Making precision parts is serious business, business that demands constant attention to critical details – attention to schedules, to standards, to systems and technologies for designing, programming, cutting, turning, and all the intermediate and supplemental steps and procedures. There is a steady flow of new technology and product releases, updates and improvements that machine operators, programmers and shop owners and managers must know about. Here’s the list that caught our eyes this week for setting up, cutting, turning, grinding, inspecting, and so on.
Robert Brooks has been a business-to-business reporter, writer, editor, and columnist for more than 20 years, specializing in the primary metal and basic manufacturing industries.