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Features
Traditional Manufacturing Rules No Longer Apply
by Dr. Bert P. Erdel, Executive Technology Advisor Aerospace, DMG America
Standardizing manufacturing within the value supply chain through concurrent engineering, concurrent manufacturing, and advanced machining processes.
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Bridging the Gap: Engineering to Manufacturing
By John Cachat, Chairman and Founder, IQS
The gap between engineering and manufacturing is legendary. Some would say it is similar to the Hatfields and the McCoys.
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Machining Exotic Materials in One Setup
by Elizabeth Modic, Senior Editor
Falcon Precision Industries, Inc. specializes in machining complex aerospace components in prototype and low production quantities.
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A Driving Force in the Industry: The Supplier Excellence Alliance
Edited by Elizabeth Modic, Senior Editor
The Supplier Excellence Alliance (SEA) is a partnership of aerospace, defense, and space prime and Tier One contractors, and leading sub-tier production suppliers who are leading an unprecedented conversion of the global supply chain.
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Overseas Competition? Not a Threat
Edited by Elizabeth Modic, Senior Editor
On the western Kansas prairie, halfway between Denver and Kansas City, is a high-tech machine shop.
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The Power of Efficiency
by Heather Tunstall, Associate Editor
The employees of Baltimore, MD-based MAC Machine know the importance of efficiency and accuracy.
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Cracking the Code: Identifying Challenges and Solutions in the CAD/CAM Industry
By Heather Tunstall, Associate Editor
On March 31, 2008, at the WESTEC show in Los Angeles, CA, Aerospace Manufacturing and Design's Editorial Director/Associate Publisher Tom Grasson held a CAD/CAM Roundtable with industry leaders.
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Manufacturer's Reference Guide
NASA Plots Course to Higher Technology
AMD
Sometimes you just don't realize how much better new technology is until you try it.
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Modular Workholding Helps Reduce Shop's Operating Costs
AMD
Twenty-one hours of machine time using only one manned shift.
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Seamless Geometry Interchange Answer
AMD
Customers were asking for a modeling preprocessor that would shrink the prep time for finite element analysis, but creating the software in-house from scratch wasn't feasible for ANSYS Inc.
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Aviation Appreciation
Name That Plane!
AMD
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design welcomes all aircraft enthusiasts to join in the fun and NAME THAT PLANE! Each issue, a new aircraft will be featured in the Aviation Appreciation section. Given a photo and a clue box, readers are encouraged to guess which plane is being described and send in their answers to the AMD staff.
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Technically Speaking
Automated Composites Technology Continues
By Randy Kappesser, Vice President & General Manager, MAG Cincinnati - Composites, Hebron, KY
Make room, metalworking. The automated composites processing revolution continues maturing as a core manufacturing technology.
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The Three "R's" of Chuck Maintenance: Repairing, Reconditioning, Replacing
AMD
How do you decide which is correct for your situation?
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From the Flight Deck
Let's Not be Tricked into an Economic Recession
Tom Grasson, Associate Publisher/Editorial Director
There is no denying that we are experiencing the biggest housing slump in a quarter century, and that energy prices continue to march upward.
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Expert Opinion
Multi-Axis Laser Challenges, Changes, and New Technology
Teryy VanderWert, President, PRIMA North America Discusses
The aerospace industry and increasingly the land based power turbine industry rely heavily on laser drilling for producing cooling holes in components.
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Featured Product
Cylindrical Grinder Delivers Efficiency, High Tolerances
AMD
The S12 production external cylindrical grinding machine, from Fritz Studer AG, is designed in a logicallyconsistent manner for efficient series production.
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News You Can Use
Innovation Center Theme Days Planned For IMTS 2008
AMD
The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2008 will feature an all new Innovation Center highlighting a relevant theme brought to life through thought-provoking presentations by industry experts each day during the six-day show September 8 - 13, 2008 at Chicago's McCormick Place.
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Making Lean Soar in Aerospace and Defense
AMD
Combining the lessons learned from serving the world's leading aerospace and defense (A&D) manufacturing companies and the insights from the leading industry experts and thought leaders, Cincom Systems announces the first of a five part webinar series.
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Multi-Million Dollar Aerospace Contract
AMD
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has awarded Flow International Corporation a second multimillion dollar contract to supply MHI with Flow's Composite Machining Center (CMC) waterjet machine tools to cut the carbon fiber wing skins for a major commercial jet aircraft program.
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Fundamental Robotics Certification Program
AMD
FANUC Robotics America, Inc. has introduced the Certified Education Robot Training (CERT) program.
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Customers Get a 24-Hour Spare Parts Guarantee
AMD
A 24-hour spare parts guarantee for customers in the United States and Canada is now offered by Mori Seiki.
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Rem Sales Remains Exclusive North America Tsugami Rep
AMD
Tornos' headquarters in Switzerland released an announcement stating that Tornos and Tsugami have forged an alliance.
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Creating International Second Source Suppliers
AMD
Northrop Grumman Corporation has added momentum to its commitment to create international second source suppliers for F-35 Lightning II aircraft components by hosting composite manufacturing training for engineers and manufacturing specialists from Danish firm Terma and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).
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Horizontal Stabilizer Passes 150% Load Testing
AMD
Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, has successfully completed the "ultimate load testing" of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner horizontal stabilizer.
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Pre-Engineering Program For Our Future Engineers
AMD
Lockheed Martin Corporation and Project Lead The Way have partnered together on Lockheed's "Engineers in the Classroom" K-12 education outreach initiative.
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Aerotest America 2008 Expo & Forum
AMD
AeroTest America 2008 Expo & Forum will take place November 17 - 20, 2008 at the Fort Worth Convention Center
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Aerospace Threaded Fastener Production
AMD
Acument Global Technologies, Inc. is re-entering the high-performace aerospace threaded fastener market.
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Solutions For Aircraft Component Manufacturers
AMD
The increase in titanium aircraft components, and the need to quickly optimize the process for machining them, has recently led some leading manufacturers to seek a single-source supplier for capital equipment, specialized cutting tools, and applications engineering programming expertise including CATIA V5 programming services.
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Integrated Logistics Records Management
AMD
Siemens PLM Software has added an integrated logistics records management capability to its Teamcenter for MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) suite of software.
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FYI
Bill Gibbs Talks About the Cimatron Merger
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What it means for the industry.
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