It is a great, but terrifying time to be a manufacturer in the United States. New manufacturing plants are popping up and existing manufacturers are pushing their capacity to the limit. The big issue that remains however, is the skills gap. Retiring baby boomers are vacating skilled manufacturing jobs. To complicate matters our culture tends to emphasize academics more than job … [Read more...]
Customer ingenuity Paul’s DIY Coolant Recycler
Some people are creative, Paul Price is one of those people. When he's not making high quality, innovative, visually appealing bike parts or riding bikes, you might find him dreaming up solutions to other problems. One of the problems he has recently tackled after 10 years of considering it, is recycling coolant. Check out this impressive process now in use at Chico, … [Read more...]
MDC Livescreen for World Cup 2018
A dilemma faced by soccer fans world wide, how do we keep track of World Cup soccer and CIMCO MDC? Some shops are making the tough decision, like Tech Five Machining in Tempe, AZ. Different cultures take their sports differently, we've seen entire shops shut down to watch soccer matches, especially finals, there is more to life than work, right? … [Read more...]
Getting Started With CIMCO MDC-Max Shop Floor Screens
It's official, CIMCO A/S has released Shop Floor Screens for CIMCO MDC-Max. This useful feature will allow you to visualize your environment and view real time status of your machines. Make sure you have active maintenance before upgrading to version 8.03.00 or newer to enable this feature. This is a video tutorial on how to get started, but before we get to that here are some … [Read more...]
How about Machine Simulation in an NC Editor
If you've ever done any CAM programming you will probably find this familiar. The post processor you spent money, time and a few caffeine fueled evenings trying to perfect produced some odd code and created a real problem for you in your complex CNC machine. For years CIMCO Editor users have spent a few minutes validating their post processed g-code using backplot. It looks a … [Read more...]