Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 2, 2023

Horizontal machining’s throughput increases have boosted McKenzie CNC’s capacity, with the shop taking on more work for new and existing clients. “One horizontal equals three verticals,” says Luke McKenzie, founder and owner of McKenzie CNC , a small machine shop in Estacada, Oregon.

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Modern Machine Shop

JULY 25, 2023

Photo Credit: Methods Machine Tools Methods Machine Tools , a supplier of high-quality, high-precision CNC machine tools, automation and engineering services, will host Machine Fest on October 4-5 at its national headquarters. Machine Fest will run from 9 a.m. ET each day at 71 Union Avenue in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 12, 2023

While manual support removal is still the status quo for many applications of metal AM, this article will address the transition to automated support removal (and finishing) solutions and consider the advantages and disadvantages of using Computer Numerical Control (CNC) systems versus the versatility and reliability of robots.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

has partnered with Hermle AG and made a decade-long commitment to increase automation to reduce setups, machine faster, improve unattended machining and increase throughput. Solution : Committed to multiphase capital expenditures that increase automation. They concluded that the best way to do this was to increase automation.

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MEM

JULY 10, 2023

VERICUT is the industry leader in machine simulation, verification, and optimisation for all types of CNC machine processes, including metal cutting, additive and hybrid manufacturing, composites and more. New ToolsUnited Interface Access tool and cutting data from over 40 tooling vendors using the new ToolsUnited interface.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 14, 2024

Uses 3D solid models and databases to offer mold and new product design and re-engineering of existing products. What is your favorite B A memory? I was taken by surprise and very humbled to receive the award from my peers — so much so that all I could say was “thank you” and “I love what I do.”

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 17, 2024

. “There is a great opportunity for business growth, the AMRF is centred around the aerotropolis, around new airport, and the AMRF is one programme within the Western Parkland City Authority’s broader responsibilities,” said Kitcher.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Those tools are making large-scale mold production, part machining, and process automation accessible to the broader aerospace, marine, and other industry sectors. We are seeing greater make-ability, supported into the future by the aerospace industry’s top CNC and motion technology platform.” The disruption promised by Industry 4.0

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The Automation Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Today my guest is Andy Watkins of Romi who introduces us to what's new with CNC Automation in Episode 141 of The Automation Podcast. Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion!

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 16, 2024

However, this new facility became not the second, but rather the third location for Cumberland. Victor Ross is one of three CNC programmers working for Cumberland Additive, and he is the one who works the farthest from the majority of the company’s CNC machines. Much of his time is focused on work performed in Texas.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 25, 2023

The types of CNC machines you use can make or break your position in your toolmaking niche. Our latest product introduced new features to cutting tools, allowing for more complex cutting tool geometries. We have introduced new geometries in software to manufacture special cutters for those processes.

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Mold Making Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Eight CNC machining centers support moldmaking work — six units are three-axis and two are five-axis machines, with one three-axis CNC dedicated to machining electrodes for the company’s two sinker EDMs. Circa 2021, Steve started looking for a new five-axis CNC mill. and the YCM Alliance.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 2, 2024

That article flirts with the question of whether AI can replace CNC programmers. Spoiler alert: It can’t, even though it can aid them by automating certain aspects of what they do. I am to cultivate curiosity about what interests them, so I can pose questions they would ask if they were with me. Not a machine.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 28, 2023

Machine tool automation is becoming an increasingly important part of today’s manufacturing landscape as more small and mid-size job shops look to improve their operations’ overall efficiency and profitability. Step #1: Recognizing Automation can be for all Shops — Even Yours Since the 1960s, automation has played a role in manufacturing.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The sheer amount of new technology, however, can be daunting to many. Curious to know what the most viewed products of the year were? To check out tech roundups from months prior, please browse the “ New Tech ” section on the MoldMaking Technology website. Automation. We’ve got you covered there, too.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 14, 2023

The company will demonstrate its OB7 models , showcase OB-Vision and allow visitors to test-drive its cobots at Automate 2023, Booth #2844. Because we have removed the need to program OB7, any employee can show the cobot what to do by walking it through the steps of a task. Installation of the OB7 can take approximately two hours.

