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  • Apex Tool announces Ross Porter Jr as President of Global Power Tools

    Porter, 51, joins Apex Tool Group after holding senior executive roles at both Newell Brands and Chamberlain Industries, including general management, finance, corporate development and investor relations
    19 October, 2016 | 1 minute
  • NUM helps CNC Onestop to facilitate precision grinding

    The core of NUM’s cylindrical grinding CNC solutions is a software package known as ProCAM. ProCAM software is designed primarily to address the requirements of OD, ID or OD/ID with either a horizontal or vertical machine layout.
    17 October, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • EMO Hannover: Digitalization a catalyst for growth in machine tools industry

    For 2017, the economists are forecasting a 3.6 percent increase in machine tool consumption worldwide. EMO Hannover, from September 18-23, 2017, will host some of the leading machine tool manufacturers in the world.
    11 October, 2016 | 8 minutes
  • How to Achieve Optimal Web Tension Control

    How to Achieve Optimal Web Tension Control

    Understanding what influences accurate web tension control & taking correct actions is critical to achieving high product quality and machine performance.
    By: Contributing Authors
    10 October, 2016 | 7 minutes
  • Rockwell announces education presentation schedule for PACK EXPO 2016

    Rockwell will host an educational session at their booth on each day of the event. Located in Booth N-4570, Rockwell Automation presentations will focus on track and trace, remote monitoring and smart machines.
    06 October, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • How to Avoid Common Tuning Mistakes With PID Controllers

    How to Avoid Common Tuning Mistakes With PID Controllers

    The success of advanced control depends on the basic control system foundation. The PID controller is the common key component of all control loops.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    05 October, 2016 | 15 minutes
  • Okuma announces Systems Insights as newest member in Partners in THINC

    System Insights provides technology for Smart Factory, Industry 4.0, and IIoT client initiatives. Members of Partners in THINC provide superior technologies that are integrated with Okuma’s CNC machines and controls to deliver advanced manufacturing system solutions.
    29 September, 2016 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By Okuma America Corporation
  • NUM launches NUMmill CNC control solution

    NUMmill is designed specifically for CNC milling machine manufacturers and control retrofitters. It offers an extensive suite of canned cycles, ranging from simple center drilling, boring and threading to pocket cycles and complex profile milling cycles
    19 September, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • Where Do Humans Fit in the Factory of the Future?

    Where Do Humans Fit in the Factory of the Future?

    As technology grows in sophistication and complexity, it is vital to define new and improved skills, knowledge, and experiences.
    By: Contributing Authors
    19 September, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • Siemens introduces Fleet Manager for Machine Tools app for MindSphere

    With this cloud-based application (MindApp), machine tools at small or large production sites can be monitored, and their availability and productivity enhanced.
    13 September, 2016 | 1 minute
  • 2015 PAR Insights: Leveraging Supply Chain Solutions with Stage-By-Component

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Automated Guided Vehicles (AVG) served as an enabling technology for a pharmaceutical manufacturer to achieve Stage By Component (SBC) – the delivery of every component required in the production process, "when I need it and where I need it."
    09 September, 2016 | 5 minutes
  • 5ME announces agreement with Star SU to advance cryogenic machining

    A licensing agreement has been signed authorizing Star SU to manufacture and market 5ME’s Cryogenic tooling designs for end mills, ball mills, tapered ball mills, thread mills, reamers, and drills under the brand name BlueZone Cryogenic tooling.
    01 September, 2016 | 1 minute
  • ABB announces Parts Fingerprint service

    The ABB Parts Fingerprint service captures equipment configurations, audits parts stores, and develops recommendations and replacement strategies to reduce production risk and find cost efficiencies.
    30 August, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • Okuma welcomes Velocity/Briney to Partners in THINC

    Members of Partners in THINC provide technologies that are integrated with Okuma’s CNC machines and controls to deliver advanced manufacturing system solutions.
    24 August, 2016 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By Okuma America Corporation
  • Tracy-Widom Approach to F-16 Aircraft Sensor-Actuator Fault Detection

    Tracy-Widom Approach to F-16 Aircraft Sensor-Actuator Fault Detection

    A fault detection approach based on the Tracy-Widom distribution is presented and applied to an F-16 aircraft flight control system.
    By: ISA Transactions
    24 August, 2016 | 1 minute
  • FANUC America announces expansion of CNC training program

    FANUC currently offers a range of training courses covering CNC maintenance, operations and programming, servo and laser maintenance, Ladder/PMC editing, FANUC Picture Development, G-code programming, custom macro programming, conversational programming and more.
    16 August, 2016 | 1 minute
  • Fives announces launch of Liné Machines Robotics

    The robotics options will complement the traditional, large machine tool solutions already being provided to the aerospace, rail and heavy equipment industries.
    28 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • Eclipse Automation joins newly formed Smart Automation Group

    This partnership – which includes Eclipse Automation, Insys Industriesysteme AG, Transmoduls Ltd, SMZ Wickel-und Montagetechnik AG, JULI Technology, and ITE Automation – is forming to share best practices and industry IP to provide customers with automation solutions
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • Allied announces Rebecca Weiser and Mary Edmonds as new directors

    Weiser joins Allied as Product Director in Product Management for the Interconnect, Passives and Electromechanical category of industrial automation products. Edmonds was promoted to Director of Web Development in Marketing for eCommerce.
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • FIPA builds End-of-Arm-Tooling to enhance FANUC robotics

    Built in FIPA’s American facilities, and installed in the testing and demonstration laboratory at FANUC headquarters in Rochester Hills, Michigan, this custom EOAT solution features four flat vacuum cups especially designed for heavy-duty ejector for process reliability.
    27 July, 2016 | 2 minutes
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