Simulation Software For Error-Free Metalcutting
February 26, 2020
Manufacturers must avoid costly machine errors that cause catastrophic damage to both machine tools and expensive workpieces. Even a minor error in, say, a titanium aerospace component can be a major expense.
By Patrick Waurzyniak
Contributing Editor,
SME Media
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February 28, 2020
AeroDef Manufacturing: Smart Technologies, Collaborative Intelligence, and New Products/Services
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February 28, 2020
The Anatomy of a Telescopic Gauge
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February 28, 2020
Toolpath Simulation Allows Shop to Go ‘Crash-Free in Conroe’
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February 28, 2020
HS Students ‘Pedal’ Towards Manufacturing Jobs
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February 27, 2020
Durable Goods Orders Fall on Transportation
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February 27, 2020
Shop Cuts Machining Steps From Six to Two, Generates More Business
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Toolpath Simulation Allows Shop to Go ‘Crash-Free in Conroe’
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February 28, 2020
HS Students ‘Pedal’ Towards Manufacturing Jobs
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Simulation Software For Error-Free Metalcutting
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February 26, 2020
SME’s Additive Manufacturing Community Celebrates Over 30 Years of Activity
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February 25, 2020
Metal Additive Manufacturing on the Upswing
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February 25, 2020
Parting & Grooving: Advanced Tech Delivers Quality Parts, Results
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AeroDef Manufacturing: Smart Technologies, Collaborative Intelligence, and New Products/Services
February 28, 2020
AeroDef Manufacturing is an aerospace and defense manufacturing conference and trade show. Produced by SME, in partnership with industry OEMs, AeroDef, to be held March 16-18 in Fort Worth, Texas, fosters innovation across the extended enterprise to reduce costs, expedite production times and maintain manufacturing competitiveness in the global economy.
The Anatomy of a Telescopic Gauge
February 28, 2020
Telescoping gauges are indirect measuring devices used to measure the internal diameter of a bore, hole, groove, slot, etc. This T-shaped tool consists of a handle, two telescopic rods and a locking screw.
Toolpath Simulation Allows Shop to Go ‘Crash-Free in Conroe’
February 28, 2020
Gassed up your car this week? If so, you might want to thank Conroe Machine LLC. That’s because among the many parts machined by this specialty job shop in Conroe, Texas are most of the components used to build downhole positive displacement motors (PDMs.)
HS Students ‘Pedal’ Towards Manufacturing Jobs
February 28, 2020
At Temescal Canyon High School in Lake Elsinore, Calif., I’m fortunate to work in a district that is supportive of career-oriented programs.
By Robert Parks
Engineering Design Teacher,
Temescsal Canyon High School
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In the February issue, we examine the challenging task of making close tolerance parts for the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. Our lead feature examines at how quality assurance and regulatory issues influence aerospace part manufacturing, and another feature looks at how aerospace is looking to additive manufacturing to boost efficiency and reduce waste. We also examine how shops are integrating metrology into manufacturing—an approach useful for A&D manufacturers and many others.
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Read the February issue of Smart Manufacturing, which includes an update on CESMII. The institute’s CEO is taking on the competitive standing of U.S. manufacturing, which he describes as being stuck “in a state of pilot purgatory.” Job One for CESMII, he said, is to convince U.S. manufacturers to get additional support from Uncle Sam.
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