 Manufacturers can reap myriad benefits by allowing machines to operate autonomously without having humans to stand watch, including greater efficiency, improved quality and lower costs. Unattended systems also enables line workers to focus on more value-added tasks. In this podcast, Jared Leick, Mazak’s machining product group manager, explains how to best implement such strategies and overcome potential hurdles.    Learn more about Mazak by visiting them at mazak.com

Manufacturers can reap myriad benefits by allowing machines to operate autonomously without having humans to stand watch, including greater efficiency, improved quality and lower costs. Unattended systems also enables line workers to focus on more value-added tasks. In this podcast, Jared Leick, Mazak’s machining product group manager, explains how to best implement such strategies and overcome potential hurdles.   Learn more about Mazak by visiting them at <a href="https://www.mazak.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mazak.com</a>

Making the Most of Unattended Operations

 John Schulz, director of sustainability operations at AT&amp;T, joins Smart Manufacturing contributing lead editor Amy Bryson for a discussion on climate change and manufacturing, exploring ways connectivity solutions can lead to greater efficiency and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

John Schulz, director of sustainability operations at AT&amp;T, joins Smart Manufacturing contributing lead editor Amy Bryson for a discussion on climate change and manufacturing, exploring ways connectivity solutions can lead to greater efficiency and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Change and Manufacturing – Ideas for Being Part of the Solution

 Rick Crabtree, product solution specialist, auto aluminum at Sandvik Coromant, joins contributing lead editor Amy Bryson for a discussion about how to overcome challenges on the machine shop floor to optimize operations and lower die cast aluminum manufacturing costs without sacrificing quality.  To learn more about Sandvik Coromant, visit them at https://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-us.

Rick Crabtree, product solution specialist, auto aluminum at Sandvik Coromant, joins contributing lead editor Amy Bryson for a discussion about how to overcome challenges on the machine shop floor to optimize operations and lower die cast aluminum manufacturing costs without sacrificing quality. To learn more about Sandvik Coromant, visit them at <a href="https://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-us</a>.

Lowering Die Cast Aluminum Manufacturing Costs

 Strategic coach Jeff Kimball and fractional CIO Eric Sluss from technology advisor Net at Work join Amy Bryson, contributing lead editor of Smart Manufacturing, to discuss the optimal strategic planning process and technology roadmap to achieve business outcomes such as growth, efficiency or productivity. Make sure you also check out the companion webinar:  Aligning Your Technology Roadmap for Strategic Success - Net at Work - SME Resources

Strategic coach Jeff Kimball and fractional CIO Eric Sluss from technology advisor Net at Work join Amy Bryson, contributing lead editor of Smart Manufacturing, to discuss the optimal strategic planning process and technology roadmap to achieve business outcomes such as growth, efficiency or productivity. Make sure you also check out the companion webinar: <a href="https://www.smeresources.org/resource/net-at-work-aligning-your-technology-roadmap-for-strategic-success" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Aligning Your Technology Roadmap for Strategic Success - Net at Work - SME Resources</a>

Aligning Your Technology Roadmap for Strategic Success

Brian Matthews, CEO of ADDiTEC, joins Smart Manufacturing contributing lead editor Amy Bryson for a discussion about the latest disruptive technology to hit the market – ADDiTEC’s new portable robotic system, the Performance AMRC – P, which allows parts to be printed on demand from anywhere and supports 3D printing of reactive materials such as titanium. To learn more about ADDiTEC, visit them at https://www.additec.net/

Brian Matthews, CEO of ADDiTEC, joins Smart Manufacturing contributing lead editor Amy Bryson for a discussion about the latest disruptive technology to hit the market – ADDiTEC’s new portable robotic system, the Performance AMRC – P, which allows parts to be printed on demand from anywhere and supports 3D printing of reactive materials such as titanium. To learn more about ADDiTEC, visit them at <a href="https://www.additec.net/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.additec.net/</a>

Exploring Innovation in Portable, On-Demand Additive Manufacturing

Today's special Voices AMplified podcast features host John Barnes, CEO and founder of The Barnes Global Advisors and Metal Powderworks. Chair of SME’s AM Technical Community Leadership Committee, Barnes, talks with Christina Kurth Vice President of Sales, Sintavia. Kurth shares her story and passion for the additive manufacturing technology sector, that enables a more sustainable world from flight, launch, and energy creation.

Today's special Voices AMplified podcast features host John Barnes, CEO and founder of The Barnes Global Advisors and Metal Powderworks. Chair of SME’s AM Technical Community Leadership Committee, Barnes, talks with Christina Kurth Vice President of Sales, Sintavia. Kurth shares her story and passion for the additive manufacturing technology sector, that enables a more sustainable world from flight, launch, and energy creation.

