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Manufacturing in Progress TECHNOLOGY AT WORK MANUFACTURING IN PROGRESS A COMPENDIUM OF REPORTS FROM: Copyright © 2018 by Informa All rights reserved AMERICAN MACHINIST LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY AT WORK TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editor’s Note .........................................................................................02 The Expert Speaks ...............................................................................03 The All-of-the Above Choice ...............................................................07 Speed, Precision, and Flexibility Drive Hot Forming Design ............10 Digital Twinning for Machine Maintenance ........................................12 Fixed on Five-Axis ................................................................................14 Expansion Underway ............................................................................17 The Swift, Sudden Evolution of End-Arm Tooling .............................22 1 ☞ REGISTER: www.americanmachinist.com AMERICAN MACHINIST LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY AT WORK EDITOR’S NOTE n some businesses, work is approached vision of the future. They see what is possible. as a problem. Doctors and nurses work to They know what is pending and can evaluate locate the source of a problem and take what is potential. Isteps to correct the error and ease the dis- When manufacturers approach new technol- tress. In other businesses, work is approached ogy it is with active understanding that it will like a responsibility, as in the way farmer man- be applied to work — their own work, or some age their fields and orchards, or ranchers tend work that they are prepared to start. They are their stock. Their task is to wait for nature to not looking for the unknown or fixing what is ROBERT BROOKS take its course, preparing for a future develop- not right. They are applying what is ready to Editor AMERICAN MACHINIST ment and working or sacrificing to bring about achieve what is necessary. Magazine the expected results. Manufacturers are thriving now — as we We approach our work like explorers, seek- can document by the ongoing rise in new ma- ing out things that are new or unknown, aim- chine tool orders and the continuing growth ing to bring these novelties to the attention of in demand for cutting tools, all pointing to the the wider world. sustained rise in industrial demand and manu- But the business of manufacturing is differ- facturing activity. Also proving the strength of ent than all of these. Manufacturers are cre- manufacturing now is the extraordinary success ators. They take a concept or a “design” and of IMTS 2018, recently concluded with near- create that idea in physical form. They create ly 130,000 attendees, a record for the biannual the means for that creation too, by defining the event. There they saw displayed the forward tra- program that will result in the physical result. jectory of manufacturing technology — its ma- So, it is wrong to emphasize future or poten- chines, its controls, its peripheral systems, its tial developments in manufacturing, because programs and its networkable solutions. It was manufacturing is an activity that takes place all there, available, ready for work. only in the present. The manufacturing that is happening now is at But do not be misled. Manufacturers are cre- the peak of its long progress, and it will continue ators because they have a lively and accessible to be that as long as manufacturers are at work. 2 ☞ REGISTER: www.americanmachinist.com TECHNOLOGY AT WORK AMERICAN MACHINIST LIBRARY THE EXPERT SPEAKS perators of machine tools pause, however briefly, every time the phrase “manufacturing technology” is used to describe their work, Otheir industry, their corner of the world. Manufacturing technolo- gy is the label now applied to the industrial sector that cuts, turns, grinds, finishes and does so much more to produce critical component parts. It’s a label that’s still a little ill-fitting, but they’re growing into it. This is not to say that machine-tool operators, or machine-shop manag- ers, or owners, spend a lot of time considering the linguistic implications of the work they do or the tasks they perform: they work. They approach their technology as tools – which, in very practical way they are. But, in selecting and buying new tools, the technology of manufacturing works its ▲ way into their understanding. “Manufacturing technology” may be growing on them as a label, but they are giving the term all the validity it deserves Douglas K. Woods by the ways they apply these emerging processes and functions. offers perspective and None of this is a secret. It was all out in the open for 120,000 or so people insights on advanced to see and share at IMTS 2018, in September. Now more than 90 years in business, the International Manufacturing Technology Show — still “the manufacturing and high machine tool show” to lifers — proves that as a gathering of designers, technology, on display engineers, physicists, experts in material science, information technology, electronics, hydraulics, and machinists too – as well as the financiers, mar- and in application. keters, buyers and sellers that make manufacturing big business. It proves that machining parts is high technology. Manufacturing technology. 3 ☞ REGISTER: www.americanmachinist.com AMERICAN MACHINIST LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY AT WORK THE EXPERT SPEAKS Douglas K. Woods may be the one person among fered, “and it’s an opportunity for the builders of the many thousands who has a clear vision of all manufacturing-technology equipment to show their that is happening in the business. He is one of those achievements and innovations to a broad base of lifelong manufacturing professionals with extensive industrial users.” personal associations with machine shops and ma- “It’s a place that you can come to look for a solu- chine-tool and cutting-tool developers. He’s held tion to a specific manufacturing need, or if you’re just executive positions and directorships for commercial seeking to find out the latest that’s happening in your enterprises, in business development programs like technology space, how you might in the future improve the Reshoring Initiative and the National Center for the productivity or efficiency of your operation.” Defense Manufacturing and Machining, and for Woods described the thousands of ideas that are technology initiatives like MTConnect (the manu- emerging as commercial offerings in tooling or fix- facturing interoperability standard) and MTInsight turing, or in controls or automation, or measurement. (a manufacturing business intelligence platform.) What IMTS presents in its ‘Emerging Technology’ As the president of AMT – the Association for Man- pavilion are projects and ventures that will affect ufacturing Technology since 2009, Doug Woods has manufacturing operations “five or 10 years down led the IMTS sponsoring organization through five the road,” he noted — if not even sooner. iterations. He’s seen the many phases of technology If IMTS stands as a platform for manufacturing that are shaping manufacturing. innovations, it’s also the stage for the trends currently “IMTS clearly is the largest manufacturing-tech- shaping manufacturing, the most notable of which is nology event in the Western Hemisphere,” he of- “expansion.” In that development, North American 4 ☞ REGISTER: www.americanmachinist.com AMERICAN MACHINIST LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY AT WORK THE EXPERT SPEAKS industries are drawing on manufacturing’s skills and presented on the IMTS stage, Woods first identified resources to achieve their growth objectives “a real emphasis on ‘hybrid manufacturing,’ with From his position, Woods gained perspective on substantially more exhibitors highlighting those tech- those plans. “What we’re seeing, and hearing, is nologies.” Indeed, a long list of top-tier machine tool a lot more planning for new product debuts and builders — DMG Mori, GFMS, and Mazak — are new technology introductions,” he reported in the ‘breaking through’ ideas combining machining with weeks leading up to the event, “especially by the additive manufacturing. international OEMs. “Integrated subtractive and additive technologies have “I think the big reason for this is not only the strong expanded quite a bit,” Woods observed, emphasizing that economy in the U.S., but that the United States is additive-manufacturing system suppliers “no longer want being seen by these equipment technology developers to be portrayed here as emerging technology.” as the frontline of what’s happening in the manu- Another area of progressive technologies involves facturing ‘space’,” according to the AMT president. robotics and automation. “The exhibitors are realizing “Whether their particular emphasis is digital manu- that the attendees want to see full turnkey solutions facturing, or Smart manufacturing, or transformative presented, not only the (machine tool) OEMs but also technology or exponential technology, people are the automation and robotics developers.” This is a recognizing that this is the hot spot in the world for consequence of the shortage of skilled personnel as that, and so they want to ‘premiere’ products or ad- well as of the rising volume of data collection and vance products here, for automation, for augmented evaluation that goes on in manufacturing, data that is or virtual reality, or machine learning and artificial critical to OEE. “The attendees would like to see an intelligence,” Woods suggested. integrated solution where all these devices are work- Describing the types of manufacturing technologies ing together and sharing
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