Productive machining is all about keeping spindles turning and making chips. Time spent touching off tools, adjusting tool length and offsets in the spindle and doing test cuts is time—and money—wasted. That's the value proposition presented by manufacturers of tool presetters, and it's one that, surprisingly, is a bit of a hard sell in some shops.
Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.
Originally published on CTE: 2010-12-15
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/articles/presetting-plus/
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