Grinding Strategies Go from Good to Great June 4, 2019 Maybe your company specializes in aerospace or medical components, and you need to produce complex geometries in metals too tough to cut via conventional machining methods.
Anthony Screw Products: Saving $212,000 Per Year with Chip Processing, Fluid Recovery June 28, 2019 Rod Anthony is the president of Anthony Screw Products Ltd., Burlington, Ontario, Canada. He has more than 25 years of experience working in every position in his plant’s manufacturing process.
The Less-Traveled Path to Better Optimized Milling June 7, 2019 Optimized roughing can extend tool life, help generate better workpiece surface finishes, and save time by minimizing secondary processing steps. Despite these advantages, many shops still forgo this productive strategy, either because they don’t know how to implement it or don’t understand how it works.
Talent Issues Impede Tech June 17, 2019 In a recent study, over 80 percent of survey respondents listed workforce issues as one of their top three challenges to adopting new technology at their plants. New technologies are coming not only to cars, utility vehicles and trucks but also to the manufacturing plants that produce parts, components and vehicles.
The Wide World of Machining June 12, 2019 I’m always amazed by the wide range of technologies that go into the process of machining. At EASTEC 2019, I saw the latest and greatest technology from machine tool builders, cutting tool manufacturers, measurement providers, software developers, and many more.
Yamazaki Mazak Announces Leadership Transition June 11, 2019 Manufacturing technology leader Yamazaki Mazak Corporation has announced that President Tomohisa Yamazaki will become the company’s chairman while Vice President Takashi Yamazaki has been named the new president.
Senvol President Elected Chairman of SME’s Additive Manufacturing Community Advisors Senvol is pleased to announce that its President, Zach Simkin, has been elected to serve as Chairman for SME’s Additive Manufacturing (AM) Community.
SME Education Foundation, Ford Motor Company Fund and Ford Next Generation Learning Partner with Romeo Community Schools to Inspire, Prepare High School Students for Careers in Manufacturing Ford Motor Company Fund and Ford Next Generation Learning (Ford NGL) have partnered with the SME Education Foundation to make available education opportunities for students of Romeo High School in Romeo, Michigan, in a collaboration formed through the Foundation's Partnership Response In Manufacturing Education (PRIME) schools initiative.
2018 Adaptive Device For the 2018 Additive Manufacturing Competition, students were challenged to solve a real-life medical problem for a veteran who endured a traumatic thumb amputation on his left hand.
SkillsUSA Additive Manufacturing Competition SME, in partnership with Stratasys, created the SkillsUSA Additive Manufacturing Competition to attract students to the new, exciting, emerging technologies and tools involved in this market. The competition helps contestants better understand additive manufacturing applications and provides them with hands-on experience using the latest 3D printing technology and software.