The manufacturing supply chain is a pipeline of facts, figures, ideas, insights, and reactions, all of it valuable to machine operators and programmers looking to improve their performance.
Today, manufacturers are practical, creative, open to opportunities, and ready to work with the technologies available now. This special report looks at advanced manufacturing technology as it is now, and where it is leading today's manufacturers.
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Additive manufacturing has slowly grown its consumer "street cred" with cool models and shiny prototypes, but this past IMTS proved the tech can hang on the factory floor as well.
In the vast expanse of 2018 International Manufacturing Technology Show, equaling 1,424,232 square feet, here are the tools and equipment that stood out.
