Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is an extensively used machining process to produce complex and intrinsic cavities in difficult-to-cut materials. EDM is a non-traditional machining process where ...

Modern CNC machine shops face relentless pressure to boost productivity, shorten cycle times, and reduce costs — all while preserving tool life, part quality and process reliability. They must meet ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He’s been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. This year, we’re taking a close look at the use of ...

Advances in manufacturing (faster, cheaper, smarter) don’t always result from one big technological breakthrough: Much of the work of innovation involves building on what people have accomplished ...

While the case for automation in a high-volume production shop might be obvious, low-volume manufacturers like moldmaking shops can also benefit tremendously when automating their tooling and ...

Plasma—the electrically charged fourth state of matter—is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including those used to make computer chips and coat materials. Simulating those plasmas ...

Continuous Composites’ CF3D fuses continuous-fibre steering, instant UV curing and an automated, anisotropy-aware design workflow into a full-stack platform. The result: near-net composite components ...

Providing help: Process Alliance, which is a Fast 25 company for the fourth consecutive year, is an engineering and science consulting business that works in the life sciences manufacturing industry. ...

An emerging artificial intelligence technique called “transfer learning” could help drug makers use data to speed up the development of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes, according to new ...