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Leading the Way to Energy Independence * Good Vibration (Control): Small vs. Large Machines * MOLD MAKING FOCUS U.S. Molds: The Value Advantage * DIE MAKING FOCUS On the Cusp of Recovery
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Being a leader in today's manufacturing industry requires you to be a technology pioneer. Even states are taking strides to become technology leaders with innovative improvements, such as Ohio in the case of green energy.
Pioneering shops are now turning to advanced technologies like micro milling to meet the new demands of producing micro-sized products. However, there are many aspects to consider before committing to this growing market. Less forgiving than traditional milling, each machine and its components must be suitable to the unique requirements of the task at hand. And, your choice of the size of the machine you are purchasing can have a dramatic affect on the level of production you will be able to achieve. Download this free white paper to learn more ways to capitalize on the micro milling opportunity.
The cyclical path of global outsourcing is making its way back to the US. Following unsatisfactory experiences and mounting frustration in recent years, U.S. mold makers are increasingly seeing projects coming back from offshore and making a strong case for the value advantage of building molds locally.
Die makers and fabricators also reported positive news at the recent
2009 FABTECH=AE Intl. & AWS Welding Show. Though some had different approaches to surviving the down economy, they all are focusing on one thing now - preparing for the recovery.
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Lisa Sterling Director of Marketing Cimatron Technologies, Inc.
Leading the Way to Energy Independence green energy
Ohio's strong commitment to advanced energy makes it a leader in the development of the green economy of the future. Steps taken.
Good Vibration (Control): Small vs. Large Machines size
Different approaches to countering vibration. Learn more.
MOLD MAKING FOCUS U.S. Molds: The Value Advantage money
U.S. moldmakers are increasingly noticing projects coming back from offshore. It's making more dollars and sense.
DIE MAKING FOCUS On the Cusp of Recovery On the cusp of recover
2009 FABTECH=AE Intl. & AWS Welding Show attendees cut through the fluff and focused on what matters. Preparing for the recovery.
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Webinar: Capitalizing on the Growing Demand for Micro Milling Greetings!
Toolmakers around the world are looking for new ways to revive their businesses.
The fast-growing micro-milling segment opens up new opportunities for mold makers to enter a lucrative market niche and differentiate themselves from lower-wage competitors.
At the same time, with sub-micron tolerances and tool tips that can hardly be seen by the naked eye, micro-milling presents mold makers with numerous challenges.
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Speaker: Hari Sridharan VP of Engineering & Business Development Cimatron Technologies, Inc.
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This event is brought to you by Cimatron, a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles, enable collaboration with outside vendors, and ultimately shorten product delivery time. Cimatron's cutting-edge CAD/CAM solutions are widely used in the automotive, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries.
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Hmmm... since setting up my filters this group died. So, I checked back in using Goofy Groups and can now see I apparently forgot to clip the excess text. In my current Tbird settings it wouldn't have allowed me to include such gobs of quoted text (which is a good thing). That said, most threads die when certain constraints are met which makes this group look much less active.
But yes Siemens and I sure others all offer webinars.
Out of curiosity I pulled down the last 2000 posts in this group and 1652 of them were kill filed. At least 70% of what was left was unadulterated drivel not worth reading. This group is on life support but no matter how hard they try, it's unlikely the hoards of mental midgets can kill it.
An Older, Wiser, More Mature American Marketplace * Data Hit Hopeful Notes for Economy * MOLD MAKING FOCUS Amcor PET Bottles Push Limits * DIE MAKING FOCUS The Apple iPad in Manufacturing
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Imparting Fine Surface Finishes When Micromilling
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Have the recent trying economic times affected consumer spending? Many would agree that yes, a shift to a more frugal-minded, earth- conscious, safety-focused consumer base is evident and is having an impact on the manufacturing industry in more ways than one.
Business spending has also been impacted by the economy. 2009 meant spending freezes and near-impossible credit lending. However, the pendulum is swinging in a positive direction. With manufacturing activity at its highest point since August 2004, banks are finally loosening their belts and making financing more accessible for small businesses.
Companies that capitalize on the desire for cost- savings, earth- friendly products are well positioned for future growth. One such company is Amcor PET Packaging, which has recently unveiled new plastic bottle designs aimed at saving cost while using less material.
And, leave it to Apple to continue to be innovative with its products, as it recently revealed the latest - the iPad. But, can it fit into the manufacturing environment?
Enjoy the issue,
Lisa Sterling Director of Marketing Cimatron Technologies, Inc.
