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Machining 1 Aug 2013

Wiping the Slate Clean with a Brand-New Facility

“After the two-week transition period, we were operating smoother than we were at our previous facility.”

Mold Materials 1 Aug 2013

Soft Wire Threading for Wire EDM’ing: Tips for Success

Look for EDM equipment that provides improved wire processing during the AWF cycle. Technology should include a way to precisely control the wire tension and energy used to cut the wire.

1 Aug 2013

Finding the Right High-Feed Indexable Milling Tool

The value of versatility and reliability in your high-feed machining solution.

1 Aug 2013

Traditional Labor Values Meet Linear Technology

What GW gained was high reliability, improved speed/throughput without sacrificing accuracy or quality and a high level of satisfaction from the operators, on all the machines.

25 Jul 2013

Understand Your Tools

"Challenge us to help you do what you do more effectively." Those were the words of Ingersoll Cutting Tools President Chuck Edler as he kicked off the Die & Mold Seminar this morning, which honed in on understanding the precise tools necessary for the delicate processes of mold manufacturing--milling, high-volume roughing, high-feed roughing, aluminum machining, gun drilling and hole making to name a few.

17 Jul 2013

Industry 4.0: EMO Update

This is not the first time a technical breakthrough was supposed to revolutionize the world of factories: we’re talking about computer-integrated manufacturing, or CIM for short. EMO HANNOVER asked the scientist Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauernhansel, Director of the Institute for Industrial Manufacturing and Management (IFF) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart, about Industry 4.0. Following is a Q&A with Dr. Bauernhansel.

5 Jun 2013