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Today, laser technology in manufacturing touches all of our lives on a daily basis; lasers cut air bag material and weld air bag detonators for our in-car safety; lasers weld the batteries in many of our mobile devices; lasers drill aero-engine components for planes; lasers cut the glass for our smart phones and tablets screens; lasers weld the drivetrains in our cars and trucks; lasers cut medical stents that increase and enhance our lives, just to name a few.

There is still a lot of talk about breaking down the “silos” within a manufacturing enterprise. Siemens, like other software providers, is trying to address the problem by offering toolsets that are easier to integrate and work together.

FABTECH will be the first large-scale manufacturing trade show to return to McCormick Place in Chicago, September 13-16. The announcement comes as the state of Illinois moves into its final reopening phase.

Manufacturing in this century is dependent upon a greater range of activities, technologies and knowledge than ever before.

Digital twins, digital thread leverage data to improve manufacturing.

Laser marking is fast, flexible, repeatable, durable and it’s a one-button operation.

Manufacturing Engineering editor-in-chief Alan Rooks is retiring.

Key steps are virtual twins and real relationships.

An adaptive manufacturing strategy gets every team essential to a product’s success communicating and collaborating in real time.

Sandvik Coromant’s Package Selector Application analyzes a 3D CAD model of a product and recommends the smallest packaging possible using an AI algorithm that calculates the product’s rotation.