Electric-powered orthopedic prosthetics’ 2015 value
6% CAGR through 2026
Technology found in a prosthetic leg
Hydraulic unit – Two valves independently control joint resistance flexion
Inertial motion unit (IMU) – Gyroscope, acceleration sensors determine position, speed of the Genium; sensor determines flexion angle and flexion angle speed; prosthesis control uses analysis of movements and force acting on the joint
Battery and electronics – Enclosed and protected by the frame; integrated microprocessor coordinates all measurement and control
Bluetooth – Simple communication with the joint; function can be disabled
Knee moment sensor – Data for precisely determining the forces acting on the prosthesis
Inductive charging – Connected with magnets to the back of the knee joint, allows charging through clothing, cosmetic covers
(Example is based on Ottobok’s Genium)
U-M startup Fusion Coolant raises $1.25M
Departments - Current Pulse
Emuge North America partners with Hurco/Brooks; Expanded laser R&D capabilities/facilities
Fusion Coolant Systems, a University of Michigan (U-M) spinout based in Canton, Michigan, has raised $1.25 million in its first close of Series B funding.
Funding included an investment from U-M’s investment program Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups (MINTS) along with the Amherst Fund, a privately held investment firm based in Ann Arbor. Additional investors are expected to join the financing in the next six months. Funds will be used for Fusion’s laboratory expansion and to grow the engineering and sales team.
Fusion Coolant was founded in 2011 to deliver the next-generation of coolant and lubricant technology to advanced manufacturing operations through the use of supercritical carbon dioxide. www.fusioncoolant.com
Emuge North America partners with Hurco/Brooks
Emuge, a manufacturer of high performance rotating cutters and tool holders, is evolving its Technology Center in W. Boylston, Massachusetts into a full service center for manufacturing, grinding, training, and process development. This include the addition of a Hurco VMX30Ui 5-axis trunnion machining center and VM20i high-speed 3-axis vertical machining center for demonstrations and training. The facility will also be a resource for Hurco/Brooks customers for training and process improvement.
“We are very excited about our partnership with Hurco/Brooks and our expanded Technology Center in W. Boylston. Our goal is to offer Emuge customers complete tooling solutions including advanced cutting tool geometries along with 3- and 5-axis programming support,” says Bob Hellinger, president of Emuge Corp. “Emuge engineers can walk a customer through the proper cutting tool selection and then assist in helping them dial-in the correct operating parameters with our in-house machinery.” www.hurco.com, www.emuge.com, www.brooksmachinery.com
Expanded laser R&D capabilities/facilities
Control Micro Systems Inc., having recently participated in several collaborative laser material processing R&D projects with clients in the medical, aerospace, and consumer sectors, has expanded its applications R&D facilities and capabilities. CMS facilities now include CO2 (10,640nm), 2µm Thulium fiber (2,000nm), Ytterbium fiber (1,064nm), frequency-doubled Nd:YVO4 (532nm), frequency-tripled NdYVO4 (355nm UV), and a new multi-wavelength femtosecond laser. Support resources include beam-shaping and focusing optics, robots, programmable stages, vision systems, and test equipment. www.cmslaser.com
It’s time to unlock your potential by capitalizing on manufacturing data
Departments - Editor's Letter
As devices and sensors generate extraordinary amounts of data from the shop floor, the next step is learning how a company can capitalize on this new-found knowledge.
As devices and sensors generate extraordinary amounts of data from the shop floor, the next step is learning how a company can capitalize on this new-found knowledge. Having just returned from IMTS 2016 – The International Manufacturing Technology show, which boasted 115,000+ attendees and more than 2,400 exhibitors – it was easy to see that Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), additive manufacturing (AM), and automation were the leading topics across the show floor. While AM and automation are tangible assets, IIoT is intangible – more of a concept that could accelerate success in a company.
Topics such as IIoT, advanced analytics, and digitally connected, data-driven manufacturing weren’t in daily conversation until 2010, but ever since they’ve rapidly worked into manufacturing facilities of all sizes. The promise of the technology is clear – enhanced manufacturing processes, improved product design and development, and increased responsiveness to customers and suppliers.
