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Electromobility and Digitalization Drive Future Cutting Tool Technology
MMT European Correspondent Barbara Schulz gets the lowdown on a new cutting tool team set to bring cutter and material-related technology to the next level.
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Four European Countries in Three Days
The German Association of Tool and Mould Makers‘ (VDWF) networking event for young entrepreneurs took around 40 moldmakers on a three-day trip around Lake Constance in October 2017 to visit OEMs and innovative mold shops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Realizing EDM's Full Potential with Automation
EMO Hannover 2017 was a showcase for EDM developments, automation solutions and software for data-driven manufacturing.
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Technology Tuesday: EMO Wrap Up on EDM, Automation and Industry 4.0
EMO Hannover 2017 was a showcase for EDM developments, automation solutions and software for data-driven manufacturing. EDM technology is evolving through new machine designs, thermal stability, powerful generators, parts handling robots, linear handling systems and software solutions for future Industry 4.0 infrastructures.
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International Perspective: Tooling Systems Squeeze More Production out of Each Mold
Multi-component tooling systems squeeze more production out of each mold.
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Improving Five-Axis Mold Finishing Operations
In an interview with MMT’s European Correspondent Barbara Schulz, Open Mind’s Peter Brambs explains how its five-axis tangent plane machining strategy can achieve time savings of up to 90 percent.
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Driving a New Generation of Toolmaking
Audi is one car manufacturer making its production—including its toolmaking—fit for the future with Industry 4.0 and metal 3D printing.
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EMO: Mold Technologies, and USA and Mexico Metalworking Trends
Not only is Gardner Business Media co-hosting a “Metalworking Growth Seminar” at EMO in Hannover, Germany this month, our European correspondent, Barbara Schulz, who has been lending MMT her International Perspective, is headed there too. While not solely dedicated to the tool and moldmaking sector, it exhibits a whole new range of machines, tools and solutions mold builders can surely benefit from.
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International Perspective: Real-Time Visibility
Phoenix Contact, German Toolmaker of the Year, embraces the concept of Industry 4.0.
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Upbeat Mood at Europe’s Top Moldmaking Event
At the close of Moulding Expo (MEX) 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany exhibitors, visitors and organizers look back at a very successful show, which has once again stimulated new business throughout the German, European and international tool and moldmaking industry.
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International Perspective: The Electrochemical Mold Polishing Advantage
This process is said to reduce surface roughness caused by porosity, micro-cracks and the EDM recast layer by as much as seven times.
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Int'l Perspective: Think Global, Act Local, and Cooperate
The new generation of company owners and managers count on cooperation with other mold shops or even competitors in order to remain globally competitive, and the moldmaking business is an increasingly global one.
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