How to resolve AdBlock issue? Automated sheet metal loading
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- June 24, 2015
Prima Power's 15 Shelf Compact Loading System (Compact Tower): Material flow can be arranged in flexible ways to transfer parts directly to automatic bending, balance the different time requirements of bending and punching/shearing, to exit material from the system and to bring new material into it.The flexible and versatile buffering function ensures that optimum operation in terms of manufacturing cost and throughput time can always be chosen,whatever the manufacturing task at hand.
Quebec’s Les Ateliers de fabrication du Saguenay has received a $200,000 repayable contribution from the Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED) to help the company increase both its productivity and production capacity.
by Noelle Stapinsky
Canadian manufacturers need to diversify to answer the need for more skilled workers
References to Henry Ford, Greek philosopher Socrates’s Socratic method of teaching and kinesthetic learning are not likely what you expect to hear when it comes to skills training, but that’s the kind of language Don Graham, education and technical services manager at Seco Tools, uses when describing teaching students in the metalworking industry.
by Kip Hanson
BC fab shop sees big productivity gains after investing in plate and beam processing equipment
The Problem: Outsourcing work due to capacity problems with older equipment
The Solution: A high definition plasma table and automated beam processing line
Walter Surface Technologies has announced the grand prize winner of its “Test Drive Flexsteel. Take Home a Mustang GT” contest.
by Joe Duffy with Pete Blews
If you’re responsible for keeping the plasma cutting systems and the production line running smoothly, the tips below may solve a problem and keep your day stress-free.
CBN (Cubic Boron Nitride) tools are ideal for machining through-hardened components.
The problem
Inflexible and inefficient fabricating process with turret punch press producing excessive waste sheet metal.
The solution
A flexible 2D laser cutting system to cut a wider range of parts and reduce scrap.
by John Ripka
If your punch press is not punching parts 100% of the time, it’s not making money
The perfect combination: ER collet chuck and quick change system in one toolholder.
Hexagon's much-anticipated update to tube design, analysis and production platform TubeShaper delivers important new functionalities to customers in tube and pipe manufacturing.
Manufacturers cite skilled workforce shortage, cost control and investing in new equipment as top challenges for the year ahead
