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Shop Floor Automations Celebrates Milestone
The manufacturing integrator marks two decades in business with a redesigned website and new logo.
Demand for Cobots Increases
Universal Robots hits $170 million in revenue as demand increases for their collaborative robot (cobot) arms.
GF Machining Solutions Expands Sales and Marketing Staff

Dante Payva, Sammy Shabib, Heather Natal and Jon Carlson will focus on growing their milling, EDM and laser texturing lines of business.
MSCI: Tariffs Must Focus on Bad Actors
The Metals Service Center Institute also encourages the U.S. to address potential downstream circumvention in the entire industrial metals supply chain.
U.S. Machine Tool Orders Remain Strong
The $372 million in orders was the second-largest January ever reported in the USMTO program by AMT.
Metal Cutting Product Showcase

Take a closer look at some of the latest advances in machine tools, controls, software and accessories that might help you increase productivity, improve quality and reduce costs.
Easy Load System for Fast Tool Changes in Robotic Operations

The receiver and adapter combination in the Easy Load manual tool changer from Norgren requires only one person to load or unload tooling and makes tool changeover easier than ever for Tri-Axis, Tandem and other robotic processes.
Turnkey, Custom Engineered Workholding Services for Prismatic & Turning Machining

Kitagawa North-Tech provides turnkey systems for machine shops that face productivity challenges or specific machining problems in their vertical, horizontal, multi-axis prismatic milling and turning, forging and casting operations.
Flexible Microfinishing System for Cylindrical Bearing Journals on Crankshafts

The Worldstar 1680 CNC microfinishing system from IMPCO polishes the critical cylindrical bearing journals of a range of different size crankshafts to micron tolerances consistently and automatically, without the need to manually change and reposition the tooling, reducing changeover time from many hours to a few minutes.
Changing the Approach to Robotic Automation

The TaskMate system from READY Robotics is a fully integrated turnkey system for flexible and dynamic interactive machine tending that incorporates the UR robots from Universal Robots.
Concurrent Gundrill Grinding and Measuring for Faster Speed, Absolute Process Repeatability and Accuracy

The software, hardware, high precision fixturing and measuring capability of the Gundrill Grinder from UNISIG enables concurrent grinding and measuring operations that ensure absolute process repeatability and accuracy, and faster grinding speeds.