Machine uniformity provides easier training.

There are certain moot points that come with stocking an EDM jobshop with different machines, according to Don Zoubek, co-founder of Automated, a Minneapolis-based company. Automated emphasizes high-precision tooling constitutings and special engineered projects, and its clients are in the medical, defense consumer serviceables and special-equipment industries as well as all of the tooling disciplines.
"In the past, I've seen stores with four different types of controller upon its machines. To bring some one into the organization and train them upon four different controllers is