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If you think that you will just sit back and relax when you have a CNC machine in your shop, think again. CNC may help you speed up your operations and even make them more efficient. However, CNC is not an autonomous robot which will make you disregard all your employees and expect your shop to run on auto-pilot.Though you will need more people without the CNC technology, you will need only three very, very skilled people. Call these people your friends, your team, whatever. In the long run, they might be just all you need to keep the shop in...

The normal business mans mind is always geared towards profit, profit, profit. No matter how much the company spends, at the end of the day, the revenues should exceed the expenses (including tax). Although innovation is a major requirement to a business' growth, many small-time businesses just lie back in comfort. They think that as long as they're earning and they have a steady market, it is all right.This holds true for businessmen who are contented with being small-time (though it's hard to find one). However, for businesses that are aggressive towards getting ahead, acquiring a CNC machine seems to...

Manufacturing anything that requires exact measurements requires cutting edge precision and nimbleness from the worker. Most of the time manufacturing these kinds of products requires weeks or months to finish therefore slowing down productivity as well as consistency of the manufacturers.Computer Numerical Control or more commonly called as CNC’s are the new trend in machine shop manufacturing and practice. Any manufacturing environment owns one or is basically acquainted to this kind of device because of its capability to increase productivity as well as consistency on the products being produced.Benchmarked from Numerical Control (NC) during the late 50’s, Computer Numerical Control...

The advent of Computers lessened the need for human intervention in almost all aspects of our daily lives. This is especially true in the industrial sector now that production is virtually automated. Precision and accuracyComputer numerical control has been able to help companies in terms of precision. With the need for more complex designs and more complex operations, human workers cannot consistently produce the level of precision required from the design. CNC machines are able to accurately and consistently produce that same design by allowing increased precision and lesser error ratios with regards to production. The CNC machine must be calibrated with a tramming...

A tap socket set will let you cut new threads in bolt holes and bolt ends on repair jobs. Tap sockets are great for jobs on handrails with broken bolts, or garden furniture with missing hardware. You'll be able to fix them up just like new. Choose the right tap socket set and your threaded-holes will be retrofitted for instant repairs. There’s no better feeling in your workshop than successfully creating a new thread in metal — whether it’s on the bolt-hole or the bolt itself. But without a tap press, you may have had to do what most people...