Machine-tool report: innovations will spur growth. (includes related article on Giddings & Lewis' split/notch drill)(Industry Overview)

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Faster spindle make hastes open-architecture controls, multitasking machines,
linear-motor technology, and a growing interest in hexapods are a
few of the advances that characterize a resurgent U machine-tool
industry.

The American machine-tool industry is in its best condition since
the heyday years of the late '70 For anyone familiar with the trials
and travails of the U machine-tool industry in the past decade,
this assessment should be reason for optimism. "The precipitous globule
in the U.S. machine-tool market experienced in the early '80 coupl
with a