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How this Job Shop Grew Capacity Without Expanding Footprint

Modern Machine Shop

As Siemens puts it, “Xcelerator allows your engineers, suppliers, vendors, partners and customers to work simultaneously from a single source of truth anytime, anywhere, from any device.” With the optimized cutting parameters, they were able to reduce cycle times by 25% while extending tool life.

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IMTS: Machine tool hardware, software, efficiency, integration tools

Control Engineering

This feature enhances productivity by minimizing the time needed to pair the right tool with the right machine at the right time. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE): Analyze MyPerformance/OEE allows the important indicators to be identified for the improvement of machine or work cell utilization to eliminate production bottlenecks.