An Older, Wiser, More Mature American Marketplace piggy bank
The shift in consumer spending has an impact on manufacturing. Predictions of the changes to come.
Data Hit Hopeful Notes for Economy bank
New studies show banks are beginning to lend again. Learn more.
MOLD MAKING FOCUS Amcor PET Bottles Push Limits Amcor
Amcor PET Packaging has unveiled several new bottle designs that are created to meet goals for style and substance. See the innovative designs.
DIE MAKING FOCUS The Apple iPad in Manufacturing apple
Apple recently revealed its latest product - the iPad. Can it work for manufacturing?
Splitting a part, adding draft for optimal molding condition, creating shut off faces and producing core and cavity inserts in under 7 mins with CimatronE.
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Welcome to Cimatron Tooling Tips! This is a monthly email with information that will help you optimize your Cimatron products.
March Tooling Tips Webinar computer hardware Join us on Wednesday, March 24th, for our monthly Tooling Tips webinar designed to help you get the ultimate performance out of your Cimatron software. Start saving time and increasing productivity by attending our monthly webinar.
Topic: Prepping parts for use in NC.
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Tip #1 New in Cimatron E9.0 are tools for creating Product Manufacturing Information (PMI). These PMI functions are used in a 3D environment to capture manufacturing information that conforms to the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Y14.41- 2003 standard. They are 3D annotations, such as text and dimensions of many types. Other symbols for tolerances and surface finishes are planned for future releases. PMI annotations can be created in any active part or assembly and are also viewable when the models are included in drafting documents.
Tip #2 Prior to version 9.0, defining lines to a reference face required manual selection of the relevant reverence face for each line. This was not only time consuming; it also didn't support automatic propagation of changes to line location and reference faces. Cimatron E 9.0 supports definition of multiple lines to a group of faces, which simplifies the creation process and supports the propagation of geometric changes to line location and reference faces.
Tip #3 Almost any sketch will require a connection to existing geometries in the file. As only the coordinate system point is given by default, others must be added using Add Reference. Add Reference will pick part edges, many points, and even datum entities like planes and coordinate systems. All of these get projected into the current sketch plane. An extra click in the filter tool will add the Faces selection option. Using Add Reference on an entire face will bring all its internal and external loops into the sketch at once, which is a faster way to get many references rather than picking them one at a time.
The face selection filter also works with the Add Geometry tool. Add Geometry by the entire face is the best option for creating a sketch that duplicates the edges of an existing shape.
Tip #4 The data and knowledge from a Cimatron EDM project can be output in many different ways. Often, electrode dimensions are displayed on drawings or sent directly to the EDM machine. Another way of providing useful information is the Electrode Report. Creating the Electrode Report is done with a right mouse click in the electrode tree. From the report screen you have control over four areas that will be output as an Excel document for easy printing.
The top area is a section for the job number and general comments. The second area is for describing the work piece to be burnt. The third area provides information about the electrodes. The last area shows the location and burn dimensions for each electrode. This is a lot of information for one page, sometimes even too much information. There are ways to customize the Electrode Report to include just the information you need.
In each area, you can right click the mouse and select the columns shown in the report. When you close and save the report, it will become the default style for future reports you create. Another option accessible with a right mouse click is to output information for just a single electrode or electrode location, which will produce a significantly shorter report.
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Introducing Injection Simulation Flow Analysis Join us for a Webinar on April 22 Greetings!
We are happy to announce that CimatronE now features plastic flow analysis capabilities. The new capabilities are available in CimatronE
9 SP2 through integration with a proven product called Moldex3D. It offers an integrated tool inside of Cimatron E for fast and accurate flow analysis with a wide range of material types, suppliers and grades. This product also can generate full reports with animation to pass along to your customers.
Moldex3D is an injection simulation software developed by CoreTech System. The Moldex3D analysis tool displays a full 3D visualization of the injectcion molding process, providing the inner temperature and pressure of the cavity. CimatronE users will be able to evaluate the Melt Front Time, Air Trap, Weld Line, Gate Contribution, Pressure Drop, Temperature, Cooling Time, Material 3D Orientation, Filling- Animation, Filling-XY Curve Animation, and XY-Injection Pressure.
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Attend this free introductory webinar and learn how the advanced 3D flow analysis, now available to CimatronE customers, will help you maintain high standards and stay ahead of the competition.
Speaker: John Barnes Application Engineer Cimatron Technologies, Inc.
