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Mike Lynch Founder and President
The Final CNC Tech Talk Column
Mike Lynch signs off on his CNC Tech Talk column after 35 years.
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3 Task Simplifications That Reduce Production Time
A little ingenuity goes a long way toward improving machine utilization.
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2 Secondary Coordinate Systems You Should Know
Coordinate systems tell a CNC machine where to position the cutting tool during the program’s execution for any purpose that requires the cutting tool to move.
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2 Applications When Using Incremental Mode is Better
Incremental mode can be more advantageous when programming sculptured surfaces or for certain hole-machining canned cycle applications.
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4 Commonly Misapplied CNC Features
Misapplication of these important CNC features will result in wasted time, wasted or duplicated effort and/or wasted material.
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A User-Created Canned Cycle for Porting Tools
FANUC’s version of parametric programming, Custom Macro, enables you to create your own canned cycles tailored to whatever the application requires.
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Strange But True: Odd Things That Happen With CNCs
These oddities in the way a CNC naturally behaves can help explain some rather unusual situations that may occur during machining.
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Obscure CNC Features That Can Help (or Hurt) You
You cannot begin to take advantage of an available feature if you do not know it exists. Conversely, you will not know how to avoid CNC features that may be detrimental to your process.
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4 Reasons to Use Safety Commands
Safety commands help safeguard CNC applications from common programming or operation errors.
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6 Variations That Kill Productivity
The act of qualifying CNC programs is largely related to eliminating variations, which can be a daunting task when you consider how many things can change from one time a job is run to the next.
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6 Ways to Streamline the Setup Process
The primary goal of a setup reduction program must be to keep setup people working at the machine during the entire setup process.
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Automatic Sizing Adjustments for High-Volume Lathe Work
Keeping operators from having to manually make sizing adjustments will free them up to do other things for as long as each finishing tool will last, regardless of how many sizing adjustments it requires.
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