In a traditional business mindset, manufacturers stringently limit the extent to which they expose their plans and processes beyond their internal audience. They consult with developers and technicians to select new resources that augment their capabilities, but they make most of their developmental moves as secret as possible to avoid losing a competitive…
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As an increasingly global industry, manufacturing continues to become more competitive year after year, which means shops have to continuously improve just to keep up. In many cases, this has included a move to high-mix/low-volume (HMLV) production strategies, which give manufacturers the agility they need to quickly respond to customer needs. To achieve…
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In pure machining terms, the manufacturing industry’s continual quest to produce correctly finished workpieces at a certain cost in a certain amount of time has reached the end of the line. Unless a breakthrough tooling solution appears, traditional approaches focused solely on boosting metal removal rates will at best squeeze out at a…
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