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Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010 Time: 2:00 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Place: At your desktop (over the web) Register for this Event NOW! Cimatron
This event is brought to you by Cimatron, a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles, enable collaboration with outside vendors, and ultimately shorten product delivery time. Cimatron's cutting-edge CAD/CAM solutions are widely used in the automotive, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries.
Last Chance to Register: Introducing Injection Simulation Flow Analysis Webinar Introducing Injection Simulation Flow Analysis Join us for a Webinar on April 22 Greetings!
We are happy to announce that CimatronE now features plastic flow analysis capabilities. The new capabilities are available in CimatronE
9 SP2 through integration with a proven product called Moldex3D. It offers an integrated tool inside of Cimatron E for fast and accurate flow analysis with a wide range of material types, suppliers and grades. This product also can generate full reports with animation to pass along to your customers.
Moldex3D is an injection simulation software developed by CoreTech System. The Moldex3D analysis tool displays a full 3D visualization of the injectcion molding process, providing the inner temperature and pressure of the cavity. CimatronE users will be able to evaluate the Melt Front Time, Air Trap, Weld Line, Gate Contribution, Pressure Drop, Temperature, Cooling Time, Material 3D Orientation, Filling- Animation, Filling-XY Curve Animation, and XY-Injection Pressure.
Agenda & Speaker
Attend this free introductory webinar and learn how the advanced 3D flow analysis, now available to CimatronE customers, will help you maintain high standards and stay ahead of the competition.
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Speaker: John Barnes Application Engineer Cimatron Technologies, Inc.
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This event is brought to you by Cimatron, a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles, enable collaboration with outside vendors, and ultimately shorten product delivery time. Cimatron's cutting-edge CAD/CAM solutions are widely used in the automotive, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries.
Pioneering Solution for Micro Milling and Manufacturing CimatronE Micro Milling
Free Online Product Demonstration: Thursday, April 29, 2010
Micro Manufacturing
"Our software solution - developed in collaboration with leading cutting tools and machine manufacturers - answers the increasing need to cost-effectively manufacture high precision miniature components in large quantities for such demanding industries as medical, cellular and optics manufacturing. "
- Danny Haran, President and CEO, Cimatron Ltd.
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More and more industries (medical, optics, computer components, etc.) depend on the ability to cost-effectively manufacture very small, high- precision parts and molds.
Cimatron has leveraged over two decades of tooling expertise, and the know-how of best-of-breed NC applications, to introduce a first-of-its- kind Micro Milling application that scales jobs to the micro environment - while ensuring the superior surface accuracy and quality that you require.
With Cimatron's Micro Milling application, you can:
Effectively scale jobs to a micro environment * Reduce tool wear-and-tear, and eliminate breakage * Minimize dependence on EDM electrodes * Effectively heal sub-optimal imported geometry * Have built-in high-speed cutting strategies
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Tip #1 The Cut Manager presents new options for Add operations, providing complete control over how the design is affected by adding the new component. Cut Manager lists the components that are in contact with the added component. The checkbox next to each component indicate whether it is going to be cut by the new part cutting object (according to the existing cutting rule) and are checked accordingly. The user may manually change the cut analysis results: checking the box will force a cut into a part that may otherwise/originally be an open solid, and un-checking the box will prevent needless cuts in plates that may already be cleared.
Tip #2 Adding components to an assembly by placing them on a face creates a sketch in Cimatron E9. The sketch is an assembly-level feature, holding the dimensions or snap points where components are placed. On occasion, there may be a need to place additional components in the assembly using the same exact X and Y coordinates as a previously added component. In such cases, don't bother hunting for the sketch in the assembly tree. Instead, just right-click the mouse, and select Pick Reference Component. Then select any one of the previously added parts, and the new component will be placed in the same location. What's more, components added using this method can still be individually adjusted. Each snap point has a break option to allow moving it away from the point.
Tip #3 Cimatron has long had the Quick Split function to help divide up plastic parts into sides to be molded. Quick Split organizes the faces from a part into groups. It also organizes the shutoff surfaces built out from the parting lines. It's good to understand the differences between these Part and Parting surfaces. Any part surface will be exported into a single mold component. Parting are steel shutoff surfaces, and therefore must be identical in the two mold components. That's the reason they are illustrated as two faces during the Quick Split animation, and why you must pick two groups when assigning the parting attribute. Part faces and parting faces each have their own tool to distribute them into the mold cavities. Part faces use Export to Part. It can simultaneously create multiple new parts in assembly. Parting faces use Export Parting Faces. This function incorporates a cut of the work piece along with the transfer of shape.
