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"Opportunities and Challenges with Machining Automation"

Modern Machine Shop's Custom Content Collection: Automation

This collection includes Modern Machine Shop’s most popular recent articles on automation, describing not only the benefits shops are realizing or hope to realize through automation, but also the types of challenges they’ve faced and overcome on the way to realizing more automated machining:

• Worst to First: Robotic automation is transforming a job that was perhaps a machine operator’s least-favorite work assignment into one that is not a heavy lift.
• Automation Increases Production, Employee Retention: Employee fatigue at SEW Eurodrive was limiting productivity when production demands increased. Automation from Makino helped to increase machine utilization as well as worker satisfaction.
• When the Trickiest Part Is Holding the Part: Finding a way to fixture contoured marine propellers proved to be this shop’s biggest challenge in developing an effective automated machining cell.
• Getting to 168: Precision Tool Technologies found capacity for diversification not by adding machines, people or space, but by freeing up time. Running unattended—running so it can machine through all 168 hours in the week—has enabled this shop to use hours when staff is present to deliver work that lands outside its established specialty. To achieve unattended machining, some of the biggest challenges have related to basic details such as chips and coolant.

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