Alphacam 2017 R2 Features Key Automation Capabilities
Vero Software’s Alphacam 2017 R2 software automates key CAD/CAM operations and includes the Automation Manager with enhancements to simplify workflow, including multi-drill control, styles functionality, and further support for additional CAD file formats.
Tool Data Management Software Supports Industry 4.0.
TDM Systems’ TDM 2017 and TDM 2017 Global Line combined software platform for tool data management systems replaces version 4.8. and emphasizes supporting Industry 4.0 by providing data transfer and can also be used in parallel to existing applications.
Mastercam and Kennametal Partner to Provide Tool Automation
CNC Software Inc., developers of Mastercam, has partnered with Kennametal Inc. to provide customers with the ability to import tool assemblies from NOVO directly into Mastercam 2018, allowing Mastercam customers to save time searching and building 3D tool assemblies.
Magnetic Spindle Encoders Have Functionally Safe Axes
Heidenhain Corp.’s ERM 2200 magnetic modular angle encoders have functional safety in mind as the growing EU standard trend is to require functionally safe axes on machines.
Moving Toward a Smart Factory with Manufacturing Analytics
MachineMetrics Inc. has identified a gap in machine monitoring, as manually tracking data can be inefficient to track and can be inaccurate and reactive, but real-time data allows companies to make fast, proactive decisions to bring efficiency to their processes.
Shop Automation in the Front Office
This article speaks to the success one shop had in automating its ERP system using a new software package.
Automation Helps Improve Employee Productivity
Stark Industrial LLC’s first stand-alone robot works within a new turning machine cell that is currently dedicated to the simple machining operation of processing a cast aerospace part that is proprietary and is the further step the shop needed to gain process control.
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Tour Showcases Plant-Wide Connectivity
Mazak’s North American headquarters, located in Florence, Kentucky, has been manufacturing multitasking, five-axis, turning and milling machines since 1974 and was recently reimagined as a Mazak iSMART Factory concept.
Preparing Precision Turning for Industry 4.0
Ready or not, Industry 4.0 is moving forward, and it’s critical for manufacturers to be ready for it. Many machine tool builders and accessory builders are equipping their products with Industry 4.0 compatibility in anticipation of its implementation by customer shops.
Robot Monitoring Provides Safe, Flexible Automation
Working hand-in-hand with customers to further develop robot safety technologies, ABB recently introduced SafeMove2, which provides added capabilities to allow for the creation of more efficient and flexible production scenarios and to integrate safety fieldbus connectivity into the company’s IRC5 robot controller family.