Earlier this summer Fastenal installed an additional FAST Solutions industrial vending machine within the Terex Mixer manufacturing plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Given how many vending devices (machines and lockers) Fastenal installs during a typical business day, it was a commonplace event — except in one regard: that particular machine represented the 50,000th FAST Solutions device concurrently installed at Fastenal customer sites worldwide.
College students with an interest in bringing together software and hardware solutions to improve manufacturing operations now have an opportunity to leverage their creativity through the MTConnect Student Challenge, a competition that invites submissions for both ideas and applications utilizing the MTConnect standard.
Industrial Info Resources, a market research company based in Sugar Land, Texas, reported Aug. 5 that demand for aircraft parts has helped give rise to U.S. manufacturing plant expansions.
U.S. military veterans are finding post-service success at machine tool builder Fives Machining Systems, putting their troubleshooting skills and technical experience to work in field service and customer support positions. Since 2014, the company has hired nearly 20 former members of the various military branches at 10 field service locations throughout the U.S., as well as accepting veterans into its apprenticeship program.
GT 326-E, the newest automatic magazine bar feeder for sliding headstock machines from LNS, loads 12' long bar stock with diameters from 3mm to 20mm (26mm with bar prep).
The new affordable laser named thePico series, designed and manufactured by Bright Solutions, has novel pulsewidths and SLM output for micromachining, ablation, scribing, lidar, non-linear optics and many other industrial, medical, military and R&D tasks.
The Ensemble QDe from Aerotech Inc. is a high-performance desktop nanopositioning piezo drive designed for seamless use with the Ensemble family of drives and controllers.