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Micromilling Demands Optimal Tool Tip Geometry
Advanced tool tip geometries ensure free-cutting properties necessary for chip consistency and long tool life in micromilling applications.
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Wohlers Report 2019 Projects Growth in Additive Manufacturing
Wohlers Associates’ publication, Wohlers Report 2019, reports on additive manufacturing and 3D printing.
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Hydraulic Locking Cylinder Provides Plug and Play Integration
PFA Inc.’s Hydraulic Locking Cylinders are now available with low profile PNP style sensors designed to integrate with Switchmax mold connectivity solution.
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Highly-Automated Tool Shop Achieves Efficient, Precise Medical Device Manufacturing
When a basketball player needs a knee replacement, standard implants simply won’t do. With a total of 18 different additive manufacturing systems, the Aesculap division of medical company B. Braun is the place to go to have custom implants printed to size. However, the highly-automated tool and mold shop has much more to offer when it comes to producing injection molds, complex progressive dies as well as prototypes and fixtures for series production.
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Automation and Apprenticeships?
We talk a lot about automation. Automation involving pallet changers, tool changers, work cells, and robots. But what does automation have to do with apprenticeships? As it turns out, plenty.
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Hoist Ring Prevents Damage and Increases Load Capacity
RUD Ketten, Rieger & Dietz GmbH u. Co. KG presents a hoist ring with a spring mechanism to ensure the anchor point turns in the load direction while raising, removing bracket damage from large shear forces and bending or breakage from sudden bracket turns.
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How to Better Balance Family Molds
A servo-driven valve gate can provide superior processing for family molds with significant variances in part sizes and volumes.
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VIDEO: How Five-Axis Continuous Machining Can Advance the Manufacture of Complex Molds
MoldMaking Technology Senior Editor Cynthia Kustush interviews Greg Pozzo, applications team leader for Makino, to learn more about the company's introduction of five-axis continuous machining and its benefits for moldmaking.
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Cutting Sprue Bushing Removes Need for Secondary Operation
DMS adds Almo’s cutting sprue bushing to its range of edge gate cutting components.
Read MoreApplied Automation Technologies and DMG Mori Team Up
Applied Automation Technologies and DMG Mori offer a solution within the DMG Mori Qualified Products program.
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