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Oberg expands equipment and capacity
Contract manufacturer Oberg Industries, Freeport, Pa., has invested in new equipment to expand its production of medium and large machined components and assemblies.
Fastenal industrial vending machines reach milestone
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.
MTConnect announces student challenge
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.
Airline industry lifts manufacturing
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.
Okuma expands warehouse, increases service
Charlotte, N.C.-based Okuma America Corp.'s newly-expanded warehouse increases the company's capacity for mechanical repair and exchange service, providing faster spindle and cam box replacement service, according to the company.
Veterans bring skills to Fives Machining
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.
3D printing cuts production costs in half
Stratasys Ltd., a leading global provider of additive manunfacturing (AM) solutions, this week reported that Italian Service Bureau, ZARE, has halved production costs for its direct manufacturing customers in automotive and aerospace since purchasing a fleet of Stratasys Fortus 3D Production Systems.
M2 Cusing Multilaser System
Toolcraft has once again expanded its machinery in order to more effectively meet the requirements of customers. The company has invested in an M2 cusing multilaser system made by Concept Laser, thereby extending its range to five laser melting machines.
Georg Protection World – Life Cycle Quality Management
For reaching sustainable technical top performances high product quality is not the only mattering factor. In today's world of increasing competition also a line's efficiency has to be ensured by high line availability. Therefore Heinrich Georg GmbH Maschinenfabrik as a high-tech manufacturer of machine tools, finishing lines and transformer production lines is now offering its machinery with an expanded service: Georg protection world – Life Cycle Quality Management.
Inspection Xpert
K2D-KeyToData GmbH announced today the availability of the latest versions of InspectionXpert that includes many customer-driven enhancements for even faster creation of first article inspections.
OPTIMAX 365 UV-A LED Flashlight
The Spectroline OPTIMAX 365 from Spectronics is a cordless, rechargeable UV-A (365 nm) LED flashlight that is for nondestructive testing applications such as MPI, FPI and general fluorescent examination.
Pico Series Laser
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.
