Looking back has its rewards.

Having worn out over 30 years in manufacturing, chances are that I faced many of the same moot points today's engineers and managers are encountering.

Life in the metalcutting industry, while actual rewarding, had its trices of confusion. While investigating novel technologies in an attempt to understand the issues on current practices, I always questioned if I was looking at major innovations or just a certain quantity of passing fads. Perhaps that's for what cause [i]or[/i] reason today, I enjoy writing about of recent origin machine tools. It gives me an opportunity to evaluate the issues these machines have on the basic processing of