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Check out this video from Macomb Community College. See what you can learn in a great manufacturing education program! This kind of...

Quality control is essential in all industries, whether for parts, processes, products, equipment, or machines. Manufacturers are...

by Amber Barlow Photo Credit: Pexels Computer programs form the backbone of modern life, powering everything from Internet browsing to...

Thank you to Peter Jacobs of CNC Masters for submitting this great set of suggestions for reducing tool pressure. Every CNC machinist...

Submitted by Orderfox Traditional CNC business models and organizations are currently under threat. The COVID-19 outbreak has made it...

Submitted by Ken Maier Another gift from Ken Maier. Thank you Ken. This quick introduction to AutoCad 2020 gives you a working knowledge...

Written and contributed by Ken Maier. Thank you Ken, for this excellent resource and making it available at no charge. ​ This manual by...

The sequence by which a person performs any task is directly related to the efficiency (and correctness) with which the task is...

Most companies work exclusively in one mode or the other. If the bulk of their prints are dimensioned in inch (as with most companies in...

Tapping tends to be the most error prone and frustrating operation a machining center performs. Depending upon the tap style, the...

Most experienced programmers will agree that horizontal machining centers are among the most difficult metal-cutting CNC machines to...

Unless your Fanuc controlled turning center came with live tooling, it’s likely that you don’t have canned cycles (G80-G89) like those...

The people you have working for you contribute the most to your success. Without good, knowledgeable people, even the best managers will...

Machining centers, of course, have automatic tool changing devices to automate the tool changing process. Current models boast very fast...

If your company (or department within your company) has several CNC machine tools, it's likely that machines are regularly down while...

As you know, custom macro is a very powerful programming feature that allows you to include computer programming-like commands in a...

This issue's time saver is a rather general suggestion - and it varies with the aptitude level of the people involved. In value added...

Many turning centers, commonly called universal style turning centers, have the ability to do chucking work, bar work, and shaft work....

Parameters control countless things about the way your CNC machine tools behave. In each Parameter preference segment, we will expose...

Two special commands are used in custom macro B to send data out through the communications port (RS-232c port). One called BPRNT allows...