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Articles in June, 2008 issue of Modern Applications News
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Let's make machining a Girlie profession: isn't it about time to drop our gender blinders about which sex belongs in the shop?
by Pete Nofel - February manufacturing technology consumption up 4.4 percent from 2007
- Woman machinist is the first female to compete in NTMA apprentice competition
- Heidenhain controllers guide a big eye
- Trumpf is first German machine tool company to open a production plant in Japan
- Haas opens factory outlets in India
- I want my SME
- AMT gets new president
- The bull of the woods
- Wisconsin firm completes $4 million expansion, adds 100 jobs
- Siemens expands retrofit effort
- DMG steps into entry-level market
- NexTECH what's on the cutting edge of technology
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Finish pass anxiety-part 2: a "twist" of fate, and a tool, creates and solves a mystery and helps alleviate finish pass anxiety
by Dave Sterling -
Eggs and chickens, something must come first: while it may not be art to rival DaVinci's, Leonardo's skills with a CAD/CAM package let him program a job that looked like it would bring in long-term work to his start-up job shop
by Ben Mund -
Simulation software and new technologies: machine and control simulation, and technologies like Wi-Fi, have moved from emerging technologies into useful tools on the shop floor
by Pearson Randy - Counting down to IMTSPart I: this begins a three-part preview of the international manufacturing technology show, 2008. In this, and the next two issuesJuly and Augustman will highlight the products and events taking place in Chicago fro
- Stringing along energy development: pipe strings down oil well bores have to be stabilized with collars cut from huge forgings. A manufacturer of the stabilizers incorporated new machines to do the job
- The right software led to shop success: after striking out on his own, a shop enterpreneur found a CAD/CAM package that saved him time and money, as well as solving "impossible" problems
- The proof is in the plastic: three-dimensional printing technology translated scans of the space shuttle tiles for safety evaluation. The same technology allows proof of concept before metal is machined
- Carbide to the rescue: a carbide end mill that finished the job in two hours, instead of three-and-a-half days, ended a backlog for an oil industry manufacturer
- The rule of ones: Implementing Lea Manufacturing concepts and standardizing welding process let a shop decrease downtime and quality variance
- A Swiss turning center turns problems into profits: minimizing turning operations between centers was the goal and a new Swiss turning center met it
- Blasting cabinet has a 36" diameter turntable
- Deburr, polish, clean, and relieve stress in one process
- Micro-abrasive system for blasting small parts
- Micro brushes for tiny deburring
- Two deburring tools at 1,600 ipm
- Wet Deburring
- Combustible deburring dust caught by wet system
- Totes add up to 15 percent more storage capacity
- Material self-lubricating at high temperatures
- Boring heads come in five range sizes
- Higher productivity in short-hole drilling
- No sparks here
- Sensor has 28mm beam spread
- Safe delivery of welding wire to robotic cells
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It's just like free money: cutting the "fat" from businessshedding the unproductive processes that can be embedded and overlooked in a companycan mean freeing money for investment or new business mining
by Ralph L. Keller
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