Yet, this comes with challenges and concerns. While IIoT improves business innovation, drives up efficiency, and reduces machine downtime by collecting and analyzing data already in a facility, not all systems were designed to share this data. Overcoming that design challenge through the use of sensors, connectivity, security, interoperability, and analytics, should allow facilities to capitalize on this smart manufacturing revolution – leading to better insights and decisions that decrease production downtime, improve competitiveness, and optimize costs.
If you’re not already on this road, there’s no time to hesitate on harnessing your untapped data because, according to Gartner, by 2020 the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to reach 26 billion installed units – up from 0.9 billion in 2010.
While some may see the move to smart manufacturing as too huge to tackle, the benefits outweigh the challenges with the right approach. Even if assets and systems weren’t originally designed to share data, all throughout IMTS 2016, exhibitors highlighted technology that captures data, simple digital machine upgrades, and intelligent gateways to connect legacy equipment. One example of this is the article on page 42, which looks at Machine Metrics’ approach to helping companies enter this arena with little risk and minimized challenges.
As with any disruptive technology, as it starts to take hold it evolves, sometimes changing as fast as it is embraced. So, as companies plan to move toward smart manufacturing, a word of caution is appropriate: Others are headed down this same path; some are ahead of you, others are behind. As IIoT reaches a level of maturity, efficiencies seen from unearthing shop floor data will not remain the competitive differentiator they were at first.
This is not to deter you from embracing smart manufacturing, rather to encourage you not to wait. As fast as you benefit from unlocking that data, you need to prepare for the next industry disruption.
Drop me an email and let me know how your company is implementing smart manufacturing and the IIoT so it’s not left playing catch-up in these data-driven days. ~ Elizabeth
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MONDAY 9/12/16
REGISTRATION - 8:30 - 9:55 A.M.
10:00 - 10:55 A.M.
IMTS01 Room W192-A CGTech Automation: Deciphering the Many Types of NC Program Optimization Gene Granata, Technical Support Manager
IMTS02 Room W192-B GF Machining Solutions Alternative Manufacturing: Electric Discharge Machining of Low Conductivity Materials Ken Baeszler, Market Segment Manager-Aerospace
IMTS03 Room W192-C INDEX Corp. Plant Operations: What's Your New Equipment Payoff? Jeffrey Reinert, President & CEO
11:00 - 11:55 A.M.
IMTS04 Room W193-A Fagor Automation Corp. Process Innovations: High Speed Machining with Dynamic Accuracy Rich Parenti, Applications & Training USA
IMTS05 Room W193-B Global Specialty Machines Alternative Manufacturing: How EDM and ECM Can Effectively Reduce Costs on Many of Today's Critical Components, Especially Those Made from Metals with High Machinability Ratings John Stackhouse, Executive Vice President
IMTS06 Room W194-A Spring Technologies Inc. Automation: Give a Boost to Your Traditional Programming Process: Simplicity and Flexibility Silvere Proisey, General Manager
LUNCH BREAK - 12:00 - 1:10 P.M.
1:15 - 2:10 P.M. IMTS07 Room W192-A Nikon Metrology Inc. Quality: Laser Radar as a Horizontal Arm CMM Replacement Jon Koepl, Laser Radar Product Specialist
IMTS08 Room W192-B Proto Labs Alternative Manufacturing: Designing for the DMLS Process Jonathan Bissmeyer, Senior Quality Engineer
IMTS09 Room W192-C BIG KAISER Precision Tooling Inc. Plant Operations: Selecting the Right Tool Presetter for Your Needs Doug Sumner, Product Manager – Tool Measuring Systems
2:15 - 3:10 P.M.
