| December 13, 2023 - Volume 17 Issue 12 |
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Happy Holidays!
The staff at Modern Applications News would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year!
With another tumultuous year now behind us, we hope you have the chance to take a break from your daily craziness and spend some quality time with your family and loved ones over the holidays.
As we reflect on the manufacturing industry in 2023, we are apprehensive and encouraged at the same time. We are hopeful that the machine tool/metalworking industry will play a vital role in an effort to revive our economy. AI, Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, and Robotic Automation will surely increase their roles in the industry.
Here at Nelson Publishing, our eNewsletters -- Modern Applications News (MAN), Tooling & Production (T&P), and the Manufacturing Center Product Spotlight -- have once again experienced a successful year. For that, we are grateful.
In what has become our annual tradition, we have put together our "Best of 2023" issue. We have compiled two lists -- the Top 10 Most Read Feature Articles and Top 10 Most Read Product Spotlights, as judged by our readers. We hope you enjoy these stories and catch some helpful information you may have missed the first time around. We want to thank all of our subscribers and advertisers for your loyalty to our publications and we'd like to wish you a successful and prosperous 2023! |
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"Top 10 Most Read Feature Articles" |
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Still Stuck Hand Deburring? (Watch Video)
If you are still deburring parts by hand at your shop, there's a good chance you're dealing with poor quality, inconsistency, and a high scrap rate. Consistent quality and steady volume are vital concerns and for hand deburring to achieve desirable results, considerable training must be provided. Maintaining a reliable pool of hand deburring workers is tough. But rather than always training someone new, the owner of James Engineering, a family-owned deburring and chamfering machine shop in Broomfield, CO, offers a better solution.
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9 Ways CPQ Software is Reshaping the Manufacturing Industry (Watch Video)
The manufacturing industry is facing a number of challenges including rising costs, global competition, increasingly complex products, and high customer expectations. Additionally, a depleted labor market is making it difficult for many manufacturers to keep up with the rapid changes in the industry. Here are 9 ways Epicor's advanced CPQ software is helping to overcome these obstacles, while also driving disruption and innovation.
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In-House Desktop Waterjet Cuts Lead Times and Reduces Supply Chain Delays (Watch Video)
Nisan Lerea is the Co-Founder and CEO of WAZER and an inventor of the world's first desktop waterjet cutter. The mechanical engineer spent many hours in a machine shop, where he grew tired of facing the need to outsource and the undesirable lead times that came with it. So, as he writes for MAN, he invented a machine that many shops could use to overcome their reliance on outsourcing and get ahead of the disrupted supply chain.
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Making Smaller Better: Solving the Challenges of Small Part Machining (Watch Video)
While manufacturers have been dealing with the challenges of machining small parts for years, it's especially trending right now in light of the electronics chip shortage and increase in government funding for semiconductor manufacturing. James Thorpe, Global Product Manager at Sandvik Coromant, explores micro drilling solutions that enable manufacturers to maintain the highest levels of quality control and remain competitive while also reducing excess scrap or downtime.
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On-Demand 3D Printing Reduced Time to Market by an Entire Year
Desktop Metal's Bound Metal Deposition (BMD) technology was key to easy 3D printing adoption for Curio's food processing equipment. By incorporating 3D printed designs in high-quality 316L stainless steel, Curio machines are now increasing the quality and yield of the seafood processed by the company.
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"Top 10 Most Read Product Spotlights" |
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