The new installation at Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery in Finsparingng employs 20 engineers and operators producing burner tips and other parts for industrial gas turbines
Siemens Now Producing Gas Turbine Parts by Metal 3DP
Feb 04, 2016
$23.8-million workshop is first of its kind in Sweden, for production/repair of IGT components Metal laser sintering Faster development, production, repair More design complexity
10 More New Ideas for Cutting, Tooling, Designing, Machining, and Shop Management
10 More New Ideas for Cutting, Tooling, Designing, Machining, and Shop Management
Feb 04, 2016
There is a steady flow of new technology and product releases, updates and improvements that machine operators, programmers and shop owners and managers must know about. Here’s the list that caught our eyes this week, for programming...
10 Must-See Ideas for Cutting, Tooling, Programming, Machining, and Shop Management
10 Must-See Ideas for Cutting, Tooling, Programming, Machining, and Shop Management
Jan 28, 2016
There is a steady flow of new technology and product releases, updates and improvements that machine operators, programmers and shop owners and managers must know about. Here’s the list that caught our eyes this week, for programming...
The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on January 28 1986 killing all seven crewmembers
Reevaluating Risk Management 30 Years After the Challenger Disaster
Jan 27, 2016
The 1986 Space Shuttle explosion is a case study in engineering safety and workplace ethics...
ITM skills are focused on maintaining troubleshooting and improving complex machines and automation systems including multiaxis machines conveying operations robotics and hydraulic systems
NIMS Initiative to Address High-Tech Industrial 'Skills Gap'
Jan 20, 2016
Joins with LIFT, community college in initiative to train instructors for Industrial Technology Maintenance Manufacturing systems for automotive, aerospace, more +53,000 ITM jobs posted in 2015 Educational partnerships, workshops
Lockheed adopted 5MErsquos cryogenic machining system with an Okuma horizontal center increasing cutting speeds by 52 with improved surface integrity and part quality with an estimated 30 cost reduction for large titanium airframe components
Lockheed Cutting F-35 Titanium Processing Costs Using Cryogenics
Jan 13, 2016
Patented cooling technology makes roughing, finishing airframes faster, less expensive, more energy efficient Okuma MA-60HII horizontal machining 5ME process, LN2 at -321°F Operators set flow rate
Hooked on Precision Machining
Hooked on Precision Machining
Jan 13, 2016
One shop has a line on new business, and its skills seem sure to hook new customers ...
Member associations from Germany Italy and Spain developed the METALS to improve the relevance of vocational education and training programs for the machine tool industry by bringing together industry representatives VET providers and regulators from their home countries
Machine Tool Builders Pushing for Focused Skills Program
Jan 06, 2016
CECIMO sets up a program to identify, groom advanced manufacturing skills for machine tool building ‘METALS’, the MachinE Tool ALliance for Skills Develop curriculum, launching e-learning Improve labor market intelligence
No one knows what products engineers will be creating or what tools they will be using in 2045 Ongoing learning in engineering and design is the only solution for keeping uptodate with rapidly evolving technology in the emerging knowledge economy
Identifying the Skills, Training the Engineers for 2045
Jan 01, 2016
What new skills will engineers need to develop in the next 30 years? Continuous learning Rejoining design and manufacturing Green leaders
System Tracks Parts Reliably with High-Intensity Vision
System Tracks Parts Reliably with High-Intensity Vision
Dec 10, 2015
At a Tier One automotive engine plant, cylinder heads are marked immediately after casting with a dot-peen 2D matrix-style barcode for traceability. Locating those codes on each casting in a subsequent finishing process was a complex problem ...
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