Voices AMplified: AM and Sustainability

Next-generation digital manufacturing platforms must go beyond total quality with an even more comprehensive approach. In this podcast, SME Media Senior Editor Steve Plumb speaks with Paolo Belluzzi, divisional manager for Marposs’ TESTAR unit, about the benefits of integrating monitoring, measuring, testing, and various shop floor sensors and data. To learn more about Marposs, visit them at Marposs.com

Next-generation digital manufacturing platforms must go beyond total quality with an even more comprehensive approach. In this podcast, SME Media Senior Editor Steve Plumb speaks with Paolo Belluzzi, divisional manager for Marposs’ TESTAR unit, about the benefits of integrating monitoring, measuring, testing, and various shop floor sensors and data. To learn more about Marposs, visit them at <a href="https://www.marposs.com/eng/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Marposs.com</a>

Masterminding Smart Factories

Peter Andersson, Product Manager of Automation and Assembly Systems with SW North America, joins Contributing Lead Editor of Smart Manufacturing magazine Amy Bryson for a conversation about the key drivers and tangible benefits of automation for manufacturers.   

Peter Andersson, Product Manager of Automation and Assembly Systems with SW North America, joins Contributing Lead Editor of Smart Manufacturing magazine Amy Bryson for a conversation about the key drivers and tangible benefits of automation for manufacturers.

Key Factors Driving the Need for Automation

Jan Irzyk, AIMS Product Manager at ANCA CNC Machines, joins Contributing Lead Editor of Smart Manufacturing magazine Amy Bryson for a conversation about how modern automation solutions and strategies can help manufacturers reach business goals and achieve resiliency.  

Jan Irzyk, AIMS Product Manager at ANCA CNC Machines, joins Contributing Lead Editor of Smart Manufacturing magazine Amy Bryson for a conversation about how modern automation solutions and strategies can help manufacturers reach business goals and achieve resiliency.

Manufacturing More with Less: Creating Solutions for Production Challenges with Smart Automation

AJ Alexander, Chief Revenue Officer of SORBA.ai, joins Contributing Lead Editor Amy Bryson to discuss two paths of implementing an AI platform to become more efficient, reduce energy, predict unplanned downtime, and help build a more sustainable future.  

AJ Alexander, Chief Revenue Officer of <a href="http://SORBA.ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SORBA.ai</a>, joins Contributing Lead Editor Amy Bryson to discuss two paths of implementing an AI platform to become more efficient, reduce energy, predict unplanned downtime, and help build a more sustainable future.

Build vs. Buy? What’s Best for Your AI Platform and Application Needs

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Tom O’Reilly, VP, Global Business Development at Rockwell Automation, details how his company's five-year plan to restructure its facility and supplier networks has led to a four- to five-percent annual improvement in productivity: "If you look at how we did/do it, here are some examples: inventory days dropped from 120 to 82. We reduced our CAPEX ... by 30 percent per year. Our delivery within our supply chain went from 80 percent to 96 percent. Our lead times were actually reduced by 50 percent. And then, for customer service, our delivery-to-customer want date went from 82 percent to 98 percent. And with regard to quality, we reduced our PPM by 50 percent."

Rockwell Automation counts all the ways digital ‘journey’ has paid off

Charlie Miller, director of sales for the Eastern region of the US for the robot and applications group at ABB, examines emerging trends in robotic welding, how the Industrial Internet of Things is driving changes in the sector, and the biggest challenges users need to address--including the shortage of skilled workers.

New Technology, IIOT Drive Big Changes in Robotic Welding

When it comes to making decisions for manufacturing, you don’t know what you don’t know. But solutions exist for changing this. Chris Mahar, Associate Editor for Manufacturing Engineering, talks with Egbert Schröer, Principal Program Manager Azure Industrial IoT &amp; AI at Microsoft, to talk about artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. Technologies that are enabling manufacturers to improve their business and manufacturing operations by uncovering the unknown. Click here for more information!

When it comes to making decisions for manufacturing, you don’t know what you don’t know. But solutions exist for changing this. Chris Mahar, Associate Editor for Manufacturing Engineering, talks with Egbert Schröer, Principal Program Manager Azure Industrial IoT &amp; AI at Microsoft, to talk about artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. Technologies that are enabling manufacturers to improve their business and manufacturing operations by uncovering the unknown. <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/iot/?imcid=AZ_IOT_lobdm_Tp_sme_bpmms_-_-_38" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Click here for more information!</a>

Boosting Profits and Making Manufacturing Smarter

Dr. Jeffery Ahrstrom, President and COO of BLM Group USA, explores how a tube laser system can help manufacturers replace the physical processes of punching, sawing and milling with lasing in order to reduce work-in-progress, improve upon existing manufacturing processes, and create new ones.