IMTS10 Room W193-A Haimer USA Quality: The Dirty Little Secret Drew Strauchen, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
IMTS11 Room W193-B Renishaw Inc. Plant Operations: Transform Your Manufacturing with Process Control Daniel Skulan, Midwest Sales Manager
IMTS12 Room W194-A United Grinding North America Inc. Process Innovations, Alternative Manufacturing: An Unlikely Combination: How Wire EDM Opens Up New Possibilities in Grinding Michael Klotz, Project Manager Development at STUDER, a company of the United Grinding Group
3:15 - 4:10 P.M.
IMTS13 Room W192-A pro micron Process Innovations: Sensory Perception – Emerging Sensory Technology for Machining Lowers Cost, Improves Part Quality, and Produces More Consistent and Stable Process Hubertus von Zastrow, President Jon Boring, Machining Process Specialist
IMTS14 Room W192-B FANUC America Corp. Automation: Virtual Vision Guided Robotics David Bruce, Engineering Manager/Material Handling Group
IMTS15 Room W192-C Iscar Process Innovations: From Idea to Recycling – A Cutting Tool Management Process Tom Raun, National Product Manager – Milling Products
*Speakers, topics, times, and rooms are all subject to change.
TUESDAY 9/13/16
REGISTRATION - 8:00 - 8:55 A.M.
9:00 - 9:55 A.M.
IMTS16 Room W192-A Widia Process Innovations: Optimization of Manufacturing Processes Vinay Singh, Engineer
IMTS17 Room W192-B National Institute of Standards and Technology Automation: Data Infrasturcture and Management for the Digital Thread in Manufacturing Moneer Helu, Mechanical Engineer Thomas Hedberg, Jr., Mechanical Engineer
IMTS18 Room W192-C Siemens Industry Inc. Plant Operations: Competency Management and Performance Improvement for the Next Generation Dr Irving A. Brown Ph.D.,Innovations Development Manager Rick McNamara, Product Development Manager
10:00 - 10:55 A.M.
IMTS19 Room W193-A Makino Alternative Manufacturing: Revolution of EDM Machine Technologies for Maximum Productivity for the Next-Generation Workforce Brian Pfluger, EDM Product Line Manager
IMTS20 Room W193-B Optical Gaging Products Quality: The Measurement System Toolbox – Maximizing Dimensional Measurement Efficiencies Tom Groff, North American Sales Manager
IMTS21 Room W194-A WFL-USA Process Innovations: How to Stay Ahead in a Competitive Word with Millturn Technology Ben Baggerly, Sales Manager U.S.
11:00 - 11:55 A.M.
IMTS69 Room W192-A Komet of America Inc. Process Innovations: High Productivity Tapping Cullen Morrison, Business Development Manager, Threading and Milling
IMTS23 Room W192-B RobbJack Corp. Process Innovations: Advances in Cutting Tools and CAD/CAM Systems Mike MacArthur, Vice President of Engineering
IMTS24 Room W192-C Stratasys Direct Manufacturing Alternative Manufacturing: Additive Metals – Identifying Applications for 3D Printings Most Coveted Material Eric Mutchler, Laser Sintering Product Manager
LUNCH BREAK - 12:00 - 1:10 P.M.
1:15 - 2:10 P.M.
IMTS25 Room W193-A Solar Atmospheres Inc. Process Innovations: Low Pressure Vacuum Carburizing and Vacuum Nitriding Tim Steber, Regional Sales Manager
IMTS26 Room W193-B Exact U.S. Cloud Solutions Plant Operations: Small, Lean & Mean: How the Cloud Powers Lean Operations for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers Victoria McCartney, US Director of Customer Success – Cloud Solutions
IMTS27 Room W194-A Hypertherm Inc. Automation: Robotic Programming for High-Mix Applications Chahe Bakmazjian, Business Team Leader – Hypertherm Robotic Software Peter Brahan, Business Team Leader – Hypertherm Automation
2:15 - 3:10 P.M.
