Armin Gruenewald
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The Digital Machine Shop: Making an Idea Go Airborne

June 7, 2021

Welcome to a new weekly blog series designed to show you how the concept of a Digital Machine Shop plays…

By Armin Gruenewald
4 MIN READ

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #9 CMM Inspection and Programming

June 1, 2017

In the next video, I will explain how a machine is programmed with our NX CMM tool. From my experience,  the quality department is somehow disconnected. This is a process to try afterward, to fi…

By Armin Gruenewald
2 MIN READ

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #8 Additive Manufacturing

May 25, 2017

3D printing started over 20 years ago but it was limited to soft material and plastic material.  What has changed in the past few years is that printers are getting cheaper.  Now everybody …

By Armin Gruenewald
3 MIN READ

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #7 The emergence of robots

May 15, 2017

Robots are getting cheaper and cheaper. Robots are not as accurate as a traditional machine tool but it has almost unlimited machining space. You can put a machine on a crane upside down, you can put…

By Armin Gruenewald
< 1 MIN READ

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #6 Access the digital twin from the shop floor

May 4, 2017

The digital twin is a concept about how to map the digital world with the physical world. If you remember on the CAM side, we didn’t want to go only for the CAM.  We need to add the whole simula…

By Armin Gruenewald
2 MIN READ

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #5 Tool management and set up

April 24, 2017

Let’s talk about tool management and tool planning on the shop floor.

In tool management, we have two different worlds.  We have the planning side in the CAM room.  In the planni…

By Armin Gruenewald
< 1 MIN READ

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #4 Process planning with a digital twin

April 12, 2017

Some people call the process planning department, the CAM room, but we are not talking about computer-aided design only. CAM is a very important component but not the whole thing.  If you want t…

By Armin Gruenewald
2 MIN READ

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #3 – Tool design with new technologies

April 3, 2017

In this blog I’ll tell you about Siemens’ Mold Design software which enables an automated process in which the application helps us to redesign the set-up for the mold.

To see the example,…

By Armin Gruenewald
< 1 MIN READ

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #2 – The importance of new technologies

March 22, 2017

I would like to share more with you about our concept of the digital machine shop.  We all talk about a revolution in the machining space.  We talk about Industry 4.0 – the future of manufa…

By Armin Gruenewald
2 MIN READ