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Weekly Update 10/11/2007

Oct. 12, 2007
October 11, 2007 NEWSLETTER SPONSOR Manuvis MANUVIS is a leader in delivering innovative, real-time enterprise manufacturing intelligence, enabling manufacturing companies to lower operating costs, improve customer service, and increase ...
October 11, 2007
NEWSLETTER SPONSOR Manuvis
MANUVIS is a leader in delivering innovative, real-time enterprise manufacturing intelligence, enabling manufacturing companies to lower operating costs, improve customer service, and increase profitability. Our FactoryMRI® solution enables manufacturers to become more proactive, resolving problems before they impact customers. FactoryMRI provides real-time visibility for each machine, including human assets, and displays the results as powerful charts, reports, or data exports. FactoryMRI is completely browser-based, allowing any device that has a browser to securely access the information via the company network. Learn more about the savings our customers have realized!
Medical News
A Healthy Switch Thinking of taking on some medical work? Get some free advice from a shop that successfully migrated into that growing market. Also, find out what type of machine tool is practically a must for the medical market.Grinder Cuts Cycle Times To the Bone Grinding machines have the potential to reduce lead times from weeks to days compared to milling operations to produce medical bone rasps. Read how one shop used grinding to cut its production time.Precious Machining While the increasing demand for platinum in the medical field is saving lives, the same increase in demand for the precious metal spells machining headaches for medical-device-component manufactures. EDM is the cure.Borescopes Provide Insight To Burr Problem Need to inspect medical parts that often have burrs and other defects that go undetected by the naked eye? A special borescope system could make the job a whole lot easier.
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