Worker training will be key to implementing Industry 4.0 in manufacturing, speakers at a presentation said today.
Mikron Tool expands its CrazyMill Cool P&S milling cutter family
Five-axis machining has progressed from exotic to mainstream over the past few years.
Bosch said it is moving forward with volume production of silicon carbide chips.
Guill Tool has announced its intent to offer merchant machining services to the global aerospace industry.
New program empowers manufacturers through customer care for the life of their machines
In a perfect CNC world, the first part is always a good one. There’s no need for extra blanks or barstock. Setup times are only as long as is needed to swap out a few tools and load a new program. There’s never a crash, never the need to reprogram an inefficient bit of code. The operator just pushes the green button and out pops a finished workpiece minutes or hours later.
Drilling advancements have spurred the evolution of oil and gas operations from simplistic single-well pad fields to more complex multi-well pads. Today, many producers are using fracking and lateral drilling techniques to place 10 or more wells on one pad.
I just returned from IMTS in Chicago and my first thought was, “where will I be able to rack up all those bonus steps I got last week?” On the easiest day, I walked 7.9 miles, and I topped 10 miles on two other days. It’s easy to understand why.
The world of quality measurement devices and software continues to expand, and IMTS years are especially exciting times. If there is a theme in the many offerings—new devices, new software—it might be how quality devices are continuing to burrow their way into the heart of manufacturing on the shop floor.