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The company’s big mission at RAPID this year was to give attendees a closer look at some of the main customer applications of the office-friendly Studio System, and how it offers these customers more design freedom, in addition to major cost and speed savings.

Terry Sr.’s company spawned others as former apprentices set up their own businesses and other entrepreneurs adopted Terry’s techniques and mimicked his designs. The success of Terry’s shelf clocks was a magnet: The nearby town of Bristol became the clock capital of the world, with nearly 300 different clock brands produced there in the 19th century.

Allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with drug companies is an approach widely endorsed by Democrats and, historically, Republicans. It has bipartisan support of 92 percent among Americans. It was also endorsed in a recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Trump administration made a partial gesture in this direction last year, announcing that it would allow Medicare Advantage plans (those paid for by the government but administered by private insurance companies) to negotiate prices with drug companies. But the administration has not pursued negotiation on behalf of the the much larger Medicare pool, despite Trump’s branding as an advocate of deal making. A bill allowing such negotiations was introduced by Democrats again in February but remains unheard.

Additionally, in an atmosphere that thrives on exploration, portfolios increasingly feature designer fancies to try out and mimic directions and techniques of their own volition. It’s reinforcement of the ever-important freedom to create, and the practice adds to designerly chops, yet I must admit it can throw off the ability to evaluate the true direction of paid work. Especially when this unpaid, extracurricular work finds itself straying too close to its inspiration for comfort.

The results are manifest in a wide range of CNC milling issues often attributed to other causes: vibration and chatter, poor tolerances, non-repeatability, poor finishes, shortened tool life, excessive spindle wear, run-out, and shallow depths of cuts.

Just as JTEKT Toyoda is addressing the shortage of skilled machinists with more intuitive control software, Rollomatic Inc., Mundelein, Ill., is working to make machine setups both easier and faster. That’s because most tool and cutter manufacturers are no different than any metal cutting job shop; they are faced with smaller batch sizes and shorter lead times, making setup time a larger percentage of any production run. One part of the solution? Better software.

The Stratolaunch aircraft mobile launch platform is designed to provide convenient, affordable, and routine access to space. The reinforced center wing can support multiple launch vehicles weighing up to 500,000 lb.

Photographer Feodor Pitcairn ventured through serene and volatile landscapes to piece together a geological portrait of Iceland.

• Astrobotic of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been awarded $79.5 million and has proposed to fly as many as 14 payloads to Lacus Mortis, a large crater on the near side of the moon, by July 2021.

Another year older, but the logo design industry shows no signs of old age. Like an unruly kid ripping through a stack of unopened presents, I eagerly dive into each annual report knowing an experience awaits. Sometimes it’s the gratification of what I’d hoped for, and the delightful surprise of unanticipated genius. Occasionally, it’s more analogous to underwear and socks, and I encounter the mundane or, rarely, the disappointing. Nevertheless, it’s evidence of industry vitality, and it’s all a gift.

With 5-axis machining it is important to understand pivot points or axis of rotation. These machines have two axes that rotate around one another, often the A axis and C axis, and to machine correctly it is essential to know where the pivot point or axis of rotation is with respect to each other. If it is unknown or there is an error, that error will become part of the component. Using an on-machine probe will help the operator identify if there is an error, which he or she can then compensate for.

“Since our simulation is internal, the user doesn’t need multiple tool and machine libraries,” Thiessen explained. “It can check every single move inside the machine so it’s more than just standard collision avoidance checking. It allows the user to figure out what kind of tool is needed, how long it needs to be, what angle it should be positioned at, and how to perform other planning and optimization functions. He can load this job inside the virtual machine and then quickly perform his collision avoidance checking. [It] is visually simulated on the screen in front of him. The time and accuracy advantages are obvious.”