The H-J Family of Companies Success Story
Electrical Components Manufacturer Takes Charge of Mold Making Find flexible, powerful CAD/CAM software to produce tools, molds, and patterns for a line of electrical power transformer components. Quick Facts Product Used: Mill, Productivity+, Dynamic Motion Industry: Transportation Project Details The Challenge: Find flexible, powerful CAD/CAM software to produce tools, molds, and patterns for a line […]
Asnuntuck Community College
Connecticut Manufacturing Program Enjoys Statewide Reach Founded twenty years ago, Asnuntuck Community College’s Advanced Manufacturing Program in Enfield, Connecticut, has become a major source of employees for the state’s many manufacturing companies. With the employer-employee relationship becoming a two-way street for the students, involved manufacturers have been supplying the school with both curriculum basics and […]
Springfield Technical Community College
Springfield Tech Inspires Young Students with Real World Tools Steven Sinkwich, staff assistant at Springfield Technical Community College, hosts a summer camp for 12- to 17-year-olds every year. His goal is to spark an interest within the students in manufacturing not only to create future machinists but to teach the students creativity and independence. Quick […]
Oldenburg Metal Tech, Inc.
Machine Shop Eliminates Programming Step with Mastercam Located in Saukville, Wisconsin, Oldenburg Metal Tech, Inc., specializes in complex, progressive stamping dies. The 25,000 square foot machine shop also produces welding fixtures, production parts, and prototypes for anything from automotive steering brackets and frame components to dental trays. Volumes can run in the hundreds for stamping […]
Northwood Industries
CAM Streamlines Manufacturing Operations Northwood Industries uses Mastercam to consolidate operations so that more can be performed at the machine during a single setup. Quick Facts Product Used: Mill, Lathe, Dynamic Motion Industry: Heavy Industry, Job Shop Project Details The Challenge: Improve manufacturing productivity in order to make precision-machined component parts for customers requiring a quick […]
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
Community College Manufacturing Program Offsets Statewide Skills Deficit Getting young people excited about manufacturing could make the skills gap a thing of the past. Through education, possible biases toward industrial trades can be eliminated. Demonstrating the power and possibilities of CNC machines and CAD/CAM software is an important factor in debunking manufacturing misconceptions and replenishing […]
Universal Technical Institute – NASCAR Tech
Universal Technical Institute, with campuses from coast to coast, has been instrumental in giving countless young men and women the training they need to fill jobs as technicians within the transportation industries. At their campus in Mooresville, North Carolina, fittingly called NASCAR Technical Institute, or NASCAR Tech for short, the school’s move to add CNC […]
Platt Technical High School
Reaching for the Sky at Platt Tech America’s high school metalworking shop classes have been turning out some pretty impressive projects using CAD/CAM software and CNC machine tools, but when it comes to ‘out of this world’ impressions, few can measure up to the ‘heights’ reached by the students at Platt Technical High School in […]
STCC Summer Camp
Professor LaFrancis Helps Students Get Hooked on Manufacturing Much of the struggle in recruiting young people to the manufacturing workforce lies in getting students’ attention. Professor John LaFrancis uses a combination of customizable and creative projects to introduce middle school and high school students to the power and potential of manufacturing. It all takes place […]
UConn Formula SAE
CAD/CAM Software Keeps Racecar Design and Production on Track Students at the University of Connecticut School of Engineering in Storrs, Connecticut, enjoy a host of extracurricular opportunities. Few measure up to the hands-on experience provided by the UConn Formula SAE project. Organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers), the Formula SAE (FSAE) series […]