Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 20, 2025

AI Optimizes Manufacturing AI can accelerate many tasks in a machine shop or other production environment to reduce waste in labor and materials while improving production efficiency. And as shops continue to invest in digitalization, the benefits of AI will also increase.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 3, 2025

Brother-and-sister team Mark and Nancy Rohlfs founded the plastics shop just before the Great Recession and moved into a new building just as the COVID-19 lockdowns began. Transcript: Evan Doran (Associate Editor, Modern Machine Shop): Ingenuity, resourcefulness, a knack for spotting under-exploited opportunities.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

ABB’s RB 1000i-S paint atomizer allows for a 10% reduction in paint per vehicle, which increases paint shop efficiency and delivers financial savings ABB has launched the RB 1000i-S paint atomizer to revolutionize automotive paint shops. Cost savings can also be significant. For example, where a manufacturer utilizes a 2.5-liter

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Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Image: ECI Solutions The job shop manufacturing sector in Australia is a significant part of the overall manufacturing industry, creating unique products with tailored specifications. However, job shop manufacturers face a variety of challenges that can impact efficiency and customer satisfaction.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 22, 2025

Modern Machine Shop exists largely to shine a light on real-world applications for evolving CNC-machining related technologies. Most of our content’s sources are shops and shop leaders — an approach that we think delivers unfiltered benefits. The best presentations at TASC are not built around theoretical concepts.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Servo positioners – providing the versatility and accuracy many job shops require to meet stringent demands, these positioners help to timely execute a range of welding tasks by accessing all welds without manual intervention, as well as providing simultaneous processing of parts while loading/unloading the opposite side. End Note: 1.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

The flexible and reliable solution for small-to-medium sized shops. With its resources and tools, Prima Power offers a one-stop shop to its customers, acting as an integrator, automation provider and a reliable machine tool provider. Prima Powers new Platino Linear fiber laser at work cutting intricate electrical enclosures.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Granite State Manufacturing’s two five-axis Soraluce machines enable the shop to maintain tight tolerances on several large weldments and help the shop keep up with a steady workflow: two systems per year for Virginia-class submarines and one system per year for Columbia-class submarines.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 6, 2025

“A lot of our customers are other machine shops around New England, because they’ll get orders for machining metals, but then one of their customers might have a couple plastic parts. All photos by Modern Machine Shop. Nancy and Mark both credit some of this growth to the shop’s location in southern Connecticut.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Here he shares a mix of insight, practical advice and personal perspective on the role of sales in a mold shop. The unique challenges mold shop sales professionals face when balancing technical expertise with relationship-building. We discuss the following: 1. We dive into the importance of structured onboarding and its customization.

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Design World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

ABB has launched the RB 1000i-S paint atomizer to revolutionize automotive paint shops. In addition, central efficiency and… The post ABB launches new paint atomizer, making paint shops more efficient and sustainable appeared first on Design World.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 30, 2025

For years, CNC shops have struggled with disconnected spreadsheets, manual tracking, and inefficient workflows that slow down production. SolidShop can even serve as a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), bringing real-time visibility and control to the entire shop floor. It can lead to major costs on the shop floor.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

ShopFloorConnect is an on-premises software solution that provides timely, accurate, and unbiased data directly from the shop floor for making informed management decisions. link] The post Flexible and Affordable Purchase Options for Shop Floor Software appeared first on Fabricating & Metalworking.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Shops can kind of be the dumping ground of the school. That was the case at the first shop I inherited. A year later the local shop teacher left and I applied and got that job. I had a big shop, but it was cluttered with junk. It's a real shop. I could teach and I could be around all the stuff I like.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 24, 2025

My father worked at a machine shop in California before moving to Chicago. I was cleaning the shop, cleaning the tanks, helping with the shop. I was cleaning the shop, cleaning the tanks, helping with the shop. Fast forward, my uncle wanted to open his own grinding shop. Not a competitor, but YouTube.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 16, 2025

While it’s almost impossible to deny that real-time machine monitoring poses great benefits to machine shops, it’s equally impossible to deny that how much it helps a shop depends on the shop in question. Wilson says that most MES projects begin with the software and add on the real-time data later.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Plus, Mazak Capital Equipment Financing allows shops to easily move their manufacturing forward with one-stop, factory-direct financing on Mazak equipment. www.platinumtooling.com The post Versatile Turning Center Solutions Ensure Your Shop Stays Competitive appeared first on Fabricating and Metalworking.

