4 Steps to a Cobot Culture: How Thyssenkrupp Bilstein Has Answered Staffing Shortages With Economical Automation
Safe, economical automation using collaborative robots can transform a manufacturing facility and overcome staffing shortfalls, but it takes additional investment and a systemized approach to automation in order to realize this change.
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Arch Cutting Tools Acquires Custom Carbide Cutter Inc.
The acquisition adds Custom Carbide Cutter’s experience with specialty carbide micro tools and high-performance burrs to Arch Cutting Tool’s portfolio.
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Ford Partners With Rockwell Automation to Advance EV Program
The companies will jointly collaborate on assembly tooling designs and architectures that will increase speed to market.
SolidCAM Wants to Help Machine Shops Get into Additive Manufacturing
SolidCAM's partnership with Desktop Metal is aimed at making additive manufacturing more accessible to job shops and other manufacturers.
New Laser Technology in Non-contact Optical Dimensional Metrology
LADAR technology from API sets a new standard in non-contact optical dimensional metrology for manufacturing industries.
Electric Vehicles Spark Bright Ideas
Ford alone expects to have production capacity for 600,000 electric vehicles by late 2023, and more than 2 million by the end of 2026. The effects on manufacturing are BIG.
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How is an EV Battery Made?
Everyone talks about batteries, but how are they produced? Here’s the long and short (circuit) of it.
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Siemens and Mahle Partner to Develop Wireless EV Charging
Mahle will contribute its experience as an automotive supplier and Siemens will use its expertise in the field of charging infrastructure to develop wireless charging stations for electric vehicles.
Sandvik Coromant on Acquisitions: Solutions Entail More Than the Tool
A Q&A with global president Helen Blomqvist explores the cutting tool maker’s acquisition of CAM software companies and how this connects to, among other things, electric vehicles.
How This Motorcycle Startup Will Succeed With U.S. Production
Land Moto is the founder’s second motorcycle company. The first time, production was in China. This time, several factors help advance the effort to produce a low-cost bike in the United States. One of these is the way electrification opens doors to suppliers.
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