Hard Facts About the Hardest Cutting Tools
Diamond and CBN cutting tools are powerful weapons, but when and how should they be used? Contributing Writer Michael C. Anderson provides answers. There are two truths that manufacturers more in the mainstream of metal cutting should consider, he writes. While the upfront cost of hard cutting tools may seem a formidable barrier to their use, they can actually reap a great return on investment and reduce one’s cost per part when used in the right application.
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Companies that have mastered the challenges of 3D printing with liquid and soft materials like polymers, including silicone and polyurethane, are bringing other benefits into focus as they grow their share of existing markets or create new ones and take additive manufacturing mainstream. That's the word from Contributing Editor Ilene Wolff.
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Fast Radius Inc., a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company, and ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp. have entered into a definitive agreement that will result in Fast Radius becoming a publicly-listed company. The combined company will have an estimated post-transaction value of $995 million.
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EROWA Robot Easy 800 – Heavy Loading Made Easy
EROWA has expanded on its Robot Easy model for the productive loading and unloading of CNC machine tools with the new Robot Easy 800. Features of the EROWA Robot Easy 800 include its compact design, high degree of configurability and a transfer capacity of up to 800kg (1760 lbs). As a result, a CNC machine tool can be cost effectively turned into an automated production cell.
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NASA has cleared Boeing Co.'s CST-100 Starliner for a July 30 unpiloted test flight to the International Space Station, CBS News said. A December 2019 flight "was marred by major software problems that prevented a planned rendezvous with the station," CBS said. This month's flight will test upgrades ahead of a planned piloted flight by the end of 2021.
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Laser welding of dissimilar materials is a dynamic process and its time has arrived, writes Mohammed Naeem, a senior manager at Prima Power Laserdyne. The company's "developmental work with laser pulse shaping has achieved high quality welds of dissimilar materials," he says.
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Hardinge Inc. said it agreed to acquire J.G Weisser GmbH & Co. KG. Weisser is a German manufacturer and turnkey solution provider of high precision, multifunctional turning machines and turning centers as well as automation solutions.
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General Motors Co. is pausing production of high profit, full-size pickups because of an ongoing semiconductor shortage, the Detroit Free Press said. Factories in Indiana and Mexico are idled this week while a factory in Michigan is operating on only one shift.
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