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Optimas’ World-Class Manufacturing Expands Capacity to Near-Shore Production in North America

Fastener News Desk

The Mexico production center will complement world-class fastener manufacturing facilities in Wood Dale, IL, and Droitwich Spa in the United Kingdom and continue the company’s near-shoring efforts to minimize supply chain risk.

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Machine Data Collection in Manufacturing

ATS

Network data Some modern equipment comes with IoT sensors installed that can send data to other systems such as the CMMS. In other cases, manufacturers retrofit machines with IoT devices. Yield improvement: Process data reveals sources of variation that result in product being outside of specifications.

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Supply Chain: Managing Additive Manufacturing Variation, Qualification, & the Entire Process 

Additive Manufacturing

In recent years additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and materials have evolved into being able to achieve industrial-grade parts production, which means AM parts are now entering the supply chain. And using additive manufacturing, of course with high quality processes, then you can really recreate the physical component anywhere.”.

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ERP Empowers Mold Builder to Increase Speed, Efficiency, Accuracy

Mold Making Technology

Source | Delta Mold Inc. Source | Delta Mold Inc. we work hard to stay diversified and agile, to understand the needs and requirements of our customers, and to be their go-to source of injection and compression molds,” Ernie Young, Delta Mold president, explains. “As the primary mold builder in the southeast U.S.,

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Medical Device Design Considerations with Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing

The medical device market has historically been one of the pioneer industries using additive manufacturing (AM) for production. In fact, according to FDA’s analysis of medical device clearances, additive manufacturing has been used in medical device production as early as 2008 (Ricles, L & Oh, S. RAPID, May 2014).

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Learning From Additive Manufacturing Qualification In The United States Marine Corps 

Additive Manufacturing

Within additive manufacturing, there is a big focus on part and application qualification. related to the Additive Manufacturing Policy. To understand the qualification standards of the Marine Corps is to understand the bins system. This takes time and requires a collaborative effort amongst OEMs, users, and research institutes.

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The Olander Company, Inc. Achieves ISO-Certification

Fastener News Desk

The wholesaler’s Quality Management System has met the standards for official accreditation. has confirmed last month that they are now certified by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, as meeting the high standards for quality outlined in their ISO 9001:2015 edition. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.