The Benefits of Tube Lasers for Punching, Sawing and Milling

In this podcast discussion with Rick Schultz of FANUC America and Bruce Morey, Senior Technical Editor for Manufacturing Engineering Magazine, current practices in aerospace machining is dissected. Many shops today stick with the tried and true to reduce risk to schedule and profit, but that tried and true is stuck in the 1980s and 1990s. Rick discusses practical ways to get the most out of 21st century machining technology, by programming for the part and not the machine.

In this podcast discussion with Rick Schultz of FANUC America and Bruce Morey, Senior Technical Editor for Manufacturing Engineering Magazine, current practices in aerospace machining is dissected. Many shops today stick with the tried and true to reduce risk to schedule and profit, but that tried and true is stuck in the 1980s and 1990s. Rick discusses practical ways to get the most out of 21st century machining technology, by programming for the part and not the machine.

Optimal Machining Concepts For Aerospace -- Program The Part Not The Machine

Additive manufacturing has made tremendous strides in recent years and has advantages over traditional manufacturing processes in many applications. However, AM still faces significant barriers. In this podcast, Alan Rooks, Editor in Chief of Manufacturing Engineering magazine, talks with Matt Wise, CEO of Fisher Unitech about AM’s current and future role in manufacturing, including innovative new applications.

The Future of Additive Manufacturing

The Brose Group is growing in the US. In fact, the operations of Brose North America, the US arm of the global auto supplier, are growing at a rapid pace. Brose North America President Michael Brosseau sat down with Manufacturing Engineering Editor Emeritus at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit to talk about the company’s growth and the urgent need it has for workers to help keep the expansion on track.

SKILLS GAP PROVES PROBLEMATIC FOR  AUTO SUPPLIER GROWTH

If you cut metal and make chips, machine tools are the lifeblood of your operation. Ryan Hegman, National Sales Manager, Caron Engineering Inc, talks with Chris Mahar, Associate Editor of Manufacturing Magazine, about how software and sensors can improve CNC machine tool life and performance. From better predicting and managing tool life and replacement intervals to maximizing precision through auto-compensation of tool wear, automating CNC machining is about more than robotics. Hegman shares how software and sensor automation can elevate your machining operations to the next level.

Better Chips: Machine Tool Automation (Hint: It’s not Robots)

Frank Arteaga, Head of Product Marketing for Bystronic, explains why Industry 4.0 isn’t just for big companies and why small to medium-sized job shops should learn about and adopt it. He also explains how job shops can implement Industry 4.0 without making major changes to equipment and software.

Why Industry 4.0 is Not Just for Big Manufacturers

When it comes to the flow of making something – from concept to design to ordering to production – manufacturing hasn’t changed as much over the last 50 years as many may believe. Gregg Bigleman, PhD, vice president of North American Sales at Sandvik Applied Manufacturing Technologies, sits down with Chris Mahar, associate editor of Manufacturing Engineering, to talk how new technologies can improve this process. Today’s software and services are enabling a connected manufacturing environment that streamlines the manufacturing process into a single linear path, where information flows accurately and smoothly between the different stages and steps.

When it comes to the flow of making something – from concept to design to ordering to production – manufacturing hasn’t changed as much over the last 50 years as many may believe. Gregg Bigleman, PhD, vice president of North American Sales at Sandvik Applied Manufacturing Technologies, sits down with Chris Mahar, associate editor of Manufacturing Engineering, to talk how new technologies can improve this process. Today’s software and services are enabling a connected manufacturing environment that streamlines the manufacturing process into a single linear path, where information flows accurately and smoothly between the different stages and steps.

Upgrading the Manufacturing Path

Hod Lipson, co-author with Melba Kurman of the book "Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead," asserts that AV technology is going to change things for everyone, in all business and sectors. "It’s a tsunami heading our way." And, says the Columbia University professor of engineering and data science, "deep learning" software is so good at understanding and perception that it far surpasses humans. "It can see in the dark, in the rain. It can see not with two eyes but with 20 eyes. It is part of the reason robots will be able to handle a larger variety of tasks because they won’t need to confine themselves to just one type of component. They’ll be able to package different objects with different shapes and sizes without being programmed in advance.

