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THREE SMART TOOLS FOR SMART FACTORIES
Festo is distributing a new line of magnetic grippers and giving you the ability to design your own 2- or 3-axis industrial robot.
ONE CRANE, TWO AUTOMATION OPTIONS
Overhead crane combines lightweight aluminum rail systems with semi- or fully automated “smart” material-handling solutions.
TWO NEW PRODUCTS FROM BILSING
Ultrahigh-modulus carbon fiber composite tooling and double-blank detection for hot or cold stamping.
INVERTERS AUTOMATE STACK-FLIPPING
Machine minimizes damage to blanks and enables same die to be used for stamping left-hand and right-hand mirror-image components.
Custom Forklift Attachment Enhances Stamping Plant Productivity
Caldwell Group tool facilitates delivery of 11-to-12-ton steel coils at MiTek USA.
Welcome to the Next Decade: Metalworking in Industry 4.0
During the next ten years, more fabricators will compete with sophisticated, connected networks that apply artificial intelligence to manage data that reduces their cycle times in design to manufacturing to delivery.
Automated Adaptive Milling
Automated adaptive blade milling from Liechti Engineering measures the workpiece in the machine and CAM software generates and optimizes a tool path that eliminates human error, optimizes productivity and ensures the highest quality result.
Intelligent Toolholder Controls the Cutting Process in Real-Time
The smart iTENDO hydraulic expansion toolholder from SCHUNK enables real-time process monitoring and control of geometry and performance data directly in the tool.
Electro-Spindle Monitors Cutting Processes in Real-Time
The e-SPINDLE from PCI / Absolute Machine Tools integrates sensors and actuators to monitor cutting processes and adjust parameters to optimize tool life and part quality.
How Pre-Emptive Replaces Real-Time
Because real-time is too late, the comprehensive Artificial Intelligence Suite from DataProphet can achieve real impact with pre-emptive actions to improve production quality and reduce defects for Industry 4.0.
Smooth Operator: Surface Finish Measurement
Take a closer look at some of the latest advances in surface roughness measurement that can help improve the manufacturing quality of parts.
Never-Before-Possible Roughness Measurement
A MarSurf GD roughness measuring station from Mahr Inc. can do profile and waviness evaluations in addition to surface roughness evaluations on larger parts or a series of smaller parts staged together – all on the same machine.
