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February 7, 2024

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February 7, 2024

Bold Laser Cutting Expansion for Michigan Job Shop

To attract and retain OEM and Tier-One business, Laser Specialists boosted its fiber laser cutting capabilities and roster, leading to huge productivity improvements.

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ATI Introduces Manual, Robot-EOA Tool Changer

ATI Industrial Automation, Apex, NC, has introduced the MC-50 manual tool changer, designed to optimize performance, reliability and quality during manual exchange of robotic and cobotic end-of-arm (EOA) tooling.

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Press Brake Efficiency

…is top of mind at Richards-Wilcox, Inc., a 143-yr.-old OEM manufacturer facing tight delivery windows in the face of rapidly shrinking lot sizes. To quicken changeovers in its press brake department, the firm welcomes a new bending cell equipped with automatic tool change; OEE is through the roof.

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Gas-Reduction Nozzle Technology for Mitsubishi GX-F Fiber Lasers

Now available through MC Machinery is Mitsubishi Laser’s new gas- and burr-reduction technology, AGR-Mix, for the Mitsubishi GX-F Advanced series of artificial-intelligence-enabled fiber lasers. AGR-Mix nozzle technology, which reportedly improves cut quality while reducing gas consumption when cutting mild steel, does not require expensive external blending tanks or high-pressure oxygen.

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AMSOIL Industrial Extends Oil Life for Automotive Plant

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Guide for Using Digital Work Instructions

LightGuide, which provides visual guides to standardize manufacturing processes, has made available its Ultimate Guide to Digital Work Instructions. The guide’s goal: ensuring that manufacturers’ work instructions are built for today’s challenges, and optimizing production flow while ensuring quality.

All-Purpose Bandsaw Blades Cut a Variety of Steels

Qsaw 601 M42 all-purpose bandsaw blades, available through SawBlade.com, cut different sizes and shapes of high-carbon steel, stainless steel, alloy steel, structural steel and more with ease, according to company officials.

Compact Resistance-Welding Workstations

Amada Weld Tech, Inc., a manufacturer of welding, marking, cutting, sealing and bonding technology, announces the WR series of resistance-welding workstations. The workstations combine a power supply, transformer, weld head, process monitor and workbench into a compact workstation designed to simplify operator welding tasks while maximizing quality and reliability.

Manufacturing Outlook for 2024

With headwinds in place—high capital costs, labor shortages, and the lingering concerns of a recession, to name a few—metal formers and fabricators kick their strategic-planning efforts into high gear. They cannot afford to fall behind in their continuous-improvement activities, and in their investments in technology and innovation. Here’s what’s in store for several critical end-use markets.