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WHY MANUFACTURING IS LEADING THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY
With manufacturing heading in a positive direction, some expect a net job gain of 500,000 by the end of this year. One burning question often being raised now is why manufacturers have played such an important role in this stage of the economic recovery. Economic analyst Chris Kuehl of FMA gives three reasons why.
D&S Manufacturing Receives Award for Commitment to Manufacturing Education
Fabricator helps Wisconsin take positive action to address changing age demographics that will eventually result in a lack of trained and skilled workers entering the workforce.
INTECH North America Spotlights Thin Sheet Metal Fiber Laser Cutting Systems
Sheet metal fabricators who process thin gauge steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper and brass evaluate two systems from Trumpf that offer a competitive advantage by reducing the cost of producing parts by up to 20 percent.
Seco Tools Inaugurates Its First Solar PV System in East Tennessee
The new 29.6 kW solar power array will generate 37,067 kWh of clean, emissions-free energy annually, the same amount of power that is equivalent to powering more than three average Tennessee homes annually.
HOW TO DETERMINE THE REAL COST OF YOUR END MILL
A higher priced tool can ultimately prove to cost much less than its lower priced counterpart. Stephen Jean of Emuge explains how the true cost is found after its performance is quantified.
NON-CONTACT 3D IMAGING SYSTEM COLLECTS MILLIONS OF POINTS IN SECONDS
This new inspection system from FARO Technologies uses patented Accordion Fringe Interferometry (AFI) technology that is ideal for quality control, reverse engineering and rapid manufacturing of complex shapes or large, smooth surfaces.
BACK TO THEIR ROOTS
About the size and length of a car wash, this is the largest double gantry 5-axis milling machine from Fidia SpA in North America. It can easily cut the entire fuselage of an F-22 Raptor fighter jet within a hair’s width of tolerance. And for David Muir of Paragon D&E, it signals a return to the innovation that his grandfather was known for.
REBUILD OR BUY NEW? GRINDING IT OUT
Remanufacture with no prints or buy new at $4 million per machine? That was the question that three different sized 1950s-era cylindrical-type grinders posed for a large crankshaft supplier to the energy, power generation, earth moving, locomotive, mining, marine, stamping and forging industries. The answer?
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Mazak Receives Silver Boeing Performance Excellence Award
Boeing recognized suppliers who achieved either a Gold or Silver level Boeing Performance Excellence Award. Mazak is one of the suppliers to receive the Silver level of recognition by maintaining a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period from October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010.
Siemens–DMG Collaboration Tightly Integrates Process from CAD to Machined Component
The benefits of tight digital integration, consistency and associativity of data throughout manufacture are particularly important in the aerospace sector, where a mid-size jet contains over four million components and hundreds of design changes are made daily that have implications throughout the global supply chain.