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BUSINESS NEWS

Hypertherm cartridge for operation serves to help some benefits of the cartridge cutting products used by
Powermax systems will last fabricators address many consumable platform, such companies around the world
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up to twice as long and deliver of the toughest challenges as faster change-outs, easier to build ships, airplanes,
cleaner cuts versus traditional they face by eliminating ordering and inventory and railcars, construct steel
consumables. The cartridge operator errors, downtime, tracking, longer life, and buildings, manufacture heavy
can even track data, like starts troubleshooting, waste, and improved cut quality. equipment, and more. Its
and arc-on time, to identify training time, while offering The Powermax SYNC series products include cutting
trends and make a user’s the same industry leading was unveiled at the 2021 systems, CNCs, and software
operation more efficient. reliability all Powermax FABTECH Show in Chicago. trusted for performance
“The Powermax SYNC systems are known for.” Hypertherm will begin and reliability that result in
series delivers incredible ease In keeping with shipping systems to partners increased productivity and
of use, a lower operating cost, Hypertherm’s commitment in Asia, Australia, and New profitability for hundreds of
and better performance than to offer technology updates Zealand, as well as South and thousands of businesses.
any other air plasma before to owners of its older plasma Central America on October Founded in 1968 and
it,” said Erik Brine, General systems, Hypertherm 18. Global shipments begin on based in New Hampshire,
Manager of Hypertherm’s engineers have developed January 17. Please visit www. Hypertherm is a 100 percent
Powermax team. “We are an adapter for Duramax hypertherm.com to learn more Associate owned company,
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excited to introduce what is and Duramax Lock torches. about Powermax SYNC and employing more than 1,800
truly a groundbreaking new This will enable owners of watch the unveiling event. Associates, with operations
product to the fabrication the Powermax45 XP and Hypertherm engineers and partner representation
industry. This simplified Powermax65/85/105 to enjoy and manufactures industrial worldwide.

Cyient expands its Digital Solutions portfolio for the

Aerospace industry with PPAP4Aero

Cyient, a global engineering, manufactur- tomer-specific requirements. It provides
ing, digital transformation, and technology spreadsheet-like functionality without all
solutions company, announced details for the known problems with spreadsheets
its global AS9145 Supplier PPAP platform process used to determine whether a pro- due to the robust database engine driving
offering for aerospace use. AS9145 estab- duction run will produce parts with con- the application. This is digital at its best as
lishes the requirements for performing and sistency and repeatability, both internally it focuses on solving a critical pain point by
documenting the Production Part Approval and with suppliers. Cyient will provide the leveraging technologies that aid the pro-
Process (PPAP) and solves a business infrastructure to connect over 25,000 sup- cess in a simple manner. Most importantly,
problem caused by using spreadsheets pliers in over 50 countries, with a multilin- when a supplier problem occurs, supplier
to manage this critical part risk reduction gual application integrated with OEMs and quality engineers will have quick access
process. prime aerospace companies. The platform to reliable PFMEA information about risk
Underscoring the company’s continued will meet or exceed the highest security planning and controls, and improve correc-
investment and commitment to solving standards of international regulations and tive actions taken to prevent recurrence of
business problems using digital technolo- the protection of data. supplier problems.”
gies, announcement provides more details “Cyient is investing in the initial costs, Cyient is in conversations with several
on the vision and deployment for this new including software hosting, support, and OEMs and prime aerospace companies
aerospace offering by Cyient’s IntelliCy- integration,” indicated John M. Cachat, the about early adopter incentives for reducing
ient solutions portfolio. Cyient’s roster of Project Advisor. “The PPAP Aerospace integration costs, custom workflows and
aerospace customers includes the most Compliance Framework benefits suppliers approvals, and reporting and analytics that
advanced aerospace companies globally. by consolidating various customer portals are not possible in the current spreadsheet
AS9145 establishes requirements for into one “login” for each supplier. The environment. Cyient has selected the
performing and documenting the Produc- portal provides a common internal PPAP Microsoft Power Platform as the tool to
tion Part Approval Process (PPAP). PPAP process that quickly changes form labels, create these features rapidly.
is a risk classification, and qualification column locations, and more to match cus-

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