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Presentations at Innovation Days elaborated on the company's support of the digital factory with open connectivity. In the overall picture of the “Path of Digitization,” DMG MORI offers its customers the opportunity either to implement comprehensive, customized end-to-end solutions with the CELOS Ecosystem’s digital products and software systems, or to gradually go from strength to strength and transform their companies into digital factories. The ultimate goal is high transparency, effective processes, maximum availability and the best possible production reliability.
The Innovation Days event displayed many forms of automation, which DMG MORI describes as a crucial component of the digital factory. One of the machines highlighted at the event as a U.S. premiere--the ALX 2000—was shown with the compact GX 7 gantry loader, which can handle workpieces as long as 150 mm and can be combined with various other automatic peripheral equipment such as parts cleaning, measuring and marking.
The other U.S. premiere, the DMP 70 features a footprint of barely more than 46 square feet and is designed for applications in medical technology and job shops, as well as the aerospace sector and other demanding industries. Travel paths of 27 x 16 x 15 inches and the optional integrated swivel/rotary table enable 5-axis simultaneous machining of a range of components. The machine was shown at Innovation Days with the workpiece handling WH 3 Cell, which can be connected from the right, left, or front of the machine.
Multiple additive solutions were on display during Innovation Days. The Lasertec 4300 3D Hybrid, designed for large parts, offers additive manufacturing, turning and milling in a single machine. The Lasertec 65 3D powder nozzle machine is a dedicated additive solution for prototypes, small-series, repair and coating. The Lasertec 65 3D Hybrid combines additive with full 5-axis milling.
Dr. Mori addressed the press with discussions surrounding workforce development, the company’s advances in additive manufacturing technology, and how the company is addressing the rapidly changing automotive market.
From May 13-16, DMG MORI held its Chicago Innovation Days 2019 event in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, demonstrating the company’s latest trends and innovations in machine tool manufacturing. The event highlighted integrated digitization for planning, preparation, production, monitoring and service; automation solutions for competitive manufacturing; and additive manufacturing with four process chains in the powder bed and with the powder nozzle. The company also introduced two machines to the U.S. market.
The trend towards industrial digitization is fundamentally altering the framework of metal cutting production technology. DMG MORI has offered digitization solutions on its machines since 2013 with the CELOS app-based control and user interface. At the same time, the company has been expanding the range of solutions it offers to create an open ecosystem for the digital factory. DMG MORI is increasing its portfolio of CELOS services with intelligent software solutions and connective hardware. Additionally, the company has established the CELOS Club, which offers customers solutions on their path to Industry 4.0 and IIoT.
Read MoreBy: Lori Beckman 5/28/2019
50 Illinois High School Students Awarded at TMA’s Precision Machining Competition
Held at Mazak Corp.’s Midwest Technology Center in Schaumburg, Illinois, the competition recognized 50 students for their excellent work in machining projects such as CAD design, sine bar, grinding vice, CNC turning, CNC milling, CNC CAM, and CNC programming.
Dr. Casey Sacks, deputy assistant secretary for community colleges, was in attendance, showing her support of the competition and encouraging students to pursue a career in manufacturing.
Almost 300 students competed. Out of the 50 winners, seven received perfect scores.
Company representatives were in attendance as students received their awards and explored possible job opportunities with area manufacturers.
Almost 300 students from 22 northern Illinois high schools competed May 9 in the Technology & Manufacturing Association’s (TMA) 28th annual Precision Machining Competition, a contest designed to encourage students to pursue high paying careers in advanced manufacturing.
Held at Mazak Corp.’s Midwest Technology Center in Schaumburg, Illinois, the competition recognized 50 students for their excellent work in machining projects such as CAD design, sine bar, grinding vice, CNC turning, CNC milling, CNC CAM, and CNC programming. Out of the 50 winners, seven students received perfect scores and five were women.
Read More5/24/2019
PMPA Members are Family
As the new director of technical programs and member engagement at PMPA, I was new to the industry and wasn’t sure what to expect. I found out quickly that PMPA members are not members of a club; they are members of a family. I am in awe of the close-knit, knowledge-sharing, better together group that is the PMPA membership. It’s as if everyone intuitively knows that a stronger industry can only benefit individual companies. And the knowledge is shared with joy!
Miles Free, PMPA’s interim director, hired me, and I was “airdropped” into the execution phase of the 2019 National Technical Conference held at the end of March (I know, it seems impossible). What happened, you ask? Miles took time every day to teach me about the industry and the culture. John Detterbeck, president at Lester Detterbeck Enterprises Ltd., flew in from Florida to help me understand the conference. Tony Gemignani, vice president at R.F. Mau Co. and chair of the Technical Programs Committee, welcomed me. They both did everything in their power to help. Not one objection. Not one unkind word. Just enthusiasm and a willingness to participate. Everyone came together to do what needed to be done, just like a family.
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In the late 1950s, John Clifton Gibbons was a machine repairman for the Ford Motor Co. until he got the news he had been laid off. Although he only had a fifth-grade education, Mr. Gibbons was well respected in the area for his knowledge in automotive repair and maintenance work. Mr. Gibbons had been laid off for more than two years when he received a telegram from Ford asking if he would return to his previous position. A few weeks prior, he had an opportunity to purchase three Traubs, one chip spinner and a Toledo scale at the encouragement of a friend who wanted him to run some parts for him. To do this, it cost $4,000 of his $4,018 life savings and meant he would have to leave Ford for good. After receiving some encouragement from his wife, Blanche, he turned down the offer from Ford and pursued an opportunity to make directional levers for Chevy, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick. So, in 1959, Mr. Gibbons and his 17-year-old son, Jerry, started JC Gibbons Manufacturing’s 60-year legacy by making these levers in the back of someone else’s shop. The next year, the two moved the company into a modest, 450-square-foot building in Detroit, Michigan, where they hired their first employee, purchased more machines and manufactured 50,000 carburetor jets a month.
Several decades and millions of manufactured parts later, JC Gibbons moved to its current headquarters, a 22,000-square-foot facility in Livonia, Michigan, with more than 30 screw machines and 10 CNC lathes and CNC vertical mills, all of which are capable of working with countless machining materials and volumes. Today, JC Gibbons Manufacturing is run by Jerry Gibbons’ sons, Jeff and Dan Gibbons, and has become a leading manufacturer of precision CNC machining services and screw machine products for a number of different industries, including automotive, HVAC, specialty and custom fasteners, defense, electronics and musical instruments.
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