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American Machinist Weekly Update

 
In The Spotlight
Siemens, DMG Mori, Walter, and TRAK Machine Tools collaborated to integrate advanced design, production planning, and manufacturing functions into the workflow for critical components.
Top Stories
Too many organizations lack a strategy for shifting from document-centered development, a shift that allows them to build out a digital information thread, and drive more innovative activities and products.
The German Machine Tool Builders' Assn. expects production volumes to decrease in 2024, as weak demand continues and the backlog of new orders declines.
With 1.85 billion metric tons of steel produced worldwide during the past year, steelmakers appear to have aligned output with the weakened industrial and construction activities prevailing from January through December.
A rotating panel of voices offer regular insights for the people who manufacture and handle things - and those who manage and maintain the facilities where that work gets done.
If you don't know the cost of something, you cannot know how to value it.
Editor's Choice
The merger adds new precision grinding technologies to the JTEKT portfolio, and extends automation, application engineering, controls, and rebuild services to Koyo machine operators.
Solid-carbide drill optimized for heat-resistant super alloys, with -SD geometry for consistent and predictable tool life and high hole integrity, is for applications with high quality standards for processes and products.
The SmartBench PrecisionPro X has automated feed and speed functionality, and with accessory dust shoe and monitor it can operate economically and with minimil interruptions.
 
 

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