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IMTS 2018
Explore New Controls
at IMTS to Move Ahead
The comfort of scrapping multiple parts to refine a program is a miss out at the Job shops. One of their chief
aims remain that the first part should be good part, but achieving this goal has become a bigger challenge
and a major reason behind this is that designers have increased part complexity to take advantage of
expanding machine capabilities.
T
he International Manufacturing
Technology Show - IMTS 2018
– going to be held from Sept 10
– 15 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, is
one of the most premier resources for
connecting with control and software
providers. A plethora of technological
offerings can be explored at the
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show by the visitors, not only in the
Controls and CAD-CAM Pavilion, but
also in the Additive Manufacturing,
Quality Assurance, Metal Cutting and
Fabricating & Lasers Pavilions, as well as
HANNOVER MESSE USA.
While elaborating about the state-of-
the-art technologies to be showcased
at the IMTS 2018, Gisbert Ledvon,
TNC Business Development Manager,
Heidenhain Corporation says, “Job shops
have to keep pace with new control
technology to keep scrape rates low.
Continuing to use out of date controls
for complex parts is like Einstein’s
definition of insanity. If one anticipates