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Your Mother Doesn’t Work Here: Why Housekeeping Matters
The dangers of poor housekeeping are real. It saps productivity, morale and operating efficiency, yet goes largely ignored. When every competitive dollar counts, it’s puzzling that more shops don’t make a concerted effort to address a problem that is so easy to fix.
Design for Laser Joining
Here are a few basic principles to consider when redesigning components and assemblies for the new capabilities afforded by laser welding.
A Listener’s View: We Are Our Presentations
This article isn’t about how to make a presentation because, in spite of all sorts of presentation training, few are effective. Instead, this focuses on how to understand what you’re doing when you are presenting, big or small –– to close a sale, to motivate your sales team, to engage your employees on the shop floor, to direct your management team, or meet with your bankers about a new loan for your business –– this is about how to keep your listeners front and center, where most presentations fall horribly short.
Boosting Machine Tool Efficiency: How to Integrate Automated Machining Systems
Despite the benefits of automation, its complexity can intimidate first-time investors. Shops must learn how to effectively define, plan, justify, select, implement and execute a full system integration. To do this, they should become familiar with the process and the key considerations needed for a seamless integration.
Technology Traits for Bending Efficiency
The “leaner” a part is manufactured, the greater the justification to purchase a machine tool, tooling and programming with features that encompass this level of performance and provide the greatest advantages in productivity.
Tip the Scales in Your Favor
Every salesperson knows the job is tougher than ever, not for the faint hearted or those who feel the world owes them a living. But salespeople also recognize the importance of having an extra edge, of standing out from the crowd. Here are some ideas that can make a difference.
Near Misses
Though near miss reporting is a sacred cow among safety professionals, Phil La Duke of Environmental Resources Management examines why most shops waste vital resources and scarce funds relentlessly pursuing a goal that they cannot – and in most cases should not – achieve.
Common Shielding Gases Used for Arc Welding
The variety of shielding gases used in arc welding can be confusing as to when to use which gas for which application. Here are some basic guidelines to follow.
All Hands On… Screen
The onset of robotics in machine shops both big and small has significantly impacted the CNC to a great degree already, but more changes are on the way.
Build It They Will Come
Mike Riley reports on how manufacturers are supporting the emerging MTConnect® and ISO 13399 standards for sharing tool and machine data that will help job shops large and small improve their efficiencies and increase capabilities.
GF Agie Charmilles Event Commemorates 60 Years of EDM Innovation
The two-day open house highlighted the latest wire and sinker EDM technology, automatic wire changing, and the industry’s most advanced EDM human machine interface.
Sink Your Teeth Into This
Core3D delivers new products to dental labs within 24 hours by using robotic ultrasonics from DMG and controls from Siemens to process very expensive substrates in a virtually 24-7 unattended operation.
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