How to Estimate and Control Head Pressure

Jim Frankland | Plastics Technology

You rightfully worry about melt temperature, but don’t overlook head pressure, because the two are closely linked and will influence line performance.

Consortium Sets Up Cost-Effective AM Production Lines for Automotive Parts

Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing

Automotive parts can now be mass produced using additive manufacturing technology’s laser powder bed fusion for the standard production of cars at two BMW Group sites.

Heidenhain TNC7 CNC Control Offers Greater Functionality

Angela Osborne | Production Machining

IMTS 2022: The CNC control enables machine manufacturers to adapt the user interface to their machines for shopfloor-centered manufacturing.

Alliance Program Supports Application-Based Offerings

Jenny Rush | Modern Machine Shop

YCM offers a range of application-based machine tool solutions backed up by its Alliance program.

Hobbing Machine Gears Up to Meet Industry Needs

| Modern Machine Shop

IMTS22: Nidec Machine Tool launches the GE15HS, a gear hobbing machine seeking to produce gears across many industries and applications.

Composites industry continues early 2022 trends into June

Jan Schafer | CompositesWorld

As in May, a majority of the components in the Gardner Business Index (GBI): Composites Fabricating continue movement into slowed expansionary growth.
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CNC Control Offers Greater Functionality

Angela Osborne | Modern Machine Shop

IMTS 2022: Heidenhain’s CNC control enables machine manufacturers to adapt the user interface to their machines for shopfloor-centered manufacturing.

Con compra de Herbold, Hillenbrand amplía su oferta en reciclaje de plásticos

| Plastics Technology México

Herbold se unirá a las marcas Coperion y Rotex de Hillenbrand, como parte de un segmento que ofrece soluciones de procesamiento industrial de plásticos de alta ingeniería.

Admaflex300 Ceramic, Metal 3D Printer Offers 12 million Pixels Per Single Layer

Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing

It is said the printer can greatly increase the accuracy, throughput and efficiency in high-performance technical ceramic and metal 3D printing.

Nueva sede de FANUC México en Aguascalientes

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

FANUC inauguró una sede de robótica y automatización en Aguascalientes con una jornada de puertas abiertas de tecnología.

Dow abre convocatoria para los Packaging Innovation Awards 2022

| Plastics Technology México

Los Packaging Innovation Awards de Dow reconocerán la innovación en diseño, materiales, tecnología y procesos de empaque en toda la cadena de valor.

Precision Machining Technology Review July 2022: IMTS Machining Centers Preview

Angela Osborne | Production Machining

Production Machining’s IMTS Machining Centers preview showcase includes Expand Machinery, Hardinge, Mikron Corp., DN Solutions, Kyocera Precision Tools and Mitsui Seiki.

Aumentan exportaciones de productos metálicos en 25.6% durante el primer trimestre de 2022

Mauricio Pineda | Products Finishing México

Las exportaciones del subsector de “Fabricación de Productos Metálicos” alcanzaron un valor de 3,321.5 millones de dólares en el primer trimestre del año.

Reshoring: Is the Surge Sustainable?

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

Sure seems that way, as companies big and small look and act to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. 

Thinking “Inside Out” and “Outside In”

Timothy W. Simpson | Additive Manufacturing

The mindset for additive flips subtractive thinking inside out.

The Strategic Value of Machine Tool Flexibility

Mark Albert | Modern Machine Shop

This aerospace and defense supplier has a strategy to take advantage of the flexibility in its newest and largest five-axis gantry-type machining center.

Retroreflective Powder Coating Q&A

Gary S. Vasilash | Products Finishing

Insights into how PPG’s retroflective powder coating works.

Kalitta Motorsports enhances Revchem Composites drag race contributions

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Third-year sponsor increases brand visibility, becomes recognized composites distributor of choice in the NHRA.  

Industry 4.0 Zero-Point Tooling System Provides Operational Security

| MoldMaking Technology

The MTS 4.0 smart tooling technology from Erowa is a precise interface between machine, workpiece and tool to optimize production processes and make them safer.  

Industry 4.0 Zero-Point Tooling System Provides Operational Security

Grace Stubbins | Modern Machine Shop

The MTS 4.0 smart tooling technology from Erowa is a precise interface between machine, workpiece and tool to optimize production processes and make them safer.  

Omega Systèmes expands composite formatting capabilities to meet future aerospace program demand

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Installation of a flexible converting line at the Web Industries company’s Nantes site increases French production capacity to supply commercial-scale volumes of thermoset slit tape.  

on Mercedes (twice), the end of the BMW i3, quality at Ford, three pickups, pricing. . .and even more (whew!)

Gary S. Vasilash | Gardner Web

A big Mercedes investment. . .the end of i3 production by BMW. . .COVID and quality at Ford. . .a pickup from VW. . .a pickup from GMC. . .a pickup from Geely (only the middle one available in the U.S.). . .pricing and supply. . .Camry Hybrid review. . .a Mazda diesel in the U.K.
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