Improving Manufacturing Cycle Times Machining center manufacturers are all looking for and touting the ability to reduce part cycle times by offering faster and more efficient machines. That is what the job shop and part production customers of these products demand, because their end-product customers are driving a purchasing philosophy of lower costs per part. …

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Intelligent Manufacturing – Part 2: Manu-Services–Something New or Something You’ve Always Known? We’ve taken a hard look at every aspect of manufacturing, including the items that are part and parcel of modern manufacturing and how those services have changed. The new label, Manu-services, however is something with which many of us are not familiar. It’s …

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Intelligent Manufacturing – Part I: Manu-Services, a new production paradigm? In our previous reports and articles, we’ve examined a lot about the way in which we create goods, ship them, and even how we’re leveraging social media to change the way that the manufacturing industry is viewed. We’ve taken a look at technological progress, as …

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Intelligent Manufacturing – Leveraging Social Media to Build Your Brand and Even to Rescue It Today there isn’t a major brand out there that isn’t leveraging the power of social media and trying to build their brand in that way. Tinu Cherian Abraham, described his own experience with major manufacturers and their methods of influencing …

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Intelligent Manufacturing: 3-D Printing The Factories of the Future-Already Operational and Making a Difference There isn’t a technology out there that has had more buildup and more hype than 3d printing. The reality is that quite likely three dimensional printing is all that the hype says it is and quite likely more. 3 Dimensional printing …

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