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Article: Here We Go AGAIN?(Numerical control)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Modern Machine Shop
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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"(It has) started a revolution in manufacturing technology. It has stirred passions, been enthusiastically acclaimed and vociferously condemned. Societies have been formed to study and promote it, and endless books and articles have been written about it. The results are felt from the president's office to the shipping dock. There is no longer a question of whether or not (it) is here to stay. The big unknown is how for it will go."
These words about numerical control (NC) were written by Ken Gettelmen (soon to become MODERN MACHINE SHOP'S editor) and published in the pages of MODERN MACHINE SHOP's NC (numerical control) Guidebook back in 1970. Their similarities ...