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Manufacturers Sponsor Robotics League to Promote Careers In Manufacturing
Cleveland To Host 2014 National Robotics League Championship (NRL). NRL is the only league formalizing ties between competitor teams and manufacturing partners.
Intelligent Factories: The Fourth Industrial Revolution
A new era of highly efficient, flexible and customizable mass production requires software and analytical systems that turn the deluge of data produced by intelligent factories into useful and valuable information.
Automation: Essential for 5-Axis Machining Productivity
What used to take seven or eight operations can now be done in two, and one job, which took three standard weeks can now be completed in three days with 24 hour running, according to the company’s managing director.
Memex Automation, 5ME Join Partners in THINC
They join more than 40 technology leaders focused on developing specialized manufacturing systems to increase the competitiveness of Okuma’s customers.
Ellison Technologies Automation Becomes Acieta
Two divisions combine to become a wholly-owned Mitsui U.S.A. standalone company with a focused approach on the growing use of robots in manufacturing, which is expected to grow five-fold over the next eight years.
Advanced CNC for Basic Milling and Turning Machine Tools
The new Sinumerik 808D Advanced CNC from Siemens Industry offers up to five axes / spindle motion control on a single machine channel, with drive bus communication between the CNC and drive for better position control, data transfer over standard Ethernet protocol, plus Auto Servo Tuning (AST) for superior surface quality and repeatable part accuracy in mold and die applications.
MTConnect® Institute Establishes Forum with National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining
The MTConnect® Institute and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) announce a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a cooperative forum resulting in collaboration between the two organizations to continue defining, developing and securing programs aimed at furthering the MTConnect standard.
AMT Applauds Launch of New Manufacturing Hubs in Illinois, Michigan
“Digital manufacturing is clearly one of the most exciting and fundamentally game-changing technologies impacting our industry,” said AMT President Douglas K. Woods.
Automation/Robotics
Automation is the individual use or integrated configuration of computer software, machines or other technologies ranging from fully mechanical systems to fully virtual networks, very simple to intensely complex in functionality, to carry out a task that would typically be…
Haas Automation Launches Online Parts and Customer Resource Websites
Haas Automation has made online shopping for OEM parts available to the public with its resource center.