Prima Power Announces Official Opening of New Manufacturing Plant in Finland March 28, 2019 Metalworking technology manufacturer Prima Power (Turin, Italy; Arlington Heights, Ill.) announced the opening of a new site in Seinäjoki, Finland. Finn-Power Oy—the company of Prima Industrie Group manufacturing Prima Power turret punch presses, combined machines, and systems—relocated its manufacturing plant and Tech Center previously sited in Kauhava into a new facility in Seinäjoki.
Hurco Introduces New 3D Import with 3D DXF Technology March 18, 2019 Indianapolis-based Hurco introduces the Hurco MAX5 control with the new 3D Import feature that includes 3D DXF technology. This control feature allows the user to simply load the file they receive from their customer directly into the Hurco control.
Automating Job Shops? You Bet! February 28, 2019 If “automation” is the constant drone you hear from practically everyone in metalworking these days, job shop owners might be the only people yelling “No!” Or at least “Wait!” How, they ask, can you cost-effectively automate low-volume, high-mix parts? Yet it’s not only doable but probably necessary.
Learn By Doing: Cal Poly Integrates Compact Waterjet into Engineering February 4, 2019 California Polytechnic State University’s (Cal Poly) Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) Department is ensuring its students are prepared for the future of fabrication by integrating abrasive waterjet into its curriculum.
Who’s Afraid of Five-Axis Machining? January 2, 2019 According to McNamara, director of sales for Doosan Machine Tools America (Pine Brook, NJ), the most important tools in getting customers to move into five-axis machining are features within the control that make it simple to create, understand and prove out machining programs.
Price Downturn Leads Shale Producers to Greater Efficiency November 15, 2018 After petroleum prices collapsed in the mid-2010s, shale oil and gas producers responded to the down-swing by borrowing techniques and technology from the energy sector’s offshore well operations, manufacturing, and even the medical industry to increase efficiency.
READY TO SHARE: MetraLabs Robots Poised to Grease the Skids for Automotive Suppliers in an AI World November 27, 2018 Cofounder Johannes Trabert, who lives a poetic life in the Thuringian Forest, says the future will be focused on ‘the clever share of work’ between humans and robots.
Manufacturing in 2050: The World Turned Upside Down? November 26, 2018 Powerful trends will push manufacturing close to complete automation by 2050, while the people still working in the industry will be empowered to rapidly innovate like never before.
Custom Cutting Tools Create a Competitive Edge January 4, 2019 For certain machining applications, off-the-shelf cutters come up short. Here’s how to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve part quality with a custom cutting tool solution.
Digital Tool Management: Multiple Concepts Begin to Converge October 31, 2018 The focus on digitalization in design and machining has highlighted the importance and advantages of more sophisticated digital tool management (DTM) systems. While this has generated a great degree of differentiation, and some confusion regarding a generally accepted system definition, it has resulted in the evolution of objectives and capabilities that are both more comprehensive and more customer-centric.