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Precision machining paired with automation and robotics can offer unprecedented levels of speed, accuracy and quality control for manufacturing processes. Automation can also help companies advance to more lights-out production as well develop a continuous-improvement mindset that can enable increased efficiencies in numerous areas.

Every month, we’re putting together a Technology Showcase, highlighting some of the product information that PM receives from supplier companies. For February, we focused on automation and robots, including a machine tending robotic cell featuring portability, easy setup and programming; air rest buttons using pneumatic position control to properly detect workpiece loading in a fixture; an automatic door opening solution for robotic machine tending that can be fitted to any CNC machine in under an hour; and more as described below.

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Read PM’s February Technology Review.

Click on each link below to read the full product post:

SW North America, CNC Machines and Automation
Techspex
SolidCAM
World Machine Tool Survey
Kyocera
SPC Innovations, In-machine gaging and attachments
manufacturer of machine tools
Star swiss-type automatic lathes

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