Ripple effects from ‘deep learning,’ AVs to be felt far and wide

Guest: Jeannine Kunz, ToolingU-SME. Interviewed by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Jeannine Kunz, the director of Tooling U-SME, about how workforce development is changing in an area where manufacturers struggle to find workers. Learn how ToolingU-SME helps small, medium and large manufacturers prepare a plan to keep their current workers on top of the latest technologies, develop ongoing training plans and ensure they can continue to grow with the workforce they need.

How is ToolingU-SME Helping Develop the Manufacturing Workforce?

Guest: Mohamed Abuali, CEO Forcam, Inc. Interviewed by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak. SME’s Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Mohamed Abuali about Forcam’s technology for promoting a digital manufacturing future, and why small and medium manufacturers need to learn more about the available technology and how it can improve their competitiveness.

How Digital Technologies are Driving a New Era of Productivity

So, you've inherited older and/or disjointed systems and processes (and perhaps an unhelpful company culture) but you want to gain a competitive edge. What to do? Look at how systems can be integrated with a centralized tooling database, not at each individual process as a separate entity, Dan Speidel of TDM Systems says. Make sure you digitally tie and integrate the tool crib with CAM systems and machine controller. Getting control over inventory and tools in the shop is doable, he said, giving as an example Wagstaff .  "This is the industrial revolution we have all been waiting for,"  he said, welcoming the "digital food chain" and the move to SaaS in manufacturing.

Ways machine shops can better manage tools and tool data

Chris Cagle of the South Bay Workforce Investment Board in Hawthorne, Calif., explains what his organization does, how the apprenticeship program works, and why such programs are so important. He enumerates employee and student benefits. And he speaks about his organization’s work with SME to develop and register the first aerospace engineering apprenticeship occupation in the U.S.

Why Apprenticeships Matter So Much, and Progress in the U.S.

While Dassault Systemes is best known in the manufacturing industry for its CATIA software, the company’s interests are in fact much broader. Indeed, they span not just the globe but reach into outer space as well. Steve Madge, Dassault vice president for Industry &amp; Global Affairs in High Tech, Future Transportation &amp; Smart Cities, spoke with Manufacturing Engineering Editor Emeritus Jim Sawyer about how part of his job is to seek out mega trends so his company can boldly go where no other enterprise has gone before.

THE MAN CHARGED WITH LAUNCHING DASSAULT INTO NEW ORBITS

Smart Manufacturing magazine Contributing Editor Karen Haywood Queen speaks with Sridhar Tayur about what supply chain players are learning from COVID-19. The Carnegie Mellon professor covers the roles AM and cobots are playing. He also looks at what manufacturers should consider doing to be prepared for the next hugely disruptive event.

Smart Manufacturing magazine Contributing Editor Karen Haywood Queen speaks with Sridhar Tayur about what supply chain players are learning from COVID-19. The Carnegie Mellon professor covers the roles AM and cobots are playing. He also looks at what manufacturers should consider doing to be prepared for the next hugely disruptive event.

What Supply Chain Players Are Learning From The Pandemic

Amanda Pedersen, News Editor of MD+DI (Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry) and Qmed, discusses the trends and technology in the medical industry, such as artificial intelligence, surgical robots and virtual reality, and the opportunities and challenges associated with them. She also talks about UBM's presence at three co-located events in Boston on April 18-19: the Embedded Systems Conference, BIOMEDevice Boston and Design &amp; Manufacturing New England.

UBM Discusses Trends, Technology, Challenges in Medical Device Industry

Inside today’s machine shops, having 5-axis capability is no longer a luxury; it’s a must-have. To price parts competitively, and to make a good profit, shops need to have the efficiencies 5-axis provides. Many shops are planning to make this move, so Advanced Manufacturing Now engaged Errol Burrell and Wade Anderson, product specialists at Okuma America, to discuss exactly how to make the transition from 3-axis to 5-axis machining in a painless way. In a highly entertaining exchange—it even includes a dance metaphor—they look at how 5-axis machining has evolved from a machine tool user’s perspective and describe the pulse of the marketplace today. They go into detail on what kind of ROI shops can expect. And they review some of the reasons shops are moving up to 5-axis.

Smoothing the Transition From 3-Axis to 5-Axis Machining

Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor in Chief Brett Brune interviews Daniel Martinez, a member of the aerospace vertical market team at Siemens Industry USA, at the AeroDef show in California.  Martinez talks about how Siemens adapted its CNC strategy to recent changes in the machining of aerospace/defense parts, as well as to additive manufacturing in aerospace. He also addresses the recent partnership between Siemens and Comau, and Italian robotics company.

Martinez Drills Down on Siemens’ Changing CNC Strategy, Comau Partnership

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