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E V E NT C O N N E CT S H I G H S C H O O L G I R L S TO
WOMEN IN MANUFACTURING
"Women are overlooking these jobs, and these
jobs are overlooking women," says Debby Coombs,
director of industry partnerships at Partners for
a Competitive Workforce (PCW), in a report from
one of our newest editors, Julia Hider. She had
the chance to at tend the Women Leaders in
Manufacturing Summit recently, headed by PCW
and GE Aviation to bring female high school
students into contact with women leaders in
manufacturing. Read more about the summit and
the effort to meet projected skilled worker deficits
by way of addressing manufacturing's gender
deficit: short.mmsonline.com/women .
VIDEO: HIGH PRODUCTION RATE ON VMCS USING
ROBOTIC AUTOMATION
At a recent open house event hosted by Methods
Machine Tools, Editor-in-Chief Peter Zelinski
learned that as little as 35 percent of available
machine time is actual in-cycle machining time
on standard machining centers, even in high-
productivity operations. Methods demonstrated
an extreme solution shoring up this situation with
a so-called "twin cell" approach, taking off machine
doors and joining up two robots to load and unload
parts on two VMCs. Find a video of what he saw
at short.mmsonline.com/twincell .
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Image courtesy of GE Aviation.