Machine automation isn’t a recent idea. In the 1800s, cam-driven automatic lathes and screw machines were created. In the first half of the 1900s, manufacturing equipment began to use numeric control ...

Do you want to learn how a CNC machine works, but don’t have access to one (yet)? One of our tipsters just informed us of this great project that was created by a team of students from the University ...

In the manufacturing and tech world, CNC stands for Computer Numerical Control. In its earliest days, the technology was used to control simple machines and fabricate useful products out of a variety ...

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 ...

[joekutz] made an impulse purchase of a CNC machine. It was a 3040 CNC that looked reasonably complete and had an attractive price, what could possibly go wrong? As it happens, [joekutz] really didn’t ...