Machinery includes CNC milling, turning, and 5-axis.
Hurco announced MachineTech will be the exclusive distributor of Hurco CNC machines in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and parts of West Virginia.
Cory Miller, general manager of Hurco North America, says, “I know our customers are in good hands with the team at MachineTech. Hurco is fortunate to have a great network of experienced distributors who understand that service after the sale is the primary component to long-term success.”
With 40 years of experience, Rick Smith, founder of MachineTech, has built a family-owned business that’s known for working with customers to provide productive and cost-effective machining solutions. Their sales and engineering support teams are experienced with all aspects of CNC milling, turning, and 5-axis.
“The entire team is very proud to represent Hurco. Our training at their Indianapolis facility further solidified how Hurco’s control technology helps shops succeed,” says Smith. “The flexibility of the control, with NC programming and conversational programming, in addition to a unique feature called NC/Conversational Merge, makes high-mix manufacturing more productive and more profitable. In today’s labor market, ease of use is more important than ever, and as the inventor of conversational programming, Hurco continuously focuses on making sure their control is easy to learn and easy to use.”
Having one control across the entire product line of 70 different machines promotes growth and minimizes confusion, according to Smith. Whether a customer buys a 20 x 16 VM10i mill or a 3-meter DCXi double column machine, they can count on control technology with a straightforward user interface and robust control specifications, such as 10,000 block lookahead and a 128GB solid state hard drive.
The program includes a live demonstration of multiple cyber-attacks common in an industrial environment coupled with actions that manufacturers can take to mitigate these risks.
About the presentation Cybersecurity risks continue to grow as the manufacturing sector advances into the digital age and small and mid-sized manufacturers (SMMs) are particularly at risk. Battling an overload of information about cybersecurity threats and requirements, U.S. manufacturers seek a unified approach to securing the manufacturing sector. MxD’s cybersecurity roadshow dives into deployable tactics that SMMs use to reduce cyber risk in their supply chains. Attendees will be guided through the various cybersecurity standards and frameworks currently in place (such as NIST CSF/DFARS/CMMC) with an emphasis on addressing the unique challenges the manufacturing sector faces when adhering to these standards. The program includes a live demonstration of multiple cyber-attacks common in an industrial environment, coupled with actions that manufacturers can take to mitigate these risks and appropriately respond when they happen.
Meet your presenter Laura Élan is the senior director of cybersecurity for MxD Cyber: The National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing. In her role, she supports MxD’s cybersecurity projects and initiatives in support of the annual strategic investment plan and will lead MxD’s cybersecurity steering committee. Prior to joining MxD in 2021, Élan was responsible for Baxter Healthcare’s regulatory strategy for medical software, cybersecurity, interoperability, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) enabled software. She completed her undergraduate work in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois - Urbana. She holds a Master of Science in electrical engineering and a Master of Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. She’s a licensed professional engineer in the State of Illinois.
About the company MxD is where innovative manufacturers go to forge their futures. In partnership with the Department of Defense, MxD equips U.S. factories with the digital tools, cybersecurity, and workforce expertise needed to begin building every part better than the last. As a result, our more than 300 partners increase their productivity, win more business, and strengthen U.S. manufacturing.
Learn about the digital supply chain.
About the presentation This session provides an overview of the Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services (AWS) supply chains and logistics strategies starting with an overview of the digital supply chain strategy that underlies capabilities. For the Amazon supply chain, the session provides an overview of Amazon’s global operations, automation, and scale of the supply chain, and an overview of Amazon’s fulfillment center strategy including robotics. For the AWS supply chain, the session provides an overview of the complexity of producing and delivering equipment to global data centers. Building on this overview, the session provides guidance of how AWS services can be used to support the operation and forecasting of a digital supply chain.
Meet your presenter Kimberley Hagerty is the head of the Americas SC&L professional services practice for end-to-end manufacturing, supply chain, transportation, and logistics. She’s focused on leading customers across all industries through their digital transformation journey on AWS. Hagerty engages directly with corporate executives and senior military and civilian leaders to address their strategies, missions, goals, business, and technical challenges as a trusted advisor for all things envisioned, aligned, and delivered to her customers. She’s spent the last 10 years defining and deploying large scale manufacturing and supply chain digital transformation strategies for the aerospace, defense, and industrial equipment industries. She’s a recognized industry thought leader and was awarded the coveted Top 50 digital Innovator award by Smart Industries. Hagerty serves on the executive advisory board for Smart Manufacturing. She’s a retired Air Force chief master sergeant with 24 years of leadership experience in all aspects of aircraft maintenance and strategic logistics, joint planning, crisis planning, and strategic planning. She’s led aircraft maintenance organizations of more than 300 personnel. Hagerty has a master’s degree in business management with a minor in strategic consulting and a bachelor’s degree in transportation and logistics.
About the company AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—use AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
The combined organization will reinforce full-service product design and development.
ERI Group, formerly Evergreen Research, and LINK Product Development (LINK) have merged to strengthen their full-service product design and development offerings.
“This is an extremely exciting opportunity for ERI Group and LINK, and we are thrilled to extend our current working relationship with LINK and to bring their team’s excellence and experience into the ERI Group,” says Natasha Bond, president of ERI Group. “The merger of our two organizations and our investment in talent and technology will help us to better meet the growing needs of our clients, allowing us to add early development and industrial design capabilities to our existing depth of capability in mechanical, electrical, software and system engineering, quality, regulatory and manufacturing services.”
As part of the merger, LINK founder, Marc Hanchak, and his team will become part of ERI Group. Hanchak will serve as vice president of product development at ERI Group and continue to oversee industrial design, engineering, project management, and product design.
“The partnership between ERI Group and LINK will allow us to create a full-service company that is focused on innovation and is committed to delivering forward-thinking concepts to market,” says Hanchak. “LINK’s mission to create products that improve people’s lives matches the ERI philosophy of empowering visions for life-changing products. Our shared mission, parallel cultures, and commitment to our clients created the perfect opportunity to join our organizations into a stronger, integrated, and multidisciplinary firm focused on exciting advancements.”
Learn about motion control systems and performance in the real world.
Meet your presenter Art Holzknecht is the engineering manager at HIWIN Corp., a leading global manufacturer of mechatronic components and systems. He has more than 25 years of experience in precision engineering and motion control system development. Over the course of his career, he held roles in engineering design and management, program and product management, and business development. Holzknecht designed and implemented mechatronic solutions for a wide range of industries, including semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, genomics and life sciences, factory automation, and robotics. He holds a BSME from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
About the company HIWIN is a combination of Hi-tech WINner. As you incorporate our product within your applications, you’ll realize the uncompromising value and leading technological advancements available through HIWIN. Beside this, we also take pride in our industry’s acknowledgments of our innovative technology. The principle of providing our customers with greater value through technological advancements and enhanced global competition is the foundation that supports HIWIN’s plan to be the leader in hi-tech industry.