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CAD/CAM Helps Container Systems Grow
Container Systems manufactures around 10,000 reels a week. There used to be 14 people working in this area. Today, with Mastercam CAD/CAM software and the router, there are only ten. In addition to making it possible to relocate four workers to other manufacturing tasks, Mastercam and the router have replaced three pieces of conventional manufacturing equipment, which are now used only to meet overflow production requirements. These include two older CNC systems that had to be programmed manually.
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Photo Essay: Short-Run, High-Complexity Job
For a small and relatively new job shop to win attention, it sometimes has to demonstrate its competence by excelling at parts that more established shops would have difficulty machining cost-effectively. This aluminum arm, part of a proprietary product prototype, is an example. It needed to be produced in a quantity of just two.
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Multitasking With A Small Footprint
A new multitasking machine from Mazak Corp. (Florence, Kentucky) addresses one of the drawbacks that some shops find with this ever-more-popular type of machine tool. Many of these machines require a large amount of floor space even though the workpieces are relatively small. Shops with limited space may have difficulty accommodating these seemingly oversized machines on the shop floor. The Integrex i-150 Multi-Tasking Center, however, has a small footprint. The base of the machine sits within a 58-square-foot area.
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Another Step Toward CAM Automation
Manufacturing personnel have been interpreting information conveyed by engineering drawings for centuries. Making manufacturing far less reliant on the human interpretation of this information (whether delivered on paper or by computer) is the real promise of the paperless factory. It’s not only the sheets of pressed wood fiber that must become unnecessary. What must also be eliminated are the numerous steps wherein a person must intellectually analyze and assign meaning to information before further computer processing can proceed.
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Details Differentiate Snap Gages
Snap gages are most frequently used in production environments where precise diameter or thickness measurements need to be made quickly and repeatedly. They can be hand held or mounted on frames. Typically, they consist of a “C” frame, two anvils (one fixed and the other under spring tension) and a backstop on the frame to locate the part.
The earliest snap gages were of the fixed, go/no-go, variety. These were simple, reliable and efficient tools, but separate gages were needed to measure all the different part sizes.
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Smoothing Insert Surfaces Extends Tool Life
Coatings are typically applied on cutting tool inserts using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or physical vapor deposition (PVD). In either case, imperfections in the coating’s outer layer can occur as a result of coating application, according to Iscar (Arlington, Texas). High heat followed by cooling during CVD can leave behind micro-sized cracks in the coating. Although PVD does not involve high heat like CVD, the PVD process can leave behind tiny droplets of coating material on an insert’s surface. These ragged surface imperfections adversely affect chip flow and insert life.
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FARO makes Forbes fastest growing list
Portable measurement arm specialist FARO Technologies Inc has been named in Forbes Magazine’s list of America's 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies.
In order to make the Forbes list, companies must have:
- At least 10 per cent annualised sales gains over the past five years
- Profitability over the past 12 months
- At least $25 million in sales over the past four quarters
- Thomson IBES consensus earnings forecasts of at least 10 per cent annualised earnings growth over the next three to five years
- Companies with significant legal problems, or with possible accounting or corporate governance issues, based upon guidance provided by Audit Integrity of Los Angeles, are disqualified
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