The challenges facing CNC machine shops continue to escalate, as customers demand better quality, tighter tolerances, and faster delivery. Meanwhile competition from down the street and around the globe keeps the pressure on to hold down customer costs, which impacts your profits. The solution, of course, is to optimize machine tool performance while increasing worker productivity.
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CNC machine shops can reduce costs and improve performance by applying a concept called Value Stream Mapping. Typically used by companies to implement Lean Manufacturing, Value Stream Mapping is a way to identify and analyze all of the activities involved in delivering a product or service to the customer. For CNC machine shops this could be anything from a single part to a complete product.
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As with all hard-to-machine materials, nickel-based alloys present some significant challenges that can impact productivity, so it’s important to know what you’re up against.
Read MoreAn exciting new TV reality series promoting American manufacturing premiers on Friday, October 24 on the MAV TV channel. Starring former heavyweight boxer Titan Gilroy, Titan – American Built is set in a California CNC machine shop populated exclusively with Haas CNC machine tools.
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CNC machine shops have a lot invested in their employees. Hiring, training, and developing a competent staff requires a great deal of time and effort. That’s why it’s so important to hang on to your best employees. Finding good people is such a challenge, in fact, that your highest performing machine operators, production supervisors and other key employees are prime targets for other manufacturers that need to add staff.
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Gardner Research conducts annual surveys of CNC machine shops to help identify common traits that breed greater success. Naturally, much of their findings involve a focus on advanced machining technologies as a way to improve productivity and profitability. However as important as it is to have the right equipment and applications expertise, there are a number of less obvious factors that higher performing CNC machine shops have in common. Here are 5 important ones:
High-performance machining requires CNC machine tools that are not only fast but also accurate and reliable. Now you can get all of this plus special pricing and a 100% coverage, 2-year warranty by visiting your Torrance Haas HFO or visiting the Haas booth at IMTS 2014.
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Once again middle school, high school and college students, their parents, and educators are invited to experience the real world of manufacturing technology at IMTS 2014. As future manufacturing professionals, these students can meet and learn from today’s practitioners and discover how modern manufacturing is not like their grandparent’s machine shop.
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IMTS 2014 is sure to be an exciting show for the expected 100,000 visitors from 112 countries coming to Chicago September 8 -13, 2014 to see more than 1900 exhibitors, including Haas Automation.
As CNC machine tool technology has evolved it’s possible to do more operations better, faster and at lower cost than ever before. These advances also mean that there are more machine components and accessories to monitor and maintain. Often overlooked are rotary or trunnion tables that reduce setup and cycle times and, in many applications, enable the machining of complex parts.
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