Software & Digital Solutions

Realtrac Shop Management Software helped Michigan CNC Tool organize quoting, improve traceability, and gain clearer day-to-day production visibility.

Metal cutting used to be about making chips, but in modern manufacturing it is just part of the story. In today's digital world, metal might be a product's core component, but data is the raw material that drives improvement. That was clearly the case at DMG Mori's Chicago Innovation Days held May 13-16 at the company's Hoffman Estates, IL, facility.

Modern maintenance professionals understand the basic importance of their computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). After all, it is an essential tool when it comes to scheduling and tracking maintenance work. Yet, a CMMS has so much more potential as a value provider to the business. To untap its true power, let us first discuss the holistic approach to maintenance.

The latest version of WORKNC – just released by Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence's Production Software business – continues its focus on customers' shop floor productivity by expanding its exclusive Advanced Toolform technology with the introduction of 5-axis machining for any tool shape. WORKNC 2020.0 allows for 5-axis tool shapes such as barrels, ovals, parabolic or any given shape to be calculated over part surfaces, including negative offsets (allowances).

Irvine, CA - CGTech Technical Support Engineers will be on hand at the National Leadership and Skills Conference (NLSC) in Louisville, KY, June 25-27. Each year, CGTech staff proctor multiple SkillsUSA/NIMS competitions related to Computer Numeric Control (CNC) machining. In addition to grading competitions, CGTech will run its latest version of VERICUT CNC simulation software, in Booth S145.

The ability to peer inside machined parts allows metrologists to make better decisions faster.

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The latest release of WORKPLAN, from the Production Software business of Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, includes new and enhanced functionality making it the first integrated project management system combining ERP and MES in a single database. Incorporating new features normally only found in MES solutions, WORKPLAN 2020.0 is now positioning itself as the main tool for centralizing a company's data to improve production management, including machine events, monitoring, CMMS, CAM supervision, workflow and part traceability.

(CHICAGO) — The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) announces today that it will be renamed MxD and will stand as an independent organization from UI LABS, now that it has achieved strong momentum and robust fiscal health.

Manufacturing is in the midst of a period of unprecedented change as we transition from the industrial age to the information age. The manufacturers that will prove best able to capture value amid this transition will be those that can best manage complexity and embrace flexibility. A new layer of manufacturing software has emerged to answer this call.

Mike Gampetro has a great job. As a CNC programmer for the Proposal Engineering Dept. at Ingersoll Cutting Tools, Rockford, Illinois, he spends his days improving customers' machining processes. It could be an Inconel part where Gampetro suggests ways to increase tool life, or it could be a long-runner where every second of cycle time counts. Either way, it's his job to generate ideas his customers can then use to produce more parts in less time, and hopefully reduce their operating costs along the way.

This is the 20th episode in Cutting Tool Engineering's CNC Chef video series, which is produced in collaboration with Bob Warfield of CNCCookbook.com.