American Machinist Weekly Update - May 15th, 2024
 
 
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American Machinist Weekly Update

 
In The Spotlight
An aerospace forger adopted a machine-monitoring program that offers more than process control: It has improved product set-up across multiple locations, making operations nimbler and freeing engineers to manage other tasks.
Top Stories
Improved demand in March shows some positive indicators but year-over-year and year-to-date results show double-digit gaps, showing manufacturers are reluctant to invest in capital equipment.
Focus on the future of the business by responding to employees’ desire to improve, instilling new capabilities and creating a positive feedback cycle.
Strategy means deciding if the short term is your focus or the long term is your goal. A strong foundation will set you up for long-term success.
Lawmakers frustrated with progress of the fighter jet program’s technology refresh are studying whether to reallocate $1 billion for new aircraft in order to fund availability, performance, and maintenance issues.
Editor's Choice
Zero-point devices large workpieces, for direct integration with pallets and tables; pyramids for increased capacity in five-axis machines; and mounting plates to streamline tombstone set-ups.
JobBOSS2 plus uniPoint advances quality management and enhances customer service for job shops, allowing them to go paperless, eliminating redundant data entry and providing a historical audit trail.
In May, YASKAWA MOTOMAN released a new software development kit (SDK), YMConnect, as an updated way to write programs for communicating with Yaskawa robotics. According to the company, YMConnect is meant to act as a “successor” to the existing MotoCom SDK. In a release, Yaskawa emphasized the new SDK is meant to be user-friendly. The software...