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CNC Grinder with Extended X, Y Axes, Plus 10 More New Ideas

June 15, 2016
Machine shops need new ideas, and new technologies to keep them engaged, aware, active, and competitive — and improving their performance. Here are 11 product ideas we discovered this week to make machining, shop management, tooling, and quality control more effective and productive.

If you operate a machine shop — or any manufacturing operation with a focus on machining, and all the surrounding process technologies like product and process design, troubleshooting, CAM programming, tool design and selection, quality control, etc. — you face a steady flow of new technology and products, updates and improvements intended to address the large and small, general and arcane details that concern machine operators, programmers and shop owners and managers. Here’s a list of the 10 ideas for setting up, programming, cutting, turning, grinding, tool selection, and so on … 

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Robert Brooks | Content Director

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.