Chapter 15
Ten Terrific Tools, Tips, and Technologies
IN THIS CHAPTER
Printing parts
Downloading (big) data
Automating everything
Combining machining functions
Getting lighter and going smaller
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
—THOMAS A. EDISON
Like most aspects of modern life, manufacturing has become quite high-tech. Machine tools that were dumber than hand-push lawn mowers (remember them?) during the last century are now smart enough to self-adjust their own operating parameters, grab a fresh tool when the old one’s getting dull, or wake you from a sound night’s sleep if they think there’s a problem.
Robots work alongside us, slowing or stopping if we get too close, while sending information about their health and working conditions to servers thousands of miles away. Even cutting tools are getting in on the game, able to sense and automatically correct for undesirable machining conditions, in ...
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