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Metal Cutting
Michael Waltrip Racing installs a waterjet cutting system to cut 20 percent of its parts made in-house.
The Zen of Operating Strategy: Invest wisely to meet demand. Update equipment (controls) regularly. Don't lock your focus on a single industry. Grow with your customers. Keep up with technology. Respect your workforce.
But judging by their ability to pay their bills, this report shows they are uniformly in good financial shape.
Gears from the "potato field": Modern manufacturing technology, well-founded knowledge and farsighted engagement make source location issues less important.
CNC Software added new videos to the Multimedia section of the Mastercam.com website, giving customers the opportunity to explore some of the latest features in the Mastercam family with downloadable video demonstrations, narrated overviews, and documents highlighting powerful new tools.
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Sheet Flatness Achieved Without Distortion: A special forming tool embosses stainless steel exterior wall panels for a spectacular Manhattan condominium.
A radically new automated tube bending cell has been developed by Unison. It provides a complete end-to-end loading/end-forming/bending and vision inspection process in the footprint typically required for a standalone tube-bending machine. Called Uni-vercell, its innovative, all-electric machine architecture centered on an articulated robot arm breaks new ground in terms of performance and compactness.
The HF Stacking Cradle System from Schmidt Structural Products is a modular system that easily stores long goods, coils, and flat stock. The system is transportable and adaptable. Designed to easily store long material lengths in capacities from 2 to 5 tons and up to 10 units high, it can help to increase usable facility floor space and avoid material loss or damage due to excessive handling.
Controlled Automation now offers a range of automated shotblasting machines manufactured in the U.S. and specifically designed for cleaning structural steel sections and plates. These include the SBM4-60, a four-wheel (blast wheels: 4 x 25 hp) blast cabinet with an opening of 60 in wide x 40 in high. Cleaning capacity is 530 to 1,075 sq ft per hour. Dust collector capacity is 8,000 cfm. This is the most popular machine for the general fabricator.
Beckwood Press Company has built a technologically advanced deep draw press for Orange County Choppers, and will be displaying the drawn tanks and fenders on a production chopper at the 2008 Regional Metalform Show in Birmingham, Alabama on April 1st-3rd at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex. Beckwood will also be exhibiting one of their latest press designs, displaying the latest in hydraulic press technology and features.
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