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Mike Lynch’s monthly column, “CNC Tech Talk,” has appeared in Modern Machine Shop magazine since 1990.
Maintaining a constant feed rate between linear and circular milling easily leads to chatter — for most applications, increase feed rate on external arcs and decrease it for internal.
The position of CNC operator requires certain basic skills and abilities. Mike Lynch, a noted MMS columnist, offers his insights into the bare minimum for effectiveness in this important job.
Precisely placing jaws on three-jaw chucks for CNC turning machines is difficult, but a laser pointer and clever programming can ease the issue.
CNC users can program custom macros and T codes to ensure cutting tools are the proper length for tool length compensation in machining centers.
Spend enough time on the shop floor and you will see some of the same mistakes time and again.
Spreadsheet software can behave like a CAM system.
Learn how to select the appropriate spindle range and ensure that your CNC machining center or turning center is running an optimized cycle.
Operator safety is the most important consideration when improving CNC machine utilization.
FANUC now enables CNC users to reference custom macro system variables by names in addition to hard-to-remember numbers. Here’s how.
