Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recession fears, rising interest rates, inflation, bank failures, labor shortages or high unemployment rates all lead to economic uncertainty and can make it difficult for businesses to secure funds. Good for a one-time influx of capital, but very difficult to stop once started. Your bank or finance company want you to be successful.

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ATS

MARCH 21, 2023

is increasingly commonplace in manufacturing, with one subset in particular gaining a strong foothold: machine learning. As manufacturers look for more innovative ways to increase stability, resiliency, responsiveness and, as always, efficiency and profit margins, machine learning and manufacturing are proving to be a natural fit.

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Artificial Intelligence Fit 52

Control Engineering

APRIL 4, 2023

Digital transformation insights Digital transformation’s growth is allowing companies to derive new insights and benefits that were not possible before and they are positioning themselves toward the machine economy. What is the machine economy? The relations between the three key enablers are shown in Figure 1.

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Supply Chain Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Artificial Intelligence 64

Modern Machine Shop

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A donut-shaped machine tool component called the AKZ FDS adapter illustrates the increasingly intricate links between additive manufacturing (AM) and CNC machining. A version of this article was our cover story in the December 2022 issue of Modern Machine Shop. The adapter still gets machined.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Photo Credit, clockwise from top left: GF Machining Solutions, IMCO Carbide Tool, DMG MORI USA and Capture3D. With Christmas right around the corner, MoldMaking Technology is gifting you, our readers, with an annual top-viewed article series covering products, profiles, tips and case studies, available each Monday leading up to the new year.

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3D printing Cycle time Automation Additive manufacturing 98

Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 26, 2023

Like other 3D printing technologies, AM offers higher design freedom than machining or forming metals, plastics or composites themselves, easily printing geometries that are impossible or extremely costly to achieve with conventional manufacturing technologies.

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Composites 3D printing Cycle time Lead Time 52

Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What machine(s) do I need and are they available? Do we have material? Dealing with any of one these things is not difficult on its own. axis CAM based on best-in-class technology to make the most of your machine investments: CAM for quote estimates. Mobile inspection for first article validation.

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