WOW Project #102 Exact JobBOSS Empowers General Metal WorksIssue: Sales are declining and competitors are cutting into our business.Vision: Implement lean and invest in cuttingedge machines and technology to reposition the company. Results: Sales volume doubled, finished goods inventory was reduced 800%, lead times and set up times were cut in half, achieved ISO certification.www.exactamerica.com
| Articles |
| Demand Is Strong For Big Machines |
| Many shops are experiencing a growing demand for large-part machining jobs. So if your shop is testing the waters in the aerospace, oil and gas, power generation or heavy-equipment markets, you may want to check out some of the technologies offered by machine tool OEMs to not only completely machine large complex parts in single setups, but also provide consistent accuracies from part feature to part feature. Read the full story here |
| Squeeze More Money Out Of Scrap |
| Chip compaction improved one shop’s return on chips by an average of $0.10 a pound. A significant savings when dealing with 3,000-lb of chips per day. Read the full story here |
| Functions Versus Value Streams |
| Instead of focusing on functions, you may want to organize your shop according to value streams. Here are some of the benefits. Read the full story here |
| Make Short Work Of Robot Cleaning |
| Steam or plain water cleaning systems can harm sensitive electrical controllers, cables and wiring on robots. These systems also make robot-cleaning an all-day job. Dry-ice blast systems can shorten this dirty job and not harm robot components. Accelerated C02 pellets traveling at supersonic speeds effectively clean grime, welding residues, paint and other debris from robots, and accomplish the task within a couple hours. Plus the system creates no secondary waste product. Read the full story here |
| Need A Knee Mill? |
| Almost every shop has at least one knee mill. And while the basic designs of these machines haven’t changed much, a lot of machine tool OEMs offer stepped-up versions with easy-to-learn CNCs that drastically increase these machines’ levels of productivity. Read the full story here |
| Hot Products |
Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management.
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Benchmarking at IMTSAmerican Machinist conducted its third annual Benchmark Survey of American Machine Shops between February and April of this year. American Machinist, reviews the results of this third annual survey, and talks about what the data means and how shops can use the data to make plans for this year's IMTS. Watch Now!Tool Shop Optimization: Concurrent Engineering for Today's Machine Shop Applying concurrent engineering processes to design and manufacturing can help toolmakers increase productivity and shorten product delivery times—improving responsiveness to customers and your company's bottom-line results.Watch Now!Sponsored by: Cimatron Group
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| Announcements |
American Machinist Launches New Internet Forum The American Machinist Forum is a place to share thoughts, ideas and best practices for machine shops. The focus is on making machine shops competitive, efficient and flexible enough to compete in a global environment. You'll find discussion about manpower, use of automation and technology, creative uses of machine tools and a whole lot more. So sign up now and jump in. Click Here
| AM Machine Tool Theater |
New Machine Tool TheaterAmerican Machinist announces launch of Machine Tool Theater. Watch videos about machining and machining equipment. You'll see faster, more precise machines; cutting tools to process virtually any material; finishing technologies; automation systems; quality instruments and manufacturing software. You'll see how to reduce cycle times and increase productivity. Watch Videos Now
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