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Master-Edge Hybrid

Suburban Tool, Inc. has announced the addition of an Aluminum Cast Iron Hybrid Straight Edge to complement its existing line of Aluminum and Cast Iron Straight Edges. "The all-new Aluminum Straight Edges offer the same high precision and high quality as Suburban's Cast Iron Straight Edge at approximately 50% of the weight, making it ideal for applications where the weight of a cast iron product might be prohibited," said a company spokesperson. These new Aluminum Straight Edges are comprised of a 319 cast aluminum body with G2...

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3D Printing Software Integrates 3D Manufacturing Format

CT CoreTechnologie has joined the 3MF industry consortium and optimized the latest version of its 3D printing software 4D_Additive for the 3D manufacturing format, 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF). The integration of the 3MF open source file format into the 4D_Additive software is another step to strengthen the increasingly important industry standard for additive manufacturing (AM). The 4D_Additive software is a modern technological bridge between CAD and AM that supports all major 3D printing methods. The tool reads and writes also the moder...

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AEC Partners with Heroes MAKE America

The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) has become an Association Sponsor Partner of the Manufacturing Institute's Heroes MAKE America program, which builds connections between the military community and manufacturing community. The program strives to integrate Heroes participants and other great talent from the military community into their workforce. AEC will use the two-year partnership with Heroes MAKE America to help its participating U.S. members with manufacturing operations across the country to hire skilled and qualified personnel to ...

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Industry-Recognized Standards for Various Job Roles Available from NIMS

NIMS has announced a suite of Smart Standards for various job roles in various sectors of manufacturing. These standards are a starting point for any employer and educator developing or evaluating training in these disciplines. Specifically, the new standards are categorized under the disciplines of Industry 4.0, Industrial Maintenance Technology, Dimensional Measurements, Additive Manufacturing, Machining and Metalforming. Smart Standards are part of NIMS Smart Training Solutions, an innovative framework for modernizing training to keep up...

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Dashboard Inventory Actions Help Resolve Discrepancies

Gather AI's drone-powered inventory monitoring solution is designed to help warehouse operators decrease inventory costs, improve productivity and boost revenue. With Gather AI's solution, inventory drones can fly through a warehouse, photograph pallet locations, then compare the bar codes, text and images with the warehouse management system (WMS). The Gather AI dashboard helps warehouse teams find and fix inventory exceptions. They can review a list of exceptions on their dashboard, scroll through each one, view the picture of the pal...

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Noncontact Measuring and Inspecting of Endless Stamped Products

Kistler's KVC 621-SE stamped part inspection cell equipped with digital camera technology is a universal and autonomously operating vision measuring system for 100% inspection of endlessly produced components. Predominantly, this system finds its application in production lines such as stamping, etching, laminating or injection molding lines and in rewinding processes. Depending on the application, the modular design of the inspection cell allows the use of digital camera technology in black and white or color versions with a wide range of ...

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