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WE’RE RETOOLING
New year, new decade, new opportunities, new editor. Allow me to introduce myself.
Bank on Better Abrasives
A 20% increase in consumable costs reduced an automotive component supplier’s cycle time by 30% and is saving almost $250,000 annually on machine operating costs.
A Market That’ll Never Go Away
Manufacturers selling to the public sector need a special business acumen to thrive in this market.
HIRE FOR YOUR FACTORY’S FUTURE
How to develop and nurture your own innovation hub.
10 WAYS TO DECREASE COSTS BY INCREASING PLATE UTILIZATION
Every extra part wrung from the same piece of raw and remnant material is money in your pocket. Here’s how to significantly increase earnings.
HIGH-SPEED CUTTING OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS
How to achieve high-volume, high-quality production for this demanding market.
Upskilling Your Workforce
Retraining strategies for a robotically automated world.
Wired for Success
To improve welding productivity, quality and cost savings, select the type and weight of welding wire packaging that balances out the time and cost for changing over the package with the equipment being used and the rate at which the product is consumed. Here’s how it works.
Adaptive Machining Explained
This primer brings all of the required elements together into a single discussion that explains the correct direction for successful entry into the high-speed /adaptive machining arena.
Data Requirements for Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing
Ready to enter the world of Big Data? Before AI can effectively learn a model of a manufacturing process, the data requirements must be properly designed and fed enough examples of the right data for the algorithms to automatically learn complex patterns from a sample of data. Here are some insights to help you get prepared.
Skilled Hands
Humanoid manipulators with an ever-higher flexibility of motion are here and will grow in demand in the future because the closer human beings and robots work together, the greater the relevance of five-fingered gripping hands. Here’s why.
How to Increase Output for Large Stainless Steel Sheet Surface Polishing
To meet demanding production schedules in a competitive environment, this shop eliminated wasted time, improved utilization, reduced the number of setup sheets and increased their saleable sheets by correcting the grit being used on their custom finishing machine.
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