The Multitasking Knowledge Center at imts.com/spark covers innovations across a range of multipurpose machining center platforms, including Swiss-type lathes.
Various Gardner Business Media brands, including Production Machining magazine, are helping AMT — The Association for Manufacturing Technology provide informative and helpful content to its International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) spark digital experience. One aspect of this is the various Knowledge Centers on the IMTS spark site (imts.com/spark), which take deep dives into specific manufacturing technology and processes by way of articles, graphics and video.
I developed the Multitasking Knowledge Center, which highlights trends related to Swiss-type lathes, turn-mills, high-production machining equipment (rotary transfer machines, single- and multi-spindles and so on) and additive manufacturing integrated into CNC machining center platforms. In fact, the article related to metal additive manufacturing capability as it is being added to machine tools gives you an idea as to what the subcategories within each of those Knowledge Centers look like.
Here are a few other Knowledge Centers you might find interesting:
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Photo Credit: Mazak Corp.Additive Manufacturing for Production. This is a technology that remains murky among some in the CNC machining community with whom I’ve interacted in which machining is their core business. Many are familiarizing themselves with the process of building metal or polymer parts layer by layer. Some are buying inexpensive polymer 3D printers to produce prototype parts, jigs or fixtures to use in the shop. But, what about AM for part production? Has this technology reached the point whereby it no longer simply offers the “promise” of being a viable, alternate production method compared to (or combined with) CNC machining, especially for metal parts? This Knowledge Center makes that case, although the definition of “high volume” for shops dropping brass valves off of multi-spindles at a rate of a few seconds at a time differs from “high volume” in the metal additive manufacturing world.
In addition to Knowledge Centers covering specific equipment and technology, there are others that cover topics such as sister publication Modern Machine Shop’s latest Top Shops benchmarking survey findings as well as automotive industry trends.
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