General Machining & Manufacturing Processes

Terry Iverson, a machine tool industry veteran, is on a quest to change the perception of the American manufacturing workforce landscape. The manufacturing floor is not what it once was. Computerized, clean and automated cells have emerged in the market and need an entirely new level of shop expertise.

Atlatl Software, which offers the QuoteBooks Cloud, CPQ and Visual CPQ products geared towards the unique manufacturer and distributor relationship, announces a new product offering: bCommerce Visual Configurator. Building on the success of their manufacturing-specific Visual CPQ platform, bCommerce gives users access to Atlatl's 3D Visual Configurator from their web browser.

No. 797 is a 260º F (127º C), electrically heated, Class 100 clean room cabinet oven from Grieve, currently used for drying coatings onto printed circuit boards at the customer's facility. Workspace dimensions of this oven measure 36" W x 36" D x 39" H.

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U.S. manufacturing is not in decline but alive and well, producing record levels of output in recent quarters despite significant price deflation for manufactured goods. No other sector of the U.S. economy delivers greater value to American consumers than manufacturing when it comes to providing more and more output at prices that have declined annually by 2.64 percent in real inflation-adjusted terms over the past quarter century.

I'm not a morning person. If it were up to me, all alarm clocks on Earth would be rounded up and smashed with a giant hammer, their electronic corpses left to rot in a landfill far, far away from my home in Tucson, Arizona. I'm not sure what people on other planets do about the whole alarm clock situation, but I assume they are more advanced than humans and therefore late sleepers like me. Unless my dad's predictions about the looming extraterrestrial invasion are accurate, however, we'll never know.

Penn Stainless Products recently installed a new Koike Aronson Versagraph Millennium Series plasma cutting system (Model 6300) at its Jackson Center facility. The new unit provides western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio the same high-quality cuts available through PSP's Quakertown facility at shorter delivery times. The system utilizes Hypertherm HPR800XD HyPerformance plasma technology for a clean, consistent cut up to 2.5" thick, and features an extra-wide cutting envelope of 10 feet wide x 40 feet long.

To gain more knowledge about Industry 4.0 developments, I participated in the Taiwan Smart Machinery Media Tour Aug. 20-24. The Taiwan External Trade Development Council hosted the event. The council reports that Taiwan has the highest density of precision machinery cluster in the world, exports almost 80 percent of its products and is the fifth largest export country for machine tools.

Thin cut-off wheels from PFERD cut faster than conventional wheels, leaving a cleaner cut with minimal burr formation. They are ideally suited for thin-gauge sheet metal, thin-walled tubing and small-diameter cross sections. These cool-cutting wheels exhibit excellent aggressiveness and service life and are ergonomically designed to minimize vibration, noise and dust.

The Republican Party has become the party of blue-collar America. After the 1992 election, 15 of the 20 most manufacturing-intensive congressional districts in the U.S. were represented by Democrats. Today, all 20 are held by Republicans. The shift of manufacturing from a Democratic stronghold to a Republican one is a major force remaking the two parties. It helps explain Donald Trump's political success, the rise of Republican protectionism and the nation's polarized politics. It will help shape this year's midterm elections.

HARTLAND, Wis., (August 23, 2018) — Todd Kaull has been named Vice President – Global Operations for Dorner.

As manufacturing industries, such as automotive and aerospace, continue to grow in the southeast, technical and robotics training will only become more crucial.