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Digging deep into the pocket

​​​A year ago, a leading aerospace manufacturer approached Sandvik Coromant with a machining challenge. The operation in question was finishing deep titanium pockets, a common feature in structural aircraft components. Imported from…

Contributor · December 20, 2017

How to attract millennials to your manufacturing business

The skills gap is a well-known, widespread dilemma across the manufacturing industry. Now that the gap is a mainstream problem, what are the steps industry leaders can take to solve it? Imported…

Contributor · December 20, 2017

5-axis machining of a basketball net

Open Mind Technologies AG has announced that its hyperMILL CAM software has provided 5-axis programming to successfully replicate a basketball hoop. The basketball hoop was machined on a GROB G350 5-axis machining…

Contributor · December 20, 2017

Is custom CNC aluminum better for CNC machining?

In response to the question of whether custom CNC aluminum is better for the CNC machining process, the answer is "yes" in the majority of cases. Today, demand for CNC machining is…

Contributor · December 20, 2017

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence opens solution center

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, North Kingstown, R.I., will open its newest Hexagon Solution Center on Jan. 11 in Irvine, Calif. Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis. Originally published on…

Contributor · December 20, 2017

Eriez Manufacturing Co. selects sales representative agency

Eriez Manufacturing Co., Erie, Pa., appointed Modern Tools Inc., Stoneham, Mass., the company's exclusive HydroFlow Fluid Filtration Systems sales representative agency for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Imported…

Contributor · December 20, 2017

J.M. Sales-USA represents Swiss Tool Systems AG

J.M. Sales-USA, Troy, Mich., is the representative in North America for Swiss Tool Systems AG, Bürglen, Switzerland, a modular boring system provider. Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.…

Contributor · December 20, 2017

Osborn hires Scottie Mahl

Scottie Mahl joined finishing toolmaker Osborn, Richmond, Ind., as director of marketing and product management. Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis. Originally published on CTE: 2017-12-19 CTE source:…

Contributor · December 19, 2017

Brett Green joins Mahr Inc.

Brett Green joined dimensional metrology equipment manufacturer Mahr Inc., Providence, R.I., as vice president of sales for the Americas. Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis. Originally published on…

Contributor · December 19, 2017

Karen Gardner joins Mahr Inc.

Dimensional metrology equipment manufacturer and member of the worldwide Mahr Group, Mahr Inc., Providence, R.I., announced that Karen Gardner joined the company as director of human resources. Imported from the CTE archive…

Contributor · December 19, 2017

Proto Labs Inc. acquires Rapid Manufacturing Group LLC

Proto Labs Inc., Maple Plain, Minn., acquired privately held company Rapid Manufacturing Group LLC, Nashua, N.H., a custom parts supplier specializing in quick-turn sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining. Imported from the…

Contributor · December 19, 2017

Bunting Magnetics Co. names Kevin Miller general manager

Bunting Magnetics Co., Newton, Kan., which makes metal detection, material-handling and magnetic separation equipment, appointed Kevin Miller general manager of the company's primary manufacturing facility in Newton. Imported from the CTE archive…

Contributor · December 19, 2017

Wildeck Inc. fully integrates Ladder Industries Inc.

Mezzanine, vertical material lift and safety guarding products manufacturer Wildeck Inc., Waukesha, Wis., is fully integrating its Goodyear, Ariz., subsidiary, Ladder Industries Inc. Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on…

Contributor · December 19, 2017

Manufacturers support Workshops for Warriors

Since its founding in 2008, 421 graduates of the nonprofit school Workshops for Warriors, San Diego, have earned 2,500 nationally recognized certifications from the National Institute for Metalworking Skills Inc., the American…

Contributor · December 18, 2017

At Harrison Manufacturing, throughput picks up when robot picks up

Harrison Manufacturing, a custom plastics injection molding manufacturer specializing in molded plastics and light assembly, recently deployed Rethink Robotics' Sawyer robot at its Jackson, Miss. facility and saw immediate tangible benefits. Deployed…

Contributor · December 15, 2017

US cutting tool consumption up 8 percent in October

October U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $198 million, according to the United States Cutting Tool Institute, Cleveland, and The Association for Manufacturing Technology, McLean, Va. This total, as reported by companies participating…

Contributor · December 14, 2017

Sonaca Montreal inaugurates high-speed milling center

Sonaca Montreal, a manufacturer of large aerostructures and a subsidiary of Belgium-based Sonaca Group, inaugurated a new high-speed milling center at its plant in Mirabel, Que. Imported from the CTE archive to…

Contributor · December 12, 2017

Clemson University creates Center for Advanced Manufacturing

Clemson University announced the creation of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing. CU-CAM will consolidate all interdisciplinary education, research, innovation and engagement involving manufacturing-oriented activities under one umbrella with the overarching goal to…

Contributor · December 11, 2017

Former NFL pro tackles manufacturing

A former NFL linebacker, Pete Shufelt credits his post-football career as the owner of Backerworks Manufacturing LLC to the day he asked his high school counselor/football coach about what elective classes to…

Contributor · December 11, 2017

Manufacturing unemployment lowest in 17 years

The unemployment rate in the manufacturing industry for private wage and salary workers is at its lowest point in 17 years, reports the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. November had a…

Contributor · December 11, 2017

Getting started with IIoT

I attended 'Integr8,' an Industrial Internet of Things conference hosted by Automation Alley at Detroit's Renaissance Center last month. At numerous breakout sessions, a common question from participants was, "How do I…

Contributor · December 8, 2017

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