After its first release in Japan back in 2017 FANUC’s Industry 4.0/Internet of Things (IoT) platform now seems ready to enter a new stage (or: new territories). After some delays to the original timeline, at EMO this ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-developing technology and one that Machinery is coming across more and more. Our EMO review feature last issue (p14) and this issue’s cover feature (p10) both reference it.

Andrew Allcock reviews current progress on sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs). Less sexy than the topic of electric aircraft (p9), it is, however, technically the nearer term solution for cleaner air travel

While electric cars are today a reality, albeit we will see many further strides yet in the development of that technology, the aerospace industry has a larger challenge and is still early into its journey. Andrew ...

Andrew Allcock details yet another additive manufacturing process, one that supports both metal and plastic 3D printing. It uses standard metal powder and plastic granules, using the same material for both prototypes ...

Bowman Additive, part of Bowman International, is adding value to the group’s core business of bearing design and supply, innovating via plastic additive manufacturing and replacing what is traditionally a pressed metal ...

It’s all very well there being powerful digital tools available, but people have to know how to use them, often breaking with well-entrenched traditional approaches. Autodesk’s Digital Catalyst programme aims to ...

Previewed at the MACH 2018 exhibition, developing XYZ Machine Tools' Robo-Tend vertical machining centre/lathe automation solution has, it is admitted, been a more challenging task than initially thought. Now available, ...

​For two days in July, Autodesk hosted a London-based edition of Autodesk University.It provided a push to its cloud-hosted design-to-production collaborative software, Fusion 360, which it also expanded; saw its cloud- ...

​Autodesk is a $2.6bn software business that has for a few years been talking about the convergence of design and manufacturing. Rather than separate processes, this sees the two as a single continuous effort. It takes ...

While there are many individual CADCAM brands on the market, behind them are often some of the same software components. Same too for CNC systems. Two companies, the UK’s MachineWorks and Germany’s ModuleWorks, are ...

Andrew Allcock details yet another additive manufacturing process, one that supports both metal and plastic 3D printing. It uses standard metal powder and plastic granules, using the same material for both prototypes ...

Bowman Additive, part of Bowman International, is adding value to the group’s core business of bearing design and supply, innovating via plastic additive manufacturing and replacing what is traditionally a pressed metal ...

”Seen anything interesting?” That’s the question, meaning ‘what’s the buzz here?’ that all journalists ask each other at any major exhibition, most recently at the biennial EMO manufacturing technology show, held last ...

​What started out as an effort focused on making NC programming completely automatic via novel software has turned into one that has highly cost-competitive precision prismatic machining as its end game. And the ...

Why can’t NC programming for subtractive metalcutting be as easy as it is for additive manufacturing? Basically, present a 3D file to a programming system and press ‘go’. Andrew Allcock visited a company that has ...