IMTS28 Room W192-A Aerotech Inc. Automation: Advanced Contols Features for Challenging Motion Control Problems Joseph Profeta III, Ph.D., Director, Control Systems Group Matthew Davis, Applications Engineering
IMTS29 Room W192-B Methods Machine Tools Inc. Alternative Manufacturing: Integration of 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing (AM) Into Production Benjamin Fisk, General Manager, 3D Additive Manufacturing
IMTS30 Room W192-C MSC Industrial Supply Co. Plant Operations: Employing New Technology to Overcoming the Skills Gap Ryan Esposito, Vice President of Metalworking Producs Jamie Goettler, Director of Metalworking Sales and Business Development
3:15 - 4:10 P.M.
IMTS31 Room W193-A Zeiss Industrial Metrology LLC Quality: Quality Measurement at the Push of a Button David Wick, Manager, Product Management
IMTS32 Room W193-B Horn USA Inc. Process Innovations: Thread Whirling Principles and Advantages Chris Foschaar, Application/Sales Engineer
IMTS33 Room W194-A Sandvik Coromant Automation: Cloud Based Manufacturing and In-Machining Process Quality Control and Feedback Vahid Kalhori, Manager for R&D Intelligent Machining Martin Helgoson, Senior Project Leader and Principal Engineer within Intelligent Machining
*Speakers, topics, times, and rooms are all subject to change.
WEDNESDAY 9/14/16
REGISTRATION - 8:00 - 8:55 A.M.
9:00 - 9:55 A.M.
IMTS34 Room W192-A Schunk Process Innovations: 5-Axis Reach, Part Accessibility vs. Rigidity Yann Ponsard, Sales Support Engineer
IMTS35 Room W192-B ARC Specialties Inc. Automation: 3D Robotic Machining Daniel Allford, President
IMTS36 Room W192-C Forcam Inc. Plant Operations: Smart Factory Using MTConnect: A Case Study at Richards Industries Mohamed Abuali, CEO-Forcam Inc Bill Metz, Vice President of Operations, Richards Industries
10:00 - 10:55 A.M.
IMTS37 Room W193-A System Insights Plant Operations: Designing a Scalable MTConnect Data Architecture William Sobel, Chief Strategy Officer/Co-Founder
IMTS38 Room W193-B Chemetall US Inc. Alternative Manufacturing: Metalworking Fluids – The Whole Perspective Brian Hovik, Manufacturing Engineer/Market Manager Metalworking Fluid
IMTS40 Room W192-A Tebis America Inc. Quality: Reverse Engineering Usage in the Die and Mold World – Dealing with Heavy Mesh Data Sets and How to Beat the Clock with High Quality Surface Data Michael Thiessen, Regional Sales Manager
IMTS41 Room W192-B IcaM Technologies Corp. Automation: Discover Adaptive Post-Processing — The Evolution of Machine Tool Simulation Jean-Nicholas Ruby, Vice President of Technical Marketing and Support Services
IMTS42 Room W192-C Mandelli Sistemi SpA Process Innovations: Smart Controller to Optimize the Machining Processes Marco Colombi, Sales Manager
LUNCH BREAK - 12:00 - 1:10 P.M.
1:15 - 2:10 P.M.
IMTS43 Room W193-A NSK Corp. Plant Operations: Spindle Bearing Health Monitoring: Study of Different Methods for Failure Detection Bimal Nathwani, IBT Engineering Manager Yuu Koiwa, Product Specialist
IMTS44 Room W193-B Siemens AG Automation: Cutting Edge Robot Accuracy – The Key for Machining with Robots Sven Tauchmann, Robotics Technology Manager
IMTS45 Room W194-A DMG MORI USA Alternative Manufacturing: Art of Hybrid Manufacturing –Combining Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing Mike Panzarella, Team Leader, Research & Development
2:15 - 3:10 P.M.
IMTS46 Room W192-A OMAX Corp. Alternative Manufacturing: The Role of Software in Waterjet Machines Carl Olsen, Director of Software Development
IMTS47 Room W192-B UPS Plant Operations: Anticipating and Benefitting from Disruptive Supply Chain Technologies Mark Antonini, UPS Customer Solutions Director, Industrial/Automotive Sector
IMTS48 Room W192-C Seco Tools LLC Process Innovations: Machining Techniques for Difficult Titanium Alloys Don Graham, Manager, Education and Technical Services
3:15 - 4:10 P.M.
