Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Manufacturers’ Monthly sits down with David Green, Sevaan Group CEO, about current trends in component manufacturing in a hectic and dynamic marketplace, challenges and how Sevaan Group is preparing to meet the highs and lows of tomorrow. Current component manufacturing trends. David Green, CEO, Sevaan Group.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

JANUARY 16, 2025

When its pumping reliably, your manufacturing operations benefit from predictability providing your business with a rock-solid foundation for growth. Examples include lead times, cost savings, and supplier reliability. As covered in our previous blog , warehousing and distribution management is of critical importance.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Markforged has been at the forefront of additive manufacturing for the past 10 years, helping manufacturers revolutionise the industrial production landscape by bringing 3D printing right to the factory floor. This advancement opened new possibilities for manufacturing stronger and more resilient parts.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This material resulted from the company’s collaboration with HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division to develop materials and process parameters for laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. CuNi30 is often used to manufacture pipe fittings and valves for the marine (e.g., Learn more about CuNi30 here.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2025

Additionally, many CNC manufacturers offer comprehensive training and ongoing support to help fabricators quickly get up to speed. Eliminating outsourcing reduces vendor markups and lead times, both of which affect the bottom line, and minimizes any shipping delays.

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This material resulted from the company’s collaboration with HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division to develop materials and process parameters for laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. CuNi30 is often used to manufacture pipe fittings and valves for the marine (e.g.,

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 24, 2025

The acquisition of Wittenbaker Engineering Services is a strategic move that significantly bolsters Motion’s growth strategy in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in manufacturing, design, and project execution, Fitzpatrick said. Fitzpatrick emphasised Wittenbakers strengths as a key fit for Motion.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Within additive manufacturing, there is a big focus on part and application qualification. This takes time and requires a collaborative effort amongst OEMs, users, and research institutes. related to the Additive Manufacturing Policy. In March of 2020, the Department of the Navy published Marine Corps Order 4700.4

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This project involved collaboration on the technical considerations, cost management strategies and project management approaches necessary to successfully complete the project — from designing and manufacturing the tooling to molding and adjusting the tooling for the final parts.

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Automation Mag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Unirope, a company specializing in manufacturing, distributing, testing, certification, and inspection of high-performance wire rope and rigging products, has added 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space to its headquarters. The expansion represents the completion of a journey that started in 2018.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

Allocate an appropriate amount of time to think about items you have seen fail in your plant or shop during normal operations and how failure likelihood could increase by a shutdown. Weigh this against ordering lead time to create an effective critical spare parts program. Push-to-connect fittings snapped off or cracked.

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E&T

MARCH 23, 2023

Download free whitepaper 3D printing has been on the rise amongst aerospace manufacturers. Key Learning Outcomes: How additive manufacturing fits into the aerospace industry. How aerospace companies overcome compliance and regulatory hurdles when using additive manufacturing. Download free whitepaper

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Canadian Manufacturing

OCTOBER 25, 2022

TORONTO — Blade, a Canadian commercial indoor air quality technology manufacturer, has announced a distribution agreement with Betco Ltd., a leading distributor of engineered products in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 24, 2023

“One of the reasons we were selected for this project – besides the fact that this is a highly specialised application – is that we are local specialist manufacturer who are price-competitive,” adds Capelli. To complete the jack system, Vector Lifting sought gearboxes from its long-time supplier, Bonfiglioli. “We

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

We specialize in producing molds and molded parts for the most demanding applications, most often tight tolerance and functionally critical parts such as gears, housings and fittings. This technological shift has allowed MPC Advanced Machining to reduce lead times, improve consistency and take on more complex projects with greater accuracy.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 11, 2023

Manufacturers’ Monthly explores how SQP Engineering has progressed from a sub-contract machine shop to a manufacturing solutions hub with the help of Markforged 3D printing systems. Before additive manufacturing, we often had to tell the customer their methods, drawings or even the whole concept and eventual outcome needed to change.

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Automation Mag

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Data is one of the most powerful tools that manufacturers can use today to improve their processes efficiently and grow their businesses. Manufacturing AUTOMATION recently interviewed Hugo Lafontaine, vice-president of industry at Schneider Electric Canada, for insights on leveraging data.

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Manufacturing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Supply Chain Automation 64

Control Engineering

AUGUST 14, 2022

Manufacturers can maximize the space with modular enclosures and get added flexibility on the plant floor. Modular enclosures also can be connected to cloud-based tools, which can create streamlined workflows for installing electrical controls, wiring and more, giving the user deeper insights into what’s happening on the manufacturing floor.

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ATS

MAY 14, 2024

Share Minimizing unplanned downtime should be a priority in every manufacturing plant. It’s disruptive and expensive, it leads to accidents, and it causes a lot of waste. Downtime refers to any time when production equipment is not available to run, but there is work for it to do. However, not all downtime is necessarily bad.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

JUNE 15, 2023

Given the hyper-competitive nature of the manufacturing industry and how reliant each part of the supply chain is upon the various other players up and down the line, establishing strong supplier relationships is vital. Supplier Management How do you know if a supplier is a good fit for your company?

