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Mike Lynch’s monthly column, “CNC Tech Talk,” has appeared in Modern Machine Shop magazine since 1990.
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.
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.
While the mistakes listed here will not sound an alarm or cause a program to fail, they will cause confusion, wasted time and scrap parts.
There are some G-code commands you might want your operators to occasionally execute but not for every cycle. Consider these examples.
