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Kip Hanson

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As seen in: SME Media, Shop Metalworking Technology, Smart Manufacturing, Assembly Magazine, The Fabricator, American Machinist, Manufacturing Engineering & Technology, Advanced Manufacturing Now, Digital Engineering 247, Cutting Tool Engineering (US), Manufacturing News, FAB Shop Direct and
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Ready, Preset, Go

Ready, Preset, Go

Cutting Tool Engineering (US) — This article reviews the basics of coordinate systems and machine programming as a basis for presetting tools. The process for setting tool offsets is desc...
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MSC Knowledge Center - MSC Industrial Supply Co.

MSC Knowledge Center - MSC Industrial Supply Co.

mscdirect.com — Explore expert advice, how-to guides and industry trends in MSC's Knowledge Center - your hub for insights to boost productivity and performance.
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Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing

The Fabricator — Additive Manufacturing - 3D printing focuses on the next generation of manufacturing, the culmination of advanced control technology, design software, and material development. With this process, manufacturers can create a simple or complex geometric object layer-by-layer, fusing one layer to the other.
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Smart Shop Essentials

Smart Shop Essentials

Smart Manufacturing — Prescriptive and actionable information on all things related to helping small and medium sized manufactures (SMM) make a successful transition to Smart Manufacturing.
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Frothy fabrication - Fab Shop Magazine

Frothy fabrication - Fab Shop Magazine

fsmdirect.com — Ah, beer. Homer Simpson, who once admitted "Homer no function beer well without," said it's the cause of and solution to all of life's problems. He's in excellent company. Jack Nicholson called beer the best damn drink in the world.
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Riding the Virtual Road - Digital Engineering

Riding the Virtual Road - Digital Engineering

digitalengineering247.com — Hats off to those riding shotgun in the self-driving test vehicles operated by Lyft, Uber, Argo AI and other autonomous vehicle (AV) adoption pioneers. With their eyes on the road and hands at the ready, these brave souls are paving the way toward a more efficient future-one where commuters can avoid wasting time behind the wheel each day, where accidents and traffic jams are ancient history and where individual car ownership will likely become obsolete.
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Connecting the Dots in Manufacturing

Connecting the Dots in Manufacturing

sme.org — Before Industry 4.0, it didn't matter that the CAM software didn't talk to the ERP system, or that the CNC machine tools were mute. Islands of information were acceptable back then.
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What AM was planned for IMTS?

What AM was planned for IMTS?

sme.org — Had IMTS 2020 taken place as scheduled, it would have been clear that making parts as quickly and cost-effectively as possible remains as the primary goal in manufacturing. And nowhere is this more evident than in the additive manufacturing (AM) market, where equipment and software suppliers continue to improve their wares.
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Riding the Wave

Riding the Wave

sme.org — Driving into work one Tuesday morning in late March, Charles Boyce grew tired of hearing about the ventilator crisis in New York City. The president of Long Island City-based Boyce Technologies Inc. and a lifelong resident of the Empire State, he decided to do something about it, so convened a meeting with several of his engineers when he arrived.
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Multi-Purpose Machine Tool

Multi-Purpose Machine Tool

sme.org — So you've heard all sorts of good things about Swiss-style, sliding headstock CNC lathes and have been thinking about investing in one. There are some excellent reasons to do precisely that.
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Are all the new materials being developed for additive manufacturing necessary?

Are all the new materials being developed for additive manufacturing necessary?

The Fabricator — Call me ignorant. Call me uninformed. Call me whatever you like-just don't call me late to dinner. Seriously, though, I didn't realize until lately how many frigging materials there are out there for 3D printing.
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Raising the Bar

Raising the Bar

Cutting Tool Engineering — Ask any hand screw or screw machine operator the meaning of the term "rattle tube" and you'll likely get an earful. Of course, you'll probably have to shout, because he'll be hard of hearing.
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Water wardens

Water wardens

Cutting Tool Engineering — Back in my early shop days, we were lousy environmentalists. Untold gallons of dirty cutting fluid went down the drain, dumpsters-full of oily chips, floor dry and paper towels were sent to the nearby landfill, and a 5-gal. bucket or two of used hydraulic fluid might have gone into the dumpster as well.
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Building better bones