IMTS49 Room W193-A Micron/Jakob Antriebstechnik GmbH/GAM Enterprises Plant Operations: Avoiding Collision Damage of Motor Spindles Through an Innovative Motor-Spindle Safety System – MS3 Dr. Arno H. Wörn, Specialist for the Development of Machine Elements, Jakob Antriebstechnik GmbH Gisbert Ledvon, Director of Business Development, GF Machining Solutions Gary Michalek, CEO, GAM Enterprises
IMTS50 Room W193-B Autodesk Automation: Manufacturing in Transition – From Traditional CAD/CAM to Cloud-Based Collaboration Stephen Hooper, Senior Director of Manufacturing Industry Strategy and Business Development
IMTS51 Room W194-A Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Quality: Moving Quality Intelligence Into Manufacturing Machines Joel Martin, Product Manager – Laser Tracker Product Line
*Speakers, topics, times, and rooms are all subject to change.
THURSDAY 9/15/16
REGISTRATION - 8:00 - 8:55 A.M.
9:00 - 9:55 A.M.
IMTS52 Room W192-A MachiningCloud Automation: The Digital Transformation of the Cutting Tool Industry Chuck Mathews, Managing Director & Cloud Evangelist
IMTS53 Room W192-B Optomec Alternative Manufacturing: A Hybrid Approach to Accelerate Adoption of Metal 3D Printing Tom McDonald, Senior Program Manager
IMTS54 Room W192-C KYOCERA SGS Precision Tools Process Innovations: Value at the Spindle: A Winning Supply Chain Strategy Brian Hamil, Product Engineering Manager
10:00 - 10:55 A.M.
IMTS55 Room W193-A Mitsui Seiki USA Inc. Process Innovations: Characteristics of New Hybrid Additive & Subtractive Machine Tool Technology Robb Hudson, Technology & Business Development Manager
IMTS56 Room W193-B Walter Americas Plant Operations: Industry 4.0 and the Future of Manufacturing Florian Böpple, Expert Digital Manufacturing
IMTS57 Room W194-A Castrol - OPTIS Automation: Adaptive Machining for High Precision Fabrication Dr. Radu Pavel Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer
11:00 - 11:55 A.M.
IMTS58 Room W192-A Okuma America Corp. Plant Operations: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): What it is and How to Use it to Make Decisions to Improve Your Business Jim Kosmala, Vice President of Engineering & Technology
IMTS59 Room W192-B Kennametal Automation: Art to Part – How to Use Technology to Go From CAD to Part to YOY Productivity Savings – Practical Examples Thomas Long, Senior Engineering Manager - Virtual Machining & Product Classification
IMTS60 Room W192-C Acoustech Systems LLC Process Innovations: Ultrasonic Assisted Machining-Introducing Intense Vibrations to Enhance Metalworking Matt Short, Technology Leader, Ultrasonics
LUNCH BREAK- 12:00 - 1:10 P.M.
1:15 - 2:10 P.M.
IMTS61 Room W193-A FOBA / Alltec Laser Alternative Manufacturing: Quality of Traceability Contents: Challenges and Solutions Faycal Benayad-Cherif, Business Manager
IMTS62 Room W193-B Mazak Corp. Automation: The Path to IIoT for Connected Machines in a Digital Factory Neil Desrosiers, Application Engineer/Developer/MTConnect Specialist – Mazak Bryce Barnes, Senior Manager of Machine and Robot Segment – Cisco
IMTS63 Room W194-A PRAB Plant Operations: Productivity and Cost Improvement Using a Continuous Improvement Process Toward Scrap and Fluid Management Tim Hanna, Managing Director Ron Chapman, North American Systems Sales
2:15 - 3:10 P.M.
