Building Plans, Taking Action: A Personal Challenge to the Moldmaking Community
Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology
Stop worrying and start solving your mold shop problems - one small step can get you moving.
Royal Products impulsa su expansión con una inversión estratégica
Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México
La empresa estadounidense Royal Products anuncia una inversión de Heartwood Partners que le permitirá fortalecer su crecimiento y explorar nuevas oportunidades en el sector metalmecánico.
JIMTOF 2024 Report: EVs, AI and Autonomous Robots Abound
Julia Hider | Modern Machine Shop
The 2024 Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF) showed how the manufacturing industry is adapting to the needs of electric vehicle manufacturing and adopting new technology including AI and autonomous robots.
Tendencias en CNC para 2025: innovación al servicio de la manufactura avanzada
Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México
El control numérico computarizado (CNC) está marcando la pauta para una manufactura más eficiente, conectada y sostenible.
Supertec Machinery ID/OD Grinder Reduces Setup Times
Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop
The PMGII-150CNC turret-type multi-spindle ID/OD grinder comes with a 20" plunge-type OD wheel, a 16" angle-head OD wheel and an optional rpm ID spindle, which enables a wide range of grinding capabilities.
America Makes Announces $2.1M Project Call Winners
Jann Bond | Additive Manufacturing
The project call, released in June 2024, consists of six topic areas of focus.
Collier Aerospace HyperX optimizes X-59 composite nose cone
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
Swift Engineering relied on the CAE software’s structural sizing, analysis and test validation capabilities to deliver flight hardware for NASA’s supersonic QueSST aircraft early, under budget and with 25% weight savings.
Composite Recycling thermolysis recycling unit delivered to Veolia
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
Operations are set to ramp up the company’s first industrial-scale recycling unit in France, made for processing up to 2 tonnes of composite waste per day.
VIDEO: Robots enable nine-axis machining of composites
Jodee McElfresh | CompositesWorld
Machine Tool Camp displayed its hybrid machining center at CAMX, featuring nine-axis machining capability enabled by robotics.
For Production AM, Is Metal a Better Candidate Than Polymer?
Peter Zelinski | Additive Manufacturing
Taking stock of the many AM successes we have covered on The Cool Parts Show, and what the breakdown by material type reveals.
Cinco tendencias en mecanizado CNC para 2025
Ángela Andrea Castro | Modern Machine Shop México
El mecanizado CNC evoluciona con tecnologías disruptivas: inteligencia artificial predictiva, manufactura híbrida, IoT y automatización robótica. Soluciones que mejoran precisión, eficiencia y reducen costos operativos.
Sandvik Coromant Toolholding System Provides Rapid Tool Changes
Chris Pasion | Production Machining
QS Micro features quick and easy tool changes with a high degree of modularity and is well suited for small-part machining operations.
INEOS Styrolution presenta tecnología para reciclaje de poliestireno
Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México
Ineos Styrolution y Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller presentan vasos de yogur hechos con poliestireno reciclado para el sector alimentario utilizando la innovadora tecnología para reciclaje de poliestireno de Ineos.
Mazak Opens Customer Solutions Center
Chris Pasion | Production Machining
The Customer Solutions Center specializes in the development of production-ready, custom automation solutions that allow manufacturers to overcome existing labor issues.
Cómo la IA puede abrir nuevas posibilidades para la productividad y la sostenibilidad
| Modern Machine Shop México
Los expertos destacan que la combinación de tecnologías como la inteligencia artificial y los gemelos digitales, junto con conocimientos específicos del sector, puede hacer que las soluciones de vanguardia sean más accesibles.
Process Monitoring or Production Monitoring — Why Not Both?
| Plastics Technology
Molders looking to both monitor an injection molding process effectively and manage production can definitely do both with tools available today, but the question is how best to tackle these twin challenges.
Customizable Cobot Palletizing Tool
Tony Deligio | Plastics Technology
Piab USA says after two years as a specialty product, its cobot palletizing tool (CPT) end-of-arm-tool is now a standard configurable product.
Two Decades of "Never Finished"
Sarah Barnett | Products Finishing
Join the Products Finishing team as we celebrate Matt Kirchner’s 20 years with us!
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NAPCOR Report Shows Increased Bottle Collection Rate in 2023
Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology
Bottles available for collection declined, while recycled content in bottles reached its highest level.
OEM Moves From Automation Implementation to Refinement
Evan Doran | Production Machining
Automating challenging parts for full-weekend automation requires substantial process refinements that can significantly boost throughput.
Firefly awarded $179 million NASA contract for moon delivery
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
Company’s third lunar mission and fourth NASA CLPS task order uses Firefly’s carbon fiber Blue Ghost lunar lander, Elytra Dark orbital vehicle and a rover to operate six NASA instruments.
High-Performance Viscometers Deliver Accuracy, Reproducibility
Jenn Cammel | Products Finishing
With advanced features like direct drive motors, electronic cone lifts and built-in temperature control, Gardco's byko-visc CP cone and plate viscometers deliver accuracy and ease of use for viscosity measurements.