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The Japanese refer to small, ongoing, and incremental continuous improvement activities as "Kaizen." It is a cornerstone of Lean manufacturing.

If a machine tool cuts, bends, stamps, prints, or forms parts for nine hours out of a ten-hour shift, with no stopping to check tools, clear chips, or add material (and assuming all the parts are

Ready to get away from it all? Don a pair of virtual reality (VR) goggles and escape to an immersive, three-dimensional world, one that's seeing increased use for industrial training

Just as robots can take the tedium out of machine tending, RPA can automate everyday business tasks like processing customer sales orders and product returns, responding to service requests,

When L-PBF first became commercialized, its detractors noted that the metal particles were not fully melted (only sintered), and several companies built a business on that distinction. Today, the

Stands for fifth-generation mobile network, and as its promoters will tell you, it offers increased security, far greater bandwidth (the size of the pipe), and speeds up to 100 times

Forget the honor system. Vending machines are not only a great way to dispense candy bars and cold drinks, but also cutting tools, shop supplies, and PPE. The result is greater control, less

A Warehouse Management System (WMS) provides more advanced warehouse functions than are generally possible with an ERP system. These include wave picking, RFID and AGV integration, environmental

Take a two-axis CNC lathe, add some milling and drilling attachments along with the additional machine axes needed to drive them, and you have a mill-turn machine. They have become increasingly

If an airplane goes down due to mechanical failure, the OEM will want to know how, when, and where the at-fault component was produced, right down to the raw material used to make it. This