Topic Track: Process Innovations Session Topic: Achieving Maximum Productivity by Addressing the Weakest Link – Your Connection
How do we solve the most difficult challenge in manufacturing and maximize productivity?
This session will discuss case studies, all of which started with the end-result in mind, and applied end-to-end thinking from the machine connection to the cutting edge.
Key takeaways:
How it all needs to work together – machine, spindle connection, cutting-edge solution
How to work with machine tool partners to select the right machine for the job, for the future
How to ensure you don’t settle for what you have always had
The latest process innovations enabled by the market’s strongest connection
Kennametal delivers productivity to customers seeking peak performance in demanding environments by providing innovative custom and standard wear-resistant solutions. This proven productivity is enabled through their advanced materials sciences and application knowledge.
Topic Track: Plant Operations Session Topic: Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) – Benefits and Lessons Learned for Production Implementation
The seven wastes are a fundamental part of lean manufacturing. Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is an environmentally and worker friendly means of reducing these wastes. MQL has been widely adopted in the automotive and aerospace industries with remarkable results. In automotive production it permits moving manufacturing cells closer together, reducing movement, and transporting waste. Additional benefits include reduced workforce exposure to mists, smaller cell footprints, reduced cycle times, lower variable costs, and reduced energy and water use. This can result in a 15% lifecycle cost reduction compared to conventional high-volume water-based coolant. Furthermore, inappropriate processing waste can be greatly reduced. One plant halved the energy needed to produce diesel engines and cut water requirements by 99.8%.
Many manufacturers could benefit from implementing MQL in their operation, but they often do not know where or how to start. This session will share experience and knowledge of what is needed to implement MQL in CNC machines:
MQL overview: Definition, advantages, types
Materials & operations: What does, doesn’t work
What Is Needed: Walk through the system explaining what is needed and what is desirable, from the applicator down through spindle and through the tool
Other process considerations
Safety
Tooling
Oils effects
Dimensional control
Air and chip handling
Unist has been manufacturing minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) solutions for metal cutting since 1957. The company provides solutions that save money in manufacturing processes by reducing the amount of fluids consumed. The consistent application of minimum quantities of fluid improves process efficiency, reduces waste, and is friendly to the environment.
Topic Track: Quality Session topic: Industry 4.0 and Model-Based
Enterprise for Quality Assurance – Inspection
Efficiencies, Design Inputs, and Manufacturing Outputs The Industry 4.0 roadmap helps us visualize the path toward a complete digital enterprise, as model-based enterprises (MBE) use today’s 3D CAD models to contain and provide rich content information to create, connect, and fully track relevant information for a part through its entire life cycle.
MBE can contain product and manufacturing information (PMI) including design intent, specifications, tolerances, toolpaths, and reporting standards. It provides interoperability, standardized methods and processes, and information efficiencies across design, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality assurance for a worldwide factory network.
This presentation will focus on one portion of this continuum – quality assurance, and its neighboring disciplines, and will explore the following:
What design intent information resides within a MBE CAD model that can promote quality assurance efficiency and correctness?
How can inspection machines use PMI and MBE for automatic programming to minimize machine downtime and maximize inspection throughput?
How can quality assurance output data improve, define, and control manufacturing methods?
How does quality assurance use data organization and standardized reporting methods in a model to provide results in an annotated and organized manner – usable in a common form by all disciplines in the product life cycle? Get these questions answered and begin to understand today’s best practices in quality assurance and cross-discipline part inspection methods.
OGP offers precision video and multi-sensor coordinate measuring systems for dimensional inspection, designed and manufactured at our corporate headquarters in Rochester, New York. We have more than 70 years of industry experience, making the products that fit a range of categories including; multi-sensor metrology, optical inspection, video measurement, laser scanning, and more.
There is a lot more to justifying a capital investment than the purchase price of a machine tool. Many other factors have a big impact on the effectiveness and profitability of a new machine.
This presentation will demonstrate how to accurately justify making an investment in new equipment to yield the lowest piece-cost. To make a wise investment one must understand the costs involved, the tangible and intangible benefits, the cost of not making the investment, and how to calculate the payback.
Index Corp. is the North American subsidiary of the Index Group, one of the world’s leading providers of CNC turning machines. Via the Index and Traub brands, we offer standard-setting Swiss, production, multi-tasking, and multi-spindle CNC machines that perform multiple high precision operations in a single setup with rapid changeover and zero handling.
Our team works closely with manufacturers of precision turned parts to determine the best solutions for their part mix and production requirements. We take an active role in the implementation of the machines to ensure optimal performance from day one. This results in our customers achieving a strong ROI and persistent competitive advantage.
Index introduced the first CNC multi-spindle machine and remains the world’s largest producer of these highly productive machines. Globally, we provide more than 50% of all CNC multi-spindle machines, which are used to annually produce millions of high-precision parts for the medical, aerospace, automotive, and fluid power industries.
Traub Swiss-type machines offer an optimum mix of flexibility, speed and accuracy to producers of precision parts. The TNL line of fixed/sliding headstock machines features a variety of options including a B axis, capacity to accommodate up to 52 tools, and quick convertibility between fixed and sliding headstock operation.
Index Corp.’s 65,000ft2 U.S. headquarters in Noblesville, Indiana, includes application engineering, turnkey solution development, parts and service support, and a machine demonstration and training center. The Index Group employs more than 3,000 people and is present around the world with 5 production sites, 5 international sales and service companies, and 80 representative offices.
in 3D Printing Process Chain Since the first pioneering companies have been able to shape metal powders by means of 3D printing or melting, more companies want to supplement their conventional production processes with additive methods. How quickly and comprehensively additive manufacturing (AM) of metal parts will be established depends, to a large extent, on the yield.
The 3D printing industry is far from guaranteeing the high reproducibility and reliability known from traditional manufacturing processes. AM has only a fraction of the combined know-how of conventional subtractive methods. Therefore, it requires a lot of investigation within every step of the process chain to enable optimal part printing. Gaining this process knowledge might take several years, but the number of iteration loops can be significantly reduced with detailed analysis of materials and processes. It takes significant experience combined with unique technology to allow for a deeper understanding and detailed monitoring of most process steps, such as material powder characterization, i. e., powder size, form, as well as distribution and compactness analysis, crystallographic analysis, build defects, internal and external surface analysis, internal and external dimensional analysis, and the influence of post-build treatments, such as heat treatment. Each step can have a significant impact on the overall yield, therefore, correlating information throughout the process significantly improves overall part performance and reduces optimal recipe development time.
Zeiss is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the optics and optoelectronics industries. The Industrial Metrology business group is a leader in CNC coordinate measuring machines and complete solutions for multidimensional metrology in the metrology lab and production. The Microscopy business group is the world’s only one-stop manufacturer of light, X-ray, and electron microscope systems with a portfolio that includes solutions for materials research and industry.
