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| Automation, Industry 4.0 Driving Advanced Material Handling Solutions |
| Material handling approaches and technologies have evolved to deliver increased efficiency and better balance sheets. Automation and Industry 4.0 are driving advances, and here’s a look at just how in these unique leading-edge examples that are making headway on shop floors, as well as some sound advice on extending the life of material handling equipment. |
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| Sponsored |
| All-Electric Press Brake |
| BLM GROUP’s E-series ProBend fully-electric press brake handles simple to complex sheet metal bending. Available in 44 – 276 ton models and capable of handling bending lengths of 4’ – 17’. Touchscreen console enables graphical or direct mode programming on the machine or offline. With back gauge options, clamping systems, and workpiece supports. |
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| Flexible System for Punching, Shearing, Bending and Buffering |
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| From Prima Power is the PSBB, a flexible manufacturing system—PSBB stands for punching, shearing, buffering and bending. PSBB integrates servo-electric punching and shearing, servo-electric bending and automatic material flow, all backed by sophisticated software that delivers full management and monitoring to allow for unattended operation. |
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| Sponsored |
| 24 kW from TRUMPF—Do More! |
| The
TruLaser 5030 fiber from TRUMPF is now available with 24kW of cutting
power, allowing you to cut up to 3 times faster- with up to 80% more
sheets cut per hour. Contact us today to see how 24kW can power your
business! |
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| OJT Press Brake Training Elevated from Thumb Twiddler to Rule of Thumb |
| In
looking to its internal DNA of workers to fill job openings in a
growing press brake department, metal fabricator the Metalworking Group
turned to the National Institute of Metalworking Skills to help develop
and implement a new pay-for-skills program based on three specific
roles. |
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| Pneumatic Tool Separates Small Laser-Cut Parts |
| Trumpf has launched the TruTool PS 100, a new part-separation tool designed to remove small parts quickly and easily from the scrap skeletons of laser-cut sheets. Once small parts are cut out on flat-sheet laser cutting machines, they remain connected to the sheet’s scrap skeleton by small cross-beams, also called tabs or joints. To release the components, operators often use a hammer or similar tool. This method can be time-consuming, tedious, and risks operator injury as well as part damage. |
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| Hypertherm Associates eBook Addresses Standardization in Robot-Programming Languages |
| Hypertherm
Associates has released an educational ebook under its Robotmaster
brand of offline programming software that details achieving
standardization of languages in robot programming. Achieving Standardization in Robot Programming
features two technologies to address the market demands for a single
universal robot-programming solution, including Robotmaster. |
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| Touchscreen Automation for Sawing |
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| New from TigerStop, SawGear Touch, feature-packed automated-stop software with touchscreen control that reportedly adapts easily to existing saws to cut metal, wood and plastics. SawGear Touch, allowing users to dispense with tape measures and manual fences while producing more parts with greater accuracy, according to company officials, includes Downloading, Optimization and Crown+MiterPro software. And, SawGear Touch, with repeatable accuracy of ±0.008 in., can be adapted to upcut, cold, chop and other saws. |
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| PMA Services Inc |
6363 Oak Tree Blvd. | Independence, OH 44131-2500 | USA
216-901-8800 |
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