Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme (Bobingen, Germany) was founded in 1991 by Rudolf M. Hufschmied and his son, Ralph, as an industrial agency for technology products in the field of machining. Initially, ...

The ability to produce quality products hinges on four key competencies: modeling of process form and precision levels, design tolerancing of parts and products, selecting production processes that ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He’s been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. This year, we’re taking a close look at the use of ...

Fiber-reinforced composite wing components, commonly stacked with aluminum and titanium, can challenge the machining process, including cutting tool security and final surface quality. Source (All ...

The world of the product designer is all about designing and developing goods or products. Meanwhile, the machinist’s world is all about converting designs into real parts, based on the available ...

Manufacturing is getting a lot more attention in the news recently. While globalization has pushed the availability of goods around the world and lowered their cost in significant ways over these past ...

Smart manufacturing is a term used to describe a connected and seamless flow of intellectual property (IP) to all teams involved, from design to manufacturing. It connects designs and data in a ...

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, has had a major impact on the contemporary design and production process. First developed in 1988 with the aim of allowing for rapid prototyping, ...

Integrated processes are those that combine more than one specific unit process into a single piece of equipment or into a group of work stations that are operated under unified control (NRC, 1992).