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Prioritizing Workholding Density Versus Simplicity

Modern Machine Shop

We’ve recently started utilizing fixtures which hold more parts to improve productivity. However, for some jobs it doesn’t seem to make sense to invest the time into setting these up. Can you help us discern when it makes sense to increase parts per fixture and when to keep it simple?

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Blueprints to Chips: CAD/CAM Tips and Tricks

Modern Machine Shop

In the ever-evolving world of metalworking and CNC machining, CAD/CAM software plays a crucial role in transforming digital designs into precise, high-quality parts. Advanced Tool Paths, Simple Implementation Source: GibbsCAM Programming advanced tool paths used to be a complex, time-consuming task. Hexagon thinks so.

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Knowledge for Lifetime

Dinesh Mishra

Every CNC machine is a highly productive asset, and the success or failure of the entrepreneur depends on this asset working 24×7 all around the year. Every CNC machine is a highly productive asset, and the success or failure of the entrepreneur depends on this asset working 24×7 all around the year.

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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. Image courtesy of GibbsCAM.

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Sandvik Coromant’s Westminster Facility Recognized as a Best Plant

Fabricating & Metal Work

Global leader in metal cutting, Sandvik Coromant , has earned the 2022 IndustryWeek Best Plants Award for its Westminster, South Carolina, production site. The award is given to North American manufacturing plants that lead their industries in outstanding operational excellence, customer service and employee engagement.

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Technical training can shorten the learning curve for non-technical positions

Control Engineering

Onboarding Insights Individuals in marketing, sales and management need to understand the products and services being sold by the company they work for to do their jobs properly. When an employee is lost after the first year, it can cost three times the employees annual salary to recruit, hire and train someone else.

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Celebrating Industry Samurai Awards & Conference 2022

Dinesh Mishra

Much like the last three years, this year too we had a week-long fiesta of conversations and presentations, except that this was the first year when we held an in-person concluding event which meant that the industry samurai awards word given 2 the winning organizations and individuals in person for the first time since the inception of the awards.