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AdvancedManufacturing.org
| Month Year
January 2017
CONTENTS JANUARY 2017 VOL. 158, NO. 1 c FEATURES
49 / CUTTING TOOLS FOR USE WITH NEW ALUMINUM-COMPOUND MATERIALS
New materials for workpieces call for innovative cutting tools, tool coatings and machining strategies.
59 / CHIPPING AWAY ON THE FACTORY FLOOR
Managing chips and fl uid is vital to maximizing machine tool output.
65 / THERE IS NO HOLD ON INNOVATION IN WORKHOLDING
Companies are getting creative in order to make machining easier, faster and more precise.
74 / ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEPENDS ON CONTROLS, DESIGN
Don’t settle for less than the most up-to-date technology.
SHOP SOLUTIONS
41 / SHOP SHRINKS SETUP TIMES FROM DAYS TO MINUTES
Combining effective shop-fl oor strategies with advanced machine tool technology has resulted in dramatic setup reductions for Land & Sea Inc., dramatically shrinking setup times from days to minutes.
45 / 3D LASER GAGING ENSURES FLAWLESS ENGINE FASTENERS
In an automobile engine, seven types of screws out of approximately 70 are consid- ered critical to achieving the engine’s specifi c design performance, despite high vibration and heat.
82 / GENESIS SYSTEMS TEAMS WITH VIRTUAL REALITY
Immersive visualization in the manufac- turing world has proven its value time and time again during design reviews, proof-of-concept validation, and customer engagement, decreasing time to market and minimizing risk.
ON THE WEB
A NEW APPROACH TO PLM Contributing editor, Bruce Morey has a dis- cussion with the CEO of Aras, Peter Schroer. Aras offers a different kind of PLM in a radically different kind of business model. More at
http://advancedmanufacturing.org/ open-source-plm/
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Cover: Seco Tools specifi es its Double Octomill, with 16 cutting edges, to machine high- silicon aluminum in automotive applications. The addition of silicon dramatically increases the strength, hardness, stiffness and longevity of aluminum, but also makes it very abrasive. The higher the siicon content, the more abrasive the alloy. Photo courtesy of Seco Tools.
DEPARTMENTS
4 / UPFRONT 30 Under 30: Fun and Fundamental
6 / CONNECT & ENGAGE
8 / ADVANCED MANUFACTURING NOW
t Cutting-Edge Tool Geometries Push Machines to their Limits
t The Digitization of Modern Manufacturing t The Importance of Critical Thinking in MBSE
15 / SME SPEAKS
2017: Inspired, Educated and Prosperous
19 / NEWSDESK FABTECH Creates Buzz About a Better 2017
24 / SOFTWARE UPDATE
Building an Infrastructure for Smart Manufacturing and the IIOT
33 / TECH FRONT Smashing Silver Microcubes Toughens Up Materials
85 / TECH SPECS 108 / HOUSTEX 2017 PREVIEW 116 / CLASSIFIEDS 117 / AD INDEX
118 / WORKFORCE PIPELINE
Solving the Workforce Struggle
120 / VIEWPOINTS Technology: The Job-Shop Differentiation
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