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Mills CNC Books 41 Machine Orders at Record-Breaking MACH 2026Mills CNC closed MACH 2026 with 41 machine orders and 200 enquiries — its best result in 52 years • The motorsport-themed stand drew 3,000+ visitors and feature...
Remote Lean Consulting Cuts Process Improvement Costs by 80% for SmallManufacturers The Problem: Expertise Locked Behind a Paywall Most manufacturers know their processes could run leaner. • That's the gap a UK-based remote consu...
Physical AI Is Moving to the Edge, and Humanoid Hype Is Missing the PointThe robotics industry has spent years chasing a fantasy: machines that think and move like humans. • Cameras and microphones fed data into models that could id...
Conveyor TCO: Three Engineering Levers That Actually Move the NeedleConveyor systems eat money. • The Mining Energy Consumption report puts energy alone at up to 60% of mining equipment operating costs. • The weight reduction i...
Emerson Ports Factory Automation Stack to Marine VesselsEmerson is porting its factory-floor automation stack to marine vessels, betting that superyachts and ships need the same "single pane of glass" reliability as ...
Davi's All-Electric MCE e-POWER Plate Roller Doubles Positioning PrecisionDavi's all-electric MCE e-POWER plate roller doubles positioning precision to 0.05 vs. 0.1 typical, while eliminating hydraulics ...
CGTech Icam V26 Tightens Post-Processing and Simulation LoopCGTech's Icam V26 tightens the loop between post-processing and simulation, cutting programming friction while giving engineers more control over how their mach...
Robotic Force-Controlled Deburring Becomes Must-Have for Aerospace ManufacturingRobotic force-controlled deburring is moving from nice-to-have to must-have for aerospace manufacturers chasing tighter tolerances and higher throughput. It rep...
Bats Weighing Less Than Two Paper Clips Are Navigating Dark Caves. Engineers Are Taking Notes.Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have built a drone that navigates using echolocation — the same technique bats have used for millions of years. ...
Automated CNC Machine Tending with Collaborative Robots (Cobots) The Challenge of CNC Machine Tending in Modern Production CNC machining centres deliver excepti...
Wide belt deburring is the go-to for high-volume sheet metal shops because it outpaces alternatives on speed and consistency for flat parts—directly cutting pro...
Ecoclean at parts2clean - solutions from coarse to high purity cleaning Whether solvent or water-based cleaning, coarse, intermediate, and final cleaning or ult...
Prima Power at Blechexpo 2025: Fully integrated solutions and a World Premiere Stuttgart, October 21-24 - At Blechexpo 2025, Prima Power, the master of technolo...
Stable and versatile optical wireless power transmission for sustainable IoT World’s first automatic and adaptive, dual-mode light-emitting diode (LED)-based op...
European sheet metal manufacturers are under real pressure to automate without bloating their floorspace — LISSMAC's compact deburring solutions show that "work...
LISA brings AI-assisted setup to sheet metal processing, cutting what used to take minutes down to seconds — a genuine productivity win for shops drowning in or...