Advanced Manufacturing Now

John Galich, marketing manager for Mate Precision Tooling, discusses trends in the CNC punch press tooling and press brake tooling market; challenges facing the industry; and the evolving mission of Mate Precision Tooling.

John Heuring, Regional Sales Manager for Dallas Industries, explores the challenges fabricators face when their feed line operators process advanced, high-strength steels. He also outlines the special considerations that stampers should consider for feed lines being paired with servo presses.

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.

Mark Scherler, General Manager of Materials Joining for FANUC America, explores how the Internet of Things is changing robotic manufacturing, laser processes that are being used with robotics, and how changes in the manufacturing labor force are affecting the need for robotics.

Craig Tomita, Area Sales Manager for Universal Robots, and David Jackson, President of CleanLogix (an OEM partner of Universal Robots) discuss the use of collaborative robot (cobots) in manufacturing. Cobots can be used without safety guarding on production and assembly lines, and CleanLogix has incorporated a UR cobot in one of its CO2 cleaning applications.

Will Healy, Strategic Marketing Manager, and Dave Bird, Key Account Manager, Metal Forming and Robotic Welding for Balluff Inc., discuss how press shops can dramatically improve uptime, tackle the biggest problems with sensors and networking in robotic welding, and surmount the challenges to implementing Industrial Internet of Things. They also explain how machine builders can increase the value t...

Sandra L. Bouckley, FSME, 2017 President for SME, discusses the current state of the manufacturing workforce, what this means for the future, how companies can help bridge the skills gap and the role of new technology in resolving workforce challenges.

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.

Detlef Zühlke, Scientific Director for Innovative Factory Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Executive Chairman of SmartFactory-KL in Germany, discusses what it was like to be a founding father of Industrie 4.0, obstacles to smart manufacturing and ways the transition can be made smoother.

Manufacturing Engineering Editor-in-Chief James D. Sawyer talks to Dr. Bruce Cameron, MIT faculty director, about the online professional certificate program. Online Education at MIT:  Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems MIT Professional Education's new four-course online professional certificate program, Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems i...

Guest: Met-L-Flow President Carl Dekker. Interviewed by Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor In Chief Brett Brune. How can we get around better? SME's 2017 Digital Manufacturing Challenge invites college and high school students around the world who are in STEM fields to answer the question—by creating forward-thinking, mobility innovation solutions. Contest submissions are due before March 13.

Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor in Chief Brett Brune discusses The Digital Transformation full-day seminar with John Deere's Craig Sutton. Sutton is the chair of the Nov. 9 event. The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) is hosting it in Chicago.

Guest: Mike Molnar, Director - Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, US Dept of Commerce. Interviewed by Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor in Chief Brett Brune. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks with the US Dept of Commerce's Mike Molnar about Manufacturing USA, the new public named for the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. Formally established in 2014, Manufacturing...

Guest: David Morfas, Product Expert at the Plex Systems. Interviewed by  Manufacturing Engineering Magazine Editor in Chief Jim Sawyer. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to David Morfas, who discuss how Smart Manufacturing is the convergence of several technology trends resulting in improved manufacturing productivity. It empowers manufacturers to be more competitive.  This development promis...

Guest: David Wick, Manager, Product Management at ZEISS Industrial Metrology. Interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering magazine Editor in Chief Jim Sawyer. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to David Wick, who discusses what ZEISS Industrial Metrology is planning for IMTS and new trends impacting the metrology industry today. We also discuss new products ZEISS Industrial Metrology plans to rel...

Guest: Dror Danai, Chief Business Officer at XJet Limited. Interviewed by Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor In Chief, Brett Brune. At the RAPID 2016 conference on additive manufacturing, Danai talks to Advanced Manufacturing Now about XJet's positioning—immediately after he showed the public XJet's liquid metal 3D printer and explained its new NanoParticle Jetting (NPJ) technology.

Guest: James Gorham, Executive Vice President at Fujitsu Glovia. Interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering magazine Editor Bill Koenig. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to James Gorham, who discusses what Fujitsu Glovia is planning for IMTS, how the industry has been changing and some of the products Fujitsu Glovia has in the pipeline.

Guest: Rodger Boswell, Vice President of Sales at Hydromat Inc. Interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering magazine Editor Bill Koenig. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Rodger Boswell, who discusses what the company is planning for IMTS, how the industry has been changing and some of the products Hydromat has in the pipeline.

Guest: Howard Heppelmann, Divisional Vice President and General Manager, IoT Manufacturing Solutions, at PTC. Interviewed by Patrick Waurzyniak, Senior Editor, Advanced Manufacturing Media Following PTC's LiveWorx IoT business event in Boston inJune, Heppelmann talks to Advanced Manufacturing Now about PTC's role in the developing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. "I think this is a topic that com...

Guest: Ed Youdell, President and CEO, Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, International. Interviewed by Sarah A. Webster, Editor in Chief, Advanced Manufacturing Media. Youdell talks to Advanced Manufacturing Now about what's new in the 5th year of Manufacturing Day, which will be held Oct. 7. The program has been a runaway success with more than 2,500 events in 2015, reaching more than 400...

Guest: Al Siblani, CEO and Founder, EnvisionTEC. Interviewed by Sarah A. Webster, Editor in Chief, Advanced Manufacturing Media. EnvisionTEC, a leading global manufacturer of professional grade 3D printing solutions headquartered in Dearborn, MI, and Gladbeck, Germany, has developed an all-new additive manufacturing technology to build composites. The SLCOM will be revealed for the first time at R...

Guest: John Fleming Executive Vice President Global Manufacturing & Labor Affairs (Retired), Ford Motor Co., interviewed by Executive Editor James D. Sawyer John Fleming began his career as an apprentice and concluded it as Ford's VP of Global Manufacturing, and talks about his involvement with Industry 4.0. Many in his position would reminisce about the past, Fleming, though is using his vast man...

Guest: Antoine Bisson, co-founder and chief technical  officer of Poka Inc. Interviewed by Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor Brett Brune. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Antoine Bisson about the "social industrial platform" he and a friend created to make training in manufacturing as easy as watching YouTube. It's all about avoiding mistakes and downtime. (We threw in a little Japanese...

Guest: Brian Glowiak, SME Education Foundation. Interviewed by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Brian Glowiak, Director of the SME Education Foundation, about the need for a skilled workforce in manufacturing, and how SME and its longstanding foundation is actively working to fill the pipeline of skilled manufacturing workers through its Partnership Respon...

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.