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Supply Chain Value chain Lead Time Compliance 83

Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 20, 2023

Almost every tool that TTI manufactures has at least one gear, and bringing that production in-house would be a boon. Each machine tool uses a specific control type, which requires G-codes unique to each machine manufacturer. ’ Now it’s, ‘No problem.’” ’”

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Fastener News Desk

JUNE 5, 2024

Acquisition of South Carolina-based Fastener Manufacturer Supports Portland Bolt’s Expansion into the Southeast. June 3, 2024 – Portland, OR Portland Bolt & Manufacturing Co., Their product quality and commitment to being a preferred supplier in our industry is a good fit with our team. RELATED CONTENT: H.B.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Credit: Unirope) Unirope is a manufacturer and distributor of high-performance wire rope and rigging products. Justin Brown, president at Unirope, said: “At a minimum we have cut lead times in half, and in the best case we have seen a 400% improvement. and Europe.

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SMMT

JULY 4, 2024

Barnsley-based Tapfreight will pair the new trailers, manufactured at Schmitz’s production facility in Manchester, with its DAF and Mercedes-Benz tractor units to transport chemical goods and general freight across the UK. The lead time was another plus point for us, and the level of service we have received has been first class.”

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 13, 2023

Photo Credit: Next Chapter Manufacturing Looking over the vast landscape of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, the various material options and the number of experts in the market can leave you more confused than ever. These were both cutting-edge technologies for reducing lead times, but many hurdles still existed.

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3D printing Cycle time Additive manufacturing Lead Time 98

Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

CSIA and CESMII help system integrators with Smart Manufacturing. Integrating automation and control devices and systems improves Smart Manufacturing and can improve connections with higher-level systems helping supply chain integration. System integration, smart manufacturing competitive insights. Learning Objectives.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 23, 2023

Pulp and paper mills support close to 70,000 full-time jobs – primarily in rural and regional areas Australia wide – contributing $3.7 As a driving force in Australia’s manufacturing sector, the decline in accessible resources and the need to convert to more sustainable practises, has forced innovation on the paper and board industry.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It’s critical to keep in mind how your 3D-printed design translates to injection molding for both manufacturability and cost. When comparing potential manufacturing processes against criteria like price and lead time, there are many things to keep in mind. Photo Credit, all images: Protolabs Inc.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 3, 2025

If time allowed, I would have visited every booth to see all the innovative technology the show had to offer. A technology trend I have noticed gaining more traction is additive manufacturing. The product functions to reduce lead times and cost while maintaining high quality.

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3D printing Lead Time Additive manufacturing Function 78

AU Manufacturing

JANUARY 14, 2023

It provides a comprehensive analysis of global manufacturing of clean energy technologies today – such as solar panels, wind turbines, EV batteries , electrolysers for hydrogen and heat pumps – and their supply chains around the world, as well as mapping out how they are likely to evolve as the clean energy transition advances in the years ahead.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

MSI Mold Builders identified a bottleneck at the very start of its manufacturing process where it squared mold blocks and drilled and tapped eye-bolt holes to rapidly and safely move large blocks around the floor. Conservatively, that Unisig saves us six to 10 hours of setup time in the first step of our operation.”

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AU Manufacturing

APRIL 21, 2023

Article by Oleg Yermanok, Application Engineering Manager, Massivit 3D Additive manufacturing (AM) has the ability to disrupt industrial processes and to facilitate the achievement of innovative, cost-effective, and speedy outcomes when compared to traditional production processes.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The results: The impact and benefits achieved by implementing the solution, including quantifiable metrics like cost savings, reduced lead times, improved quality, etc. In short, Zero Tolerance wanted a machine that could do it all while still being compact enough to fit in limited floor space. Read the full article.

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MEM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Machine monitoring software from FourJaw has driven a 14% uplift in machine utilisation at a luxury goods manufacturer. Fast-growing brass cabinet hardware manufacturer Armac Martin used data from FourJaw’s machine monitoring platform to increase its production capacity and meet a surge in demand for its product range.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The time is now for manufacturers to start planning for their future. Technological advances, rapidly shifting market conditions, and an industry remaking itself in response to macro global trends mean that manufacturers’ very survival depends on their ability to adapt, innovate and endure.

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Automation Robotics 52

Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 1, 2024

The mobile HB, fitted with a five-axis PH20, can be placed on or near a production line to provide dimensional verification and process flow monitoring in real time. With the current economy, labor shortages and lead times for new and leased equipment continuing to grow, companies need versatile options.

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Fit Lead Time Sourcing Automation 52

Mold Making Technology

APRIL 2, 2023

It produces molds for straight injection, low-pressure/structural foam, gas-assist, 2K/overmolding and stack molds sized to fit presses with clamping pressures between 50 and 6,600 tons/tonnes, although 1,000 to 3,000 tons/tonnes is considered CDM’s sweet spot. “First was the size and capabilities of their machines.

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