Building better bones

Shop Metalworking Technology — by Kip Hanson Additive manufacturing promises to make metal implants obsolete Physicians have used metal to repair the human body for over a century, beginning with vanadium steel in the early 1900s. That corrosion-prone material has since been replaced by a number of high strength, low corrosion alloys - stainless steel and cobalt-chrome are favourites for orthopaedic implants, and titanium screws and bone plates are common.
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Building better bones

Building better bones

Shop Metalworking Technology — by Kip Hanson Additive manufacturing promises to make metal implants obsolete Physicians have used metal to repair the human body for over a century, beginning with vanadium steel in the early 1900s. That corrosion-prone material has since been replaced by a number of high strength, low corrosion alloys - stainless steel and cobalt-chrome are favourites for orthopaedic implants, and titanium screws and bone plates are common.
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Programming Tools

Programming Tools

Shop Metalworking Technology — by Kip Hanson To mould and die shops, CAD/CAM is one piece of the software puzzle The metals used to make plastic injection moulds, progressive stamping dies, and any of the various other production tooling in use today rank among the most difficult ...
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Beyond nesting - Fab Shop Magazine

Beyond nesting - Fab Shop Magazine

fsmdirect.com — I was once one of those expensive (some say overpaid) enterprise resource planning (ERP) consultants. After you purchased my employer's software, I'd come onsite for days, weeks and sometimes months to learn everything I could about your company's manufacturing operations, then figure out how to make you happy with your new ERP system.
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Shop floor lasers

Shop floor lasers

Shop Floor Lasers — Whether it's with a traditional robot or a collaborative one, abrasive operations can be automated. Read all about it within the new Modern Abrasives & Deburring issue within Shop Floor Lasers.
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More Profitable Toolpaths - Advanced Manufacturing

More Profitable Toolpaths - Advanced Manufacturing

AdvancedManufacturing.org — Adaptive Milling. Dynamic Motion. hyperMILL. Profit Milling. VoluMill. Waveform machining. If you're one of the lucky people who machines parts for a living, chances are about 50-50 that you're using one of these or a comparable high-performance programming technology to generate chip thinning, continuous engagement, high-axial and low-radial depth of cut toolpaths for your shop's machining centers.
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Meeting Moldmaking Challenges - Advanced Manufacturing

Meeting Moldmaking Challenges - Advanced Manufacturing

AdvancedManufacturing.org — Designing and manufacturing plastic injection molds is a difficult way to earn a living. Here's what the industry is doing to make it a little easier. Of all the different manufacturing disciplines, plastic injection moldmaking is perhaps the most challenging. Part accuracies are best measured in microns. Surface finishes often approach optical levels.
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Grinding Strategies Go from Good to Great - Advanced Manufacturing

Grinding Strategies Go from Good to Great - Advanced Manufacturing

AdvancedManufacturing.org — Maybe your company specializes in aerospace or medical components, and you need to produce complex geometries in metals too tough to cut via conventional machining methods. Or maybe you work in or own a tool and cutter shop, and are looking for faster, more cost-effective ways to produce drills, end mills, and form tools.
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Beyond Niche: Alternative Manufacturing for Aerospace Parts - Advanced Manufacturing

Beyond Niche: Alternative Manufacturing for Aerospace Parts - Advanced Manufacturing

AdvancedManufacturing.org — A typical commercial jetliner contains millions of discrete components, yet provided the plane arrives at its destination safely, on schedule, and hopefully without a screaming baby behind them, most of the flying public could care less how any of those parts were made.
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Vertical inclinations - Sawing Productivity Magazine

Vertical inclinations - Sawing Productivity Magazine

sawingproductivity.com — Still cutting structural steel with a horizontal bandsaw? It might be time to go vertical | Those that follow the machine tool industry have probably heard the news: in August of 2018, Amada Holdings Co. Ltd. of Japan acquired Marvel Mfg. Co. Inc., maker of the Marvel brand of metal cutting bandsaws, circular saws and ironworkers since 1904.
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