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IoT, Internal Cylindrical Grinding, Tool-Wear Optimization and 10 More New Ideas for Machine Shops

April 20, 2016
Machine shops need new ideas, and new technologies, to keep them engaged, aware, active, and competitive. Here are 13 ideas we discovered this week to make machine programming tooling, machining, and shop operations more effective and productive.

If you operate a machine shop — or any manufacturing operation with a focus on machining, and all the surrounding process technologies like CAM programming, tool design and selection, quality control, etc. — you face a steady flow of new technology and products, updates and improvements intended to address the large and small, general and arcane details that concern machine operators, programmers and shop owners and managers. Here’s a list of the 13 ideas for setting up, programming, cutting, turning, grinding, tool selection, and so on … that caught our attention this week.