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Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 3, 2023

Modern Machine Shop began writing about RAMTIC a quarter-century ago, and the RAMTIC system is still fundamental to Renishaw’s approach to shopfloor automation and process control. This dashboard tracks tool wear and shows the process updates Central sends to the machine CNC in response. Image courtesy of Renishaw.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 3, 2024

MMT staff continue to curate a list of relevant technologies in the form of roundups for readers to get a glimpse of what’s new and what’s improved. To get an even bigger picture of tech on the market, check the “ New Tech ” section of the MMT website, where new posts are published daily.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 18, 2024

Their success can be accredited to several robust investments in collaboration, new equipment, and a forward-looking approach to embracing new technologies. Spanning almost 7,500 square metres of floor space on a five-acre site, the hub offers a range of in-house computerised numerical control (CNC) services.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 15, 2023

While technology and automation can perform many routine tasks, it is not always able to replicate the creativity and problem-solving skills of human workers. The company made early investments in CNC plasma tables, plasma pipe tube cutters and robotic welders in its metal shop.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

FANUC America, a leading supplier of CNCs, robotics and ROBOMACHINES, introduces the next step in end-to-end digitalization tools for machine shops with the new NC Reflection Studio. This unique aspect provides the ultimate simulation accuracy by using the real CNC parameters, machine layout and kinematics. insight into the CNC.

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Automation Mag

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early computing, like Computer Numerical Control (CNC), aimed to enhance machining quality and productivity. They needed specialized expertise and new components. Beginning with CNC machining in the 1950s and 60s, industrial automation took its first strides with computing. Industry 3.0

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 18, 2023

With its usual business seemingly gone and no indication it would return, the machine shop needed to find and optimize a new niche to keep the doors open. So she turned to what she calls her — and everyone’s — best friend: YouTube. She scoured YouTube at night trying to figure out which direction to take the business.

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The Automation Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about 3D Sensors, IEC 61850, Condition Monitoring, Dual Booting, ITOps, Saving Energy, Python on PLCs, HDMI vs DP, and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday, February 16, 2023. Today we also have two new audio video files.

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Modern Machine Shop

OCTOBER 5, 2023

One of Northeast Tool’s military veteran CNC machinists runs a DMG Mori DMU 50 five-axis machine. The shop has recently hired machinists from Workshops for Warriors, a San Diego-based nonprofit that provides training and the opportunity to earn credentials in trades like CNC machining to veterans and military service members.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 3, 2023

They have improved their design and functionality using LINAK electric linear actuators with their new revolutionary globally patented product, the ezyAXS kitchen exhaust hood. The automation removes the need for using ladders and climbing on kitchen equipment, making the process significantly safer.

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The Automation Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Rockwell, Prosoft, Leviton, Locus, Cybersecurity, Intel, OnLogic, Siemens, Omron, Schneider and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Over on the Schneider Electric site we found three new docs.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 29, 2024

On the press brake side, how you bend metal fundamentally hasn’t changed in decades,” said Matt Garbarino, business unit leader for new machinery at CINCINNATI INC. (CI) But what has changed is how do we get to that formed part with a person that doesn’t have the skill set of understanding the fundamentals of forming?

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Modern Machine Shop

JULY 30, 2023

What has changed between then and now, of course, is that automotive manufacturers have achieved higher levels of accuracy in their design and manufacturing. Using its own Intelligent Process Control (IPC) software, the system can detect the presence of tool wear and send tool offsets to the machine tool CNC in real time.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 16, 2024

Middle school students gain a better understanding of the manufacturing industry by participating in the What’s So Cool About Manufacturing video contest. When asked about the motivation behind participating in a contest, one student expressed a passion for building and creating new things, particularly in STEM classes.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

of its operating software, which features an array of new hardware and software solutions for its integrated Sinumerik portfolio. With its new Sinumerik CNC software release 4.8, With its new Sinumerik CNC software release 4.8, Photo Credit: Siemens Siemens has released of version 4.8 Features of version 4.8

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whether it is additive manufacturing (AM), advanced manufacturing or smart manufacturing, we have entered what many are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0 While the jury is still out on what specific technologies make up Industry 4.0, So what does all this mean for you? The pace is only accelerating.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 3, 2024

Functional on both new and legacy automation, the system enables integrators to fix robot errors without leaving their office. It’s enough to put many small- to medium-size businesses (SMEs) off deploying automation altogether. But what if there was a way to monitor robots remotely?

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 7, 2022

Queensland composite panel supplier Link Composites uses Combilift forklifts to provide a safer, space-saving materials handling process at its new factory on the Sunshine Coast. What we’re trying to do is encourage a transition of current build methods to new products – composite products using advanced materials,” he said. “We

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Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 27, 2023

The show included demonstrations of machine tools, automation systems and other manufacturing technologies at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO) in Busan, South Korea. Attendees were able to see a total of 65 machine tools (40 of which were new) across the two locations. That's why R&D is critical.

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Modern Machine Shop

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The company also has a robust machine shop, where it has experimented with numerous forms of automation to meet customer demand. Since then, the company has expanded to 16 CNC milling machines and 14 lathes that produce components for the company’s fabrication business.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 5, 2023

United Grinding replaced the mechanical parts, controls, electrical systems and automated loading system, improving speeds and long-term reliability while keeping the original machine’s exacting tolerances and repeatability. It also changed the older control to a FANUC 30 i B CNC panel compatible with Windows 10 operating systems.

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