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Design World

JULY 2, 2024

a mix of personal injury lawyers, fast food, and cannabis shops. Shower tomorrow” is the message on a billboard I just passed. It stood out from the others along I-75 near Flint, Mich., As it happened, I was listening to a podcast on water. Seemed fitting.

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i4.0 today

MARCH 17, 2025

Global Shop Solutions, a leading ERP software provider for manufacturers worldwide, proudly celebrates the 20-year anniversary of John Davis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Davis began his manufacturing career working with a company that used Global Shop Solutions ERP software in their business. Today Magazine.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Kooyers says that these parts are more appealing to modern job shops than the “classic” CTE parts — and that the 10th part’s ISO grid requirements help students learn how to make aerospace parts, which proves a useful resume builder for many regional job shops.

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MRPEasy

JANUARY 13, 2025

Throughput time is an important KPI in manufacturing management, helping companies to improve performance both on the shop floor and in the supply chain. Lets take a deeper dive into the metric. What is throughput time? Throughput time is the amount of time it takes to manufacture a product from start to finish.

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Robotics Automation News

APRIL 7, 2025

BMW has taken a significant step forward in its automation strategy with the commissioning of an expanded body shop at its Regensburg vehicle plant in Neutraubling, Germany.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 19, 2025

Before he opened his own shop , his parents gave him money from a home equity loan to buy his first machine. He worked on Brown & Sharpe machines, and as kids we’d visit him at the shop to spend time with him while he worked around the clock. Shops like ours fill the gap between minimum-wage jobs and professional careers.

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Automation World

OCTOBER 14, 2024

By integrating the new generative AI-powered assistant into Siemens Totally Integrated Automation Portal, Schaeffler engineers can generate code for its controllers and enable maintenance teams to more quickly identify errors and generate step-by-step corrections.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Modular tooling assemblies can be a major advantage for shops that need flexibility or specialized tooling. For job shops that have to meet a variety of cutting needs, this reality comes with tradeoffs. This choice, however, could come at the expense of the shop’s high-speed machining needs.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 1, 2025

a manufacturing company that tackles energy control in both aerospace (think fuel management) and power generation, smooth operation of the digital factory means gathering real-time data from machines, making decisions from that data, and sending instructions back down to the shop floor. .” At Woodward Inc. ,

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Modern Machine Shop

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Turning this raw data into actionable insights is a key part of modern machine shop software. Rob Caron, founder and president of Caron Engineering, predicts that this sort of software will become increasingly useful as robotics becomes more common across machine shop floors.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 27, 2025

He must have done work on Saturday morning, so my brother and I had to go in and we were exposed to a larger shop. And then when he bought his plastic machine shop in 1985, I was in high school. Mark and Nancy Rohlfs left their family shop to start their East Coast Precision Manufacturing on January 1 st , 2006.

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Cisco Industrial Automation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Industry research shows that by 2023, 30% of manufacturers will enhance their shop floor digital twin with real-time signal transponder data, leading to an 80% reduction in logistic bottlenecks in shop floor and storage areas – Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Manufacturing 2021.

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MRPEasy

APRIL 28, 2025

For small manufacturers, having a clear understanding of what’s happening on the shop floor is paramount to meeting production goals. Efficient production reporting is an essential aspect of manufacturing, ensuring a clear view of operations. What is production reporting?

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Path Robotics said both of its welding cells can autonomously weld steel parts and are deployed in fabrication shops across the U.S. The AF-1 Robotic Welding Cell, on the other hand, can pick, fit, and weld parts without human intervention. and Canada. “As

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

According to Andy Peterson, COO of Pyramid Molding Group, the decision to prioritize expanding the shop’s capacity over treating each project as a separate profit center was pivotal. ” This was around the time we partnered with Global Shop.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 6, 2025

Department of Defense (DoD) can quickly find trusted American manufacturing shops to help build stuff for the military—like parts for submarines, planes or high-tech gear. It’s all about making it easier for the DoD to work with shops that can make things fast and safe, using technology like 3D printing or robots.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Don’t be spooked by old, outdated workholding As the autumn leaves fall and jack-o’-lanterns light up porches, a different kind of fright might lurk in your machine shop. These fears can paralyze production and turn your shop floor into a scene from a horror movie. Forget outdated fixtures that haunt your shop.

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