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UPS Launch On-Demand 3D Print

Singapore: UPS has announced that its partner Fast Radius, will open a 3D printing factory in a UPS facility in Singapore by the end of 2016, expanding the on-demand 3D printing network to Asia. The facility will enable customers to increase their supply chain efficiency with additive manufacturing.

UPS Launch On-Demand 3D Print Manufacturing Network

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Singapore to serve as newest location for Fast Radius 3D printing factory.

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Maintaining A Proper Plasma System

Proper plasma system maintenance can help prolong life and performance of system, and it requires just a little time investment. By Clayton Gould, marketing manager, Aftersales, Hypertherm Inc.

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PLM Industry: Report Shows Growth

CIMdata, in its 2016 PLM Industry Analysis Report, showed growth in PLM spending in 2015 as all industries were affected by the trend towards smart, connected products, either directly or because of the effects of the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Industry 4.0 Needs Horizontal Integration

An increasing demand for a quality Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for Industry 4.0 clearly manifests itself. The functions and properties an MES system must have are detailed in the VDI guideline 5600. But is that relevant for Industry 4.0? The Future Concept MES 4.0 casts a light on the issue.

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Getting A Clean Edge: Competitive Advantages Through Cleanliness

Hard material coatings improve the performance and service life of cutting and metalforming tools. However, these gains are contingent upon good coating adhesion to the substrate and this, in turn, is critically dependent on proper cleaning of the tools. By Doris Schulz.

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Drilling Stacks With PCD Vein Drills

Custom-designed tools may well be the way to go for stack machining. Contributed by Gan Shu Lim, marketing, Walter AG Singapore

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Medical Parts Machining: The Swiss Difference

The world medical market is strong for several reasons, including the fact that it has an aging population and this presents a business opportunity for the manufacturing sector. Contributed by Tornos

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Deal With Free-Form Surface Measurement The Tactile Way

What happens when you are presented with the prospect of measuring free-form surfaces without optical measuring options? Contributed by CP Chuah, GM, commercial operations Asia Pacific, Wenzel Asia.

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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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Manufacturing Accuracy Regardless Of Circumstances

Closed loop position measurement provides high accuracy in any situation with small series. By Helmut Kügel, Heidenhain’s product management encoder.

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Cutting And Weld Preparation: The Many Faces Of Plasma Cutting

Tex Whiting, consumable sales manager for Hypertherm explains to us about the many forms of plasma cutting under different conditions and how to get the best out of it.

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Marked By Laser

Laser marking has significant advantages in terms of productivity and costs. It does not hurt when it produces good quality as well. Contributed by Petrina Heng, sales manager, Laser Division of Trumpf Asia Pacific

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Getting Efficient Fixtures

The transformation in three dimensional measuring technology as well as shape inspection using optical methods, which set in years ago, is constantly setting new standards in shorter and shorter cycles. Contributed by Witte Asia

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WIDIA: Multi-Purpose End Milling

WIDIA has launched the VarilMill GP (general purpose) tools comprising of cost-saving multi-purpose end mills suitable for roughing, semi-finishing, and finishing in a wide range of materials like aluminium, stainless steels, and cast irons.

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FARO: 3D Scanner

Developed by FARO Technologies, the Scanner Freestyle 3D, complemented with a Microsoft Surface Tablet, scans objects to a distance of three metres and captures up to 88k points per second with an accuracy of 1.5 mm. Weighing less than a kilogramme, the portable handheld scanner not only enables the user to manoeuvre the device to scan hard-to-reach places such as car interiors, but it also allows real-time visualisation of an object by the user through view point cloud data as it is captured. Its memory-scan technology lets users pause and then resume scanning and data collection at any time without requiring artificial targets.

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Iscar: The Perfect Thread

Product of the company’s R&D Department, Iscar’s new threading tools provide users with solutions that boost production, raise quality and provide substantial cost reduction benefits.

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