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• Precision cylindrical grinding machine

  - 2009-08-01

  Grindor, a Junker brand, offers the universal external/internal cylindrical grinding machine "silver," which is designed to produce individual parts or a small series of parts. Suited for automotive manufacturers and suppliers, the silver can be used for applications from general machine construction to toolmaking. It also makes an...

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  - 2009-06-01

  Mastercam/CNC Software Inc. Booth #3133 CNC Software releases Mastercam Router X4, which features nesting improvements and new too[paths, combined with new enhancements, in a package intended to improve shop floor productivity, the company says. Router X4 has nesting drag-and-drop support, allowing the user to perform automatic...

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• Screen saver: incorporating the right CNC software, with displays that saved the customer and support team time and effort, proved to be a winning combination for a specialty machine builder

  - 2008-11-01

  When designing a new tube-forming machine, MJC Engineering, Huntington Beach, CA, a machine tool builder of various metal-spinning machinery, had an open-ended approach. Working with its first customer, a compressed-gas cylinder manufacturer in India, MJC had to fill some challenging parameters. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One market driver for the...

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• Prepping the next generation of metalworkers: a community in rural Idaho took a look at what was needed to prepare its students for jobs in the metalworking industry and implemented an education system to ready them to work in any first-class shop in the

  - 2008-11-01

  While much has been made about the move of the U.S. to a service economy, manufacturing is still the driving force behind our economic development. We won't get rich by selling hamburgers to each other; someone has to make something worth buying by adding value to it in order for...

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• Software release sports improvements

  - 2008-11-01

  Mastercam X3 offers expanded machining flexibility and an increased emphasis on speed and automation. Feature Based Machining, new high speed tool motion, and faster toolpath generation combine with dozens of enhancements in a package intended to improve shop floor productivity. Other functionalities include import of full SolidWorks history trees, expanded...

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• Pilgrim craftsmanship lives on at Plimouth Plantation

  - 2008-10-01

  Sometimes we lose sight of where our woodworking industry came from, what with a lot of attention these days focusing on production automation, CNC software and all things lean. I recently got a firsthand look at how furniture and other items made from wood were made nearly 400 years ago....

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• CNC is the obvious choice for the future-minded shop: CNC offers so many advantages to metalworking shops that it isn't a case of why to make the switch, but when Let's start with the obvious: the benefits of CNC

  - 2008-08-01

  Quick setup is easier than ever, as CAD programming translates into the controller faster than ever. Using any number of data transfer, from Ethernet, to wireless, to a memory stick, developers can import programs into the controller. As I've written, what once was called the "trial cut" can run right...

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• Company anniversaries

  - 2008-08-01

  Wheelabrator Group, LaGrange, GA, celebrated its 100th anniversary. It was founded in Pittsburgh in 1908. The company is a provider of surface preparation and finishing answers. Hypertherm, Hanover, NH, a company specializing in plasma arc metal cutting technology, celebrated its 40th anniversary. The company began in 1968 when Dick...

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• Mastercam/CNC software turns 25

  - 2008-07-01

  CNC Software, Inc. is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2008. The company's Mastercam product is said to have the highest number of CAD/CAM seats installed worldwide, totaling 135,824 at the end of last year. The latest version. Mastercam X3, is scheduled for release in the third quarter of 2008. This...

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• CNC Software Inc

  - 2008-07-01

  CNC Software Inc. of Tolland, CT, developer of Mastercam software, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Mark and Jack Summers incorporated the company in 1983. "Ours was developed with the machinist and the design engineer in mind," said Mark Summers, president. "I was a machinist, and I will always be a...

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