software that enable ideas to manifest into real-world solutions. But, as you’ll read, the story of RapAdapt is about much more than only the digital manufacturing tools.