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Speaking of Precision is a knowledge preservation and thought leadership blog covering the precision machining industry, its materials and services. With over 36 years of hands on experience in steelmaking, manufacturing, quality, and management, Miles Free (Milo) Director of Industry Research and Technology at PMPA helps answer "How?" "With what?" and occasionally "Really?"

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CNC Machining Is The Foundation Of Manufacturing - Peter Zelinski

Posted March 27, 2012 8:30 AM by Milo

Zelinski: "Any product you pick up and touch, it's not too many steps away from a machining process."

Most of the parts in your car engine come from a CNC machine. Medical devices, your kitchen cabinets - CNC machine. Your computer case, your iPhone earbuds - well, no. But the mold that created them - CNC machine.

The growth of these machines represents the biggest change in manufacturing over the last 20 years. The people who run them are factory workers.

But they also have to be computer programmers. And they are in high demand.

Marketplace on American Public Media /National Public Radio Closed with a story on the importance of CNC machining last night.

You can access the podcast and read the full transcript at NPR CNC STORY

Bottom line : Skilled operators of CNC machine tools are in high demand.

High enough demand to make the national financial news on NPR.

Tip of the hat to Peter Zelinski at Modern Machine Shop magazine, for effectively describing and communicating the opportunity of CNC machine technology for our workforce.

Modern Machine Shop is the Flagship publication of Gardner Publications, who co-produce Production Machining Magazine with PMPA.

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Photo credit Dustin Dwyer at MarketPlace

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Re: CNC Machining Is The Foundation Of Manufacturing - Peter Zelinski

03/28/2012 10:46 AM

Interesting...I actually started out as a CNC operator and got so interested in the computer end of it that I went back to school and into the computer industry for 40+ years! Of course the CNC machines back then were all programmed using punched tape!

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Re: CNC Machining Is The Foundation Of Manufacturing - Peter Zelinski

03/28/2012 2:06 PM

I am a C.N.C. Programmer.

I started working with CNC machines in 1985.

I have been a programmer since 1990 and I have never been out of work more than 1 week.

If I was laid off from a job, I would get calls the next day and I have always had to choose which job to take.

It has been a very stable job since I started.

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