Tip #4 Cimatron's E9.0 non-uniform scaling can now scale by bounding box. This eliminates the need for you to calculate the scaling ratios. The system creates a bounding box around the part and displays the dimensions of the original box. To the left is the area where you enter the new XYZ lengths that you want the part scaled to.
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Telling the Mainstream about Manufacturing * Canadian Youth Shine at Skills Canada Competition * MOLD MAKING FOCUS Doing the Math on Your Moldmaker's Value * DIE MAKING FOCUS Quick Die Change - The Process
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Massive layoffs, plant closings, and the continuing threat of overseas competition have created a lasting erosion in the public's perception of the North American manufacturing industry. This negative perception is now creating a secondary long-term effect that is less publicly noticed - discouraging youth from entering a manufacturing career. However, the shortage of highly skilled employees is already a problem being felt by some manufacturers. According to experts' predictions, the problem will continue growing. Telling the mainstream about manufacturing is an important stride we should all partake in to ensure a vibrant future for our manufacturing sector.
Mazak Corp. Canada is doing its part by participating and contributing annually in the Canadian Skills Competition. The Canadian Skills Competition showcases and raises awareness for skilled trades in Canada. Events like this not only help produce talented professionals, but also pave the way for quality products we can all enjoy for years to come.
A company committed to superior quality and customer satisfaction is A-1 Tool Company (Melrose Park, IL). Focusing on delivering value to customers, taking an in-depth look at the customer's processes, and challenging the traditional approaches present an opportunity for profitability for both the Mold Maker and the customer.
For Die Makers, carefully evaluating processes such as die changes can help pinpoint bottlenecks and problem areas. Developing a successful quick- changeover process can help streamline shop floor workflows and deliver significant savings in time and money.
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Lisa Sterling Director of Marketing Cimatron Technologies, Inc.
Telling the Mainstream about Manufacturing classroom
How do we reach the next generation of manufacturing employees? One machine tool company succeeds with local efforts. What they are doing.
Canadian Youth Shine at Skills Canada Competition Team Canada
Mazak Corp. Canada lends a hand with the CNC Machining competition. See how.
MOLD MAKING FOCUS Doing the Math on Your Moldmaker's Value doing the math
This story features an example of a mold building company presenting new approaches to improve a customer's profitability. Do the math.
DIE MAKING FOCUS Quick Die Change - The Process fast
Expediting die-changes can save time and money. Tips for planning the process.
The road to economic recovery is not always smooth or short. However, economists continue to report that we are still on the recovery path. The evidence from the manufacturing front is that for die makers, business is picking up and toolrooms are buzzing with activity.
Many companies had to make very tough decisions during the down times =96 some involving significant changes to their business operations.
For example, injection molder Polymer Conversions and its customer, SensGard LLC, have embraced a refreshing change by developing a special partnership in an effort to bring an exciting new technology to market.
And, if your business hasn=92t experienced change, it likely will during these times of improvement. How you manage the change can notably impact how effective these changes are going to be.
Enjoy the issue,
Lisa Sterling Director of Marketing Cimatron Technologies, Inc.
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Job Hopes Rise on Flurry of Economic Reports * How to Manage Change * MOLD MAKING FOCUS: Injection Molder Helps Inventor Successfully Market New Ear Protection Device * DIE MAKING FOCUS: On the Rebound
ARTICLES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Job Hopes Rise on Flurry of Economic Reports
Fewer people are filing claims for unemployment aid, new job are showing up in service industries, and companies are squeezing all they can from lean staffs and may need to hire soon.
Experts report on the economy.
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to Manage Change
One word that captures the essence of what is occurring in the world today - change.
How to better manage it.
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MAKING FOCUS: Injection Molder Helps Inventor Successfully Market New Ear Protection Device
A new product and partnership are leading to success for custom injection molder Polymer Conversions Inc. and its customer, SensGard LLC, maker of hearing protection devices.
Learn more.
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MAKING FOCUS: On the Rebound
Toolrooms throughout the industry are buzzing with activity as dies make their way back into production.
The adoption and implementation of a number of technological solutions at its New York and Philadelphia facilities allowed Rifton, a designer and manufacturer of adaptive and rehabilitative equipment for disabled children and adults, to successfully deal with a number of efficiency and production issues.
Read the full story as seen in Manufacturing Business Technology.
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