In the machining industry today, manufacturers have found themselves in a rather tricky position. Increased global competition, reduced staff, returning demand and a major skilled-labor shortage have come together in a perfect storm of contrary drivers, forcing manufacturers to use fewer people and fewer resources to create more products of higher quality than ever before. This classic recipe for dramatic technological innovation is driving machine tool manufacturers to design new, highspeed, multifunction, multi-axis, fully automated machines that promise to drastically increase productivity and fundamentally change the flow of modern plants.
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