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GMTA Celebrates 25 Year Anniversary

The German Machine Tools of America (GMTA) held a celebration in Chicago during the International Manufacturing & Technology Show (IMTS), commemorating the company’s 25th anniversary.

Trumpf Building Demo Factory For Industry 4.0

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Ditzingen, Germany: Trumpf is building a 5,000-sq m demonstration factory in Chicago, US, designed around Industry 4.0 solutions.

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Enhancing Engine Performance With Thermal Spray Coating (Part I)

The advantages of using aluminium alloy engine blocks over cast iron blocks can be augmented with thermal coating spray. Contributed by Paulo ES Rosa, manager, advanced thermal spray applications and process development, Comau.

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Press Shop Automation: Headed For New Frontiers

Thanks to solid experience in the automotive sector and in-depth knowledge of OEM and Tier One manufacturers’ production dynamics, Comau offers robotised solutions for dedicated sheet pressing lines which fully satisfy, and often anticipate, market trends and requirements. By Marina Zussino.

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Bringing Industry 4.0 To Life

The manufacturing world has already decided to get on board the Industry 4.0 bandwagon. But where exactly is this wagon going to take us in a world that is getting very interconnected as we speak? Craig Charlton, SVP, Asia Pacific Operations, Epicor gives us the lowdown

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Making New Impressions

Ricky Payling, application specialist at Dormer Pramet, outlines the growth of stainless steel, how the cutting tool industry has evolved to machine the material, as well as providing a summary of some of its most common grades.

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Getting Automotive-ated

Constantly changing factors such as unstable oil prices, ever more demanding environmental protection legislations and the evolution of more efficient technologies ensures a continually changing global automotive market place. These factors also increase the ongoing competition between carmakers and OEMs and dictate today's automotive industry manufacturing trends. By Oleg Eliezer, Iscar's automotive industry manager.

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Elements For Successful Face Milling

Boost productivity in face milling operations with pivotal technologies. By Sandvik Coromant.

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A Better Way: Finding Efficiences (Part II)

Inefficiencies need to be ironed out before introducing the concept of the Digital Twin and what this means for the way goods are created and produced. By Siemens PLM Software, Aaron Frankel, senior marketing director manufacturing engineering software and Jan Larsson, senior marketing director EMEA

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Taking The Measured Approach By Accessorising

CMM accessories are important. Pairing inferior accessories with a good CMM can be likened to putting cheap fuel into a Ferrari. By Joson Ng

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Driving For A Better Tomorrow

With time at a premium but quality crucial, Aviel First, director sales and marketing, white light and automation at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, explains how a global vehicle manufacturing group has used white light scanning to improve productivity.

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Customed-made For Fibre Laser Cutting

We take a look at how a sheet metal machine tool builder worked with a laser OEM to build a fibre laser machine. By Andy Sandford of Sticklebacks Communication, for LVD

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Multisensor Measurement: Into A New Era

Multisensor systems have evolved considerably over the years as the component technologies for motion control, optics, lighting and cameras have improved. Tim Sladden, Quality Vision International, tells us more.

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The Digital Transformation (Part I)

With Industry 4.0, there is now an increasing trend towards digitalisation in industrial environments. Bystronic’s head of development (CTO) Dr Jürgen Hohnhaus talks about the benefits behind this development. By Oliver Hergt with photos by Manuel Stettler.

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ACI AG: Automated Cleaning System

ACI AG’s quattroClean is an inline and fully-automated innovative cleaning cell for component surfaces to ensure product quality, cost-efficiency and precision in measurement during machining. The system can be integrated between the machining process and measurement steps of a fully-automated production line or used as a stand-alone device.

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Delcam: PowerSHAPE Pro CAD Software

Delcam has upgraded their PowerSHAPE Pro software to include improvements in speed and simplifying product design editing. The new 2015 R2 version has increased accuracy in snapping alignment points, a split-screen alignment option so users can easily and quickly combine multiple scans of a product, and an ability to morph a complete solid or surface model to a mesh.

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LVD: Cadman-SDI Smart Drawing Importer Module

LVD’s new Cadman-SDI module simplifies 2D and 3D CAD file import and calculation of cost drivers so users can quickly and accurately create job estimates.

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