IMTS64 Room W192-A GTI Spindle Technology Plant Operations: Benefits of Predictive Maintenance for Machine Tools, Robotics, and Spindles Thomas Hoenig, President
IMTS65 Room W192-B Norton/Saint-Gobain Process Innovations: Emerging Trends in Grinding of Materials K. Philip Varghese, PhD, Group Leader, Advanced Application Engineering
IMTS66 Room W192-C Prima Power Laserdyne LLC Alternative Manufacturing: Advances in 3D Laser Systems for Increasing Quality and Productivity in Laser Material Processing for Manufacturing Mark Barry, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
3:15 - 4:10 P.M.
IMTS67 Room W193-A Mahr Federal Quality: Wireless Gages Take Data Collection to New Levels George Schuetz, Director Precision Gages
IMTS68 Room W193-B Multicam Process Innovations: Actionable Intelligence – Giving You an Edge Before, During, and After Capital Acquisition Kristofer Scherm, Fabrication Product Manager
IMTS22 Room W194-A Mastercam/CNC Software Inc. Plant Operations: Acquaint,Convince, and Excite: ACE the Next Generation of Manufacturing Meghan Summers West, President, CNC Software Inc.
*Speakers, topics, times, and rooms are all subject to change.
Computational design tool transforms flat materials into 3D shapes
A computational design tool created a pattern of perforations that enabled a flat sheet of copper to form a 3D mask. This tool could be used to explore possibilities of materials that stretch uniformly.
Photo credit: Mina Konakovi
Acomputational design tool can turn a flat sheet of plastic or metal into a complex 3D shape. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, say the tool enables designers to fully and creatively exploit an unusual quality of certain materials – the ability to expand uniformly in two dimensions. A rubber band, by contrast, contracts in one dimension while being stretched in another.
“We’re taking a flat piece of material and giving it the tendency, or even the desire, to bend into a certain 3D shape,” states Keenan Crane, assistant professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon.
In this case, the researchers were making hexagonal cuts into flexible, but not normally stretchable plastic and metal sheets to give them the ability to expand uniformly, up to a point. But the design tool could be useful for a variety of synthetic materials, known as auxetic materials that share the distinctive quality.
The ability to design complex objects from auxetic materials could have a variety of applications in biomechanics, consumer goods, and architecture, says Mark Pauly, professor of computer and communications sciences at EPFL.
Origami-style folding techniques already have helped produce devices such as cardiac stents, which must be maneuvered into the narrowed artery of a heart patient and then expanded to hold the artery open, and solar arrays that unfold after being launched into space. Auxetic materials could be used in similar ways, while also exploiting their additional capabilities.
For instance, bendable sheets can readily form single-curved surfaces, such as cylinders, but auxetic materials can also approximate double-curved surfaces, such as spheres, using only flat pieces.
“Artists and designers have played around with these materials, but ultimately they have been limited by the things they could fashion by hand,” Crane notes. “We wanted to see what you could do if you got computation involved.”
In particular, they worked with Mina Konakovi, a Ph.D. student at EPFL, to use conformal geometry to map the surfaces of auxetic materials. Just as auxetic sheets expand uniformly in two dimensions, conformal geometry studies maps between spaces where lengths uniformly shrink and expand. A key challenge in connecting the two is addressing the harsh, physical reality that real materials can only expand so much, she adds.
Metal and plastic sheets, altered with cuts to lend them auxetic qualities, are convenient materials to explore how to create these complex designs, Crane says. In this study, a series of hexagonal slits were cut into the sheets to create triangular elements that were able to rotate relative to their neighbors, allowing them to expand uniformly.
Based on a 3D digital model, the computational tool can determine the pattern of slits necessary to make the sheet conform to the desired shape. This pattern can then be transferred to a laser cutter to begin the fabrication process. The researchers used this process to make a woman’s high-heel shoe, a sculpture, a woman’s fashion top, a lampshade, and face masks.
For now, determining just how to bend the laser-cut sheet to achieve the 3D shape is a little tricky, Crane acknowledges. To form a mask, for instance, the perforated sheet was placed over a cast of the face and pressed into position. The ultimate solution, not addressed in this early study, would be to use materials that would automatically pop into position.
The National Science Foundation and the Swiss National Science Foundation sponsored this research.
