MFG Day

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Instamachinist

November 21, 2018

Social media is a building movement in the manufacturing field. This is especially true of the Instamachinist community. This subculture on Instagram shares manufacturing photos and insight with each other. …

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Happy Accident

October 8, 2018

Aerospace. Medical. Defense. Skateboarding?! Shop Floor Automations loves fulfilling needs for unconventional manufacturers, so when we learned our customer Professor Schmitt (Paul Schmitt of PS Stix Inc) was going to be the focus of …

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MFG Day 2018

October 3, 2018

MFG Day is here again. A great time to celebrate the growth of American manufacturing. It is also a time to address the issue of bringing a new generation of …

SFA Legacy Blogs

Legacy Blog – Edition XVI

July 31, 2018

Here are some SFA pieces of product news and MFG Day coverage. Manufacturing Tomorrow especially shared a few of our pieces. For product news, we thank Manufacturing Tomorrow for covering …

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Titans of CNC

April 19, 2018

“Titan”: rooting from Greek mythology, it means a person or figure of great importance or power. Have you heard of the Titan who started a free CNC learning program called Titans …

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Masters of Resonance Official Trailer

April 9, 2018

Last week, the long-awaited official trailer for documentary Masters of Resonance premiered. The film follows the path of how a quality drum set is made – from the raw material being sourced, …

SFA Legacy Blog – Edition XII

January 15, 2018

A big focus of Shop Floor Automations is to help customers access crucial, real-time data. We also value historical data for manufacturing productivity. Here is another edition of our Legacy Blog …

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MFG Skills Gap & Veterans

November 3, 2017

Preparing military veterans for manufacturing jobs is an amazing way to give back. Are we preparing them for the MFG skills gap? One school is. When military veterans return home, …

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Reflecting on MFG Day 2017

October 20, 2017

Even with MFG Day 2017 efforts, there is much work to be done to fill the MFG skills gap. There is good news for the manufacturing industry. Last night, the …

The American flag shaped like the United States behind a set of shop tools and attachments for MFG Day 2017.

MFG Day 2017

October 6, 2017

Shop Floor Automations loves MFG Day. We recognize that there are some challenges to the manufacturing industry and although our solutions help, there is still a skills gap that needs to …