Open Mind was successful at the Moulding Expo. (Open Mind)
Open Mind

HyperMILL and the conical barrel cutter

Oen Mind Technologies was very pleased with the level of interest of the company's mould and tool making solutions received at the recently held Moulding Expo. Visitors at the trade fair who hadn’t yet heard about the optimisation options available with 5-axis tangent plane machining were able to learn more about this solution at its booth, where a large model of a conical barrel cutter was on exhibit.

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Bernd Jost is the Managing Director of DiIT GmbH in Krailling near Munich. (DiIT GmbH)
Software

Traceability now a must

Manufacturers of wire harnesses will soon be faced with new quality requirements. Find out how using digital twins can ensure vertical and horizontal traceability of products.

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Senior Engineer Alexander Epple from the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) of RWTH Aachen University: “In the aerospace industry, we’ve succeeded in raising productivity by almost 30 per cent, and at one German manufacturer of large machines by nearly 150 per cent.” (WZL)
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The Knowledge of experts will not be obsolete in Industry 4.0

The term industry 4.0 is hyped especially at trade fairs, but the digital transformation is also met with fear among manufacturers and their professionals: will their expertise become obsolete in the age of digitalisation? Alexander Epple and Michael Königs explain, why the knowledge and experience of experts will still be needed in the future.

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