If computer numerical control (CNC) equipment was developed to enhance the performance of machine tools, then why have manual machines survived -- and continue to thrive? In fact some job shop owners ...

Some Jobs Just Can't Be Done Efficiently Any Other Way. Big, heavy and usually involving only one or two parts describes the manual jobs at Parker Machine works. Onesy-twosy manual jobs at Sterling ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE James Disney, who sold his CNC machines to ...

An email from a reader implied the question of whether anyone who continues to use manual machine tools is making money. The author, Jim Ream, owner of QMS Inc. in Glasgow, Ky., has a six-man job shop ...

MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY. FRANK A. SCOTT, a Clevelander at the forefront of the machine tool industry during the early 1900s, once remarked that no metal could be available for modern uses until a ...