Balancing Operations and Training

Tooling U-SME's latest report — Balancing Operations and Training: Small Steps Create Big Wins — takes a closer look at some easy first steps and effective best practices that you can implement today to turn small wins into significant progress.

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Hexagon and University of Rhode Island Form Collaborative Partnership for Advanced Manufacturing

November 15, 2019

Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division announced today it has formed a collaborative partnership with the University of Rhode Island, College of Engineering.

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Every other year, manufacturers in the Southeast get to shine and showoff at SOUTHTEC. More than 5,900 manufacturing professionals and leaders descended on Greenville, S.C., for this year’s event to see the latest equipment, tools, software, training and technologies driving manufacturing today.

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Mastercam Celebrates BattleBot Team Witch Doctor’s Success

November 13, 2019

November 12, 2019 (Tolland, Conn.) – Mastercam, CAD/CAM software developed by CNC Software, Inc., was proud to be on display as a sponsorship partner of Team Witch Doctor in season 9 of Discovery’s BattleBots series.

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Manufacturing Engineering: November 2019

Fabrication technologies continue to advance, with processing speeds increasing in laser cutting, welding, EDMing and waterjet cutting. In the November 2019 issue, Manufacturing Engineering takes an in-depth look at these technologies and previews FABTECH 2019 in Chicago.

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