At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, supply chain disruptions caused shortages that left many essential workers without personal protective equipment, stores with empty shelves and long delays ...

Optimizing tooling on Northeast Tire’s new 4-axis Alzmetall machine reduced time to machine nine 2-in. pockets on the mold container from six hours to 34 minutes. Northeast Tire Mold in Akron, Ohio ...

The grinding machine contains one encoder per motor, with one motor per robot axis and absolute inductive rotary encoders with 18-bit resolution for the robot's axis drives. Technological advances in ...

From top: A thermoforming/rapid prototyping machine from Geiss is equipped with a CNC router, a Sinumerik 840D control, and cutter length measuring inside the machine. The speedboat above was formed ...

The PRECI-FLEX tooling system that EXSYS Tool designed specifically for Mazak machines. In the effort to save time and money for machine shops, EXSYS Tool Inc. reports it has developed rotary and ...

TIMTOS 2025 was co-organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI). The Siemens booth was one of several demonstrating AI, ...

Machine learning advances require an evolution of processes, tooling, and operations. Provided byCapital One Advances in machine learning (ML) and AI are emerging on a near-daily basis—meaning that ...

“So just like every other great story in history, ours is going to start at the lathe.” Truer words were never spoken, and thus begins the saga of turning a bar of chrome-moly steel into a shop-built ...

Two of the largest time sinks in Swiss turning are setups and tool changes. Swiss-type lathes make money thanks to the fast production of high-quality parts in large volumes, and any human ...