Video: Five Top Shops Technologies
Learn about a handful of advanced machining technologies that leading U.S. shops are using to their advantage.
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This year marks the sixth edition of our Top Shops benchmarking survey. As a result, we’ve been able to identify trends in terms of the types of machining technologies and practices that leading shops are leveraging to their advantage. In this video, I highlight five: five-axis machining, on-machine probing, ERP systems, robotic loading and cutting tool vending systems.
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