Modern Machine Shop

MAY 28, 2023

The shrink-fit tooling system uses coolbyLight operator guidance that enables an operator to know when the system’s toolholders are cooled to a safe temperature via a green light illumination. Cody Mitchell, territory manager at Zoller, gives a demo of the powerShrink 600.

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Fastener News Desk

MARCH 29, 2024

They may be dull as dirt, but they’re also in everything: “What makes us a unique fit is two things,” began Strandquist. One is fasteners, which make up a huge percentage of the components in a bill of materials, but only five percent or something of a manufacturer’s total spend, on average. WAG is here with a survival guide.

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ATS

JULY 28, 2022

gathered from equipment sensors, used by suppliers and distributors and monitored for quality assurance and tracking — blockchain is a natural fit as a powerful data sharing, tracking and shielding solution for industrial companies. Every step of the manufacturing process, for instance, can be shared, monitored and analyzed in real-time.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 25, 2023

As in other areas of edge computing, there is no one size fits all solutions, even in the same application the topology of the installation may determine if it’s better to fit several small distributed edge devices, or to bring signals and data into a larger, more centralized unit.”

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Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 4, 2023

billion turnover in 2022, 168,000 employees, present in 75 countries), Saint-Gobain PAM has been the leading expert in water supply pipelines for more than 150 years and equips more than 100 capitals and 1,000 towns worldwide each year with its range of ductile iron pipes, fittings, joints and accessories. As part of this vast group (€51.2

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Dinesh Mishra

JANUARY 30, 2023

Eventually, these hairpins need to fit into the exact grooves punched or cut into the stator stack sheets. For the machines being used for precision applications, most of the critical raw materials like CNC, LM guideways, ball screws, and bearings have to be imported due to a lack of local source of supply.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In Booth B7513, BLM GROUP USA (Novi, MI) will be demonstrating its LT7 lasertube with a new thread insert unit, which automatically installs thread inserts into laser cut/drilled holes using press fitting. A simple and widely relied upon joining technique, press fitting relies upon force and friction to hold two components together.

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Foley

JULY 11, 2023

Companies that may be concerned about the viability or performance of a supplier should consider seeking licenses or other rights that would enable to obtain vital components from another source if the supplier does not meet its obligations. Back to the Table of Contents Cybersecurity Threats in the Manufacturing Industry AUTHORS Aaron K.

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Control Engineering

MAY 1, 2023

Raj Batra, president of Siemens Digital Industries USA and of the Siemens Foundation, an organization designed to help fill skills gap, opened the 2023 Manufacturing in America Summit by discussing how digitalization is helping automation advance manufacturing and other industrial applications. Courtesy: Mark T.

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