Saturday, 9 March 2013


CNC Machines| How it is beneficial for your Industry

There's a corporate axiom: "Innovate or die" and I believe in it. Most of the Small Scale Industries, specially Mold /Die Makers, Automobile Parts Maker, Wood Industries need to be encouraged to use the CNC Machines. Many of them know the merits of the usage but mostly consider this a luxury. So I decided to put together some of the basic advantages and consideration for the companies who wants to implement the tech.

1. Computer numerical control has been able to help companies in terms of definitude. With the need for more complex designs and more complex operations, manually could not confront with the required accuracy that comes with advancement. CNC machines were able to alter that idea by allowing increased precision and lesser error ratios with regards to production. CNC can also be labeled with the accurateness. The dimensions of components have to be very accurate. By increase demand of automobile products, Molds and other applications demands to speed up production process which results in inaccuracy. CNC have helped lower that ratio by the increased level of automation and the error detection capabilities that computers have and save the time, Raw Material and increase The Production.

2. In Speed is the attribute for this new age of industrial war. With CNC technology, the normal production capacity has been increased exponentially. This means that effective and accurate production methods have been developed. Mass production requires more scrutiny for errors and mistakes. However, corrupt can also be corrected. One can re program CNC easily with little knowledge and this means that mistakes do not have as serious an impact as they had before.

3. CNC machines have become very versatile with regards to the tools that they use. They can easily be assigned to different tasks and thus can be very productive. Tools and networks can be switched without compromising the speed of the production. Aside from this, one machine can do more than one task at a time. This exceeds the normal human capacities as it allows more tasks to be accomplished at a faster rate than before. Moreover, when one machine tool breaks down, it can easily be pulled off the grid to prevent it from affecting the whole production cycle.

4. As production is a very complex and repetitive operation, human error ascend as time passes. Furthermore, the ability of a human degrades due to ease in life, psychological and emotional factors. This means that if a person works on the same job for a certain amount of time, the person may eventually get tired. This increases the possibility for the human to commit an error and thus causes a drop in the efficiency rating of that person. A machine, however, does not get tired or bored. A machine does not have any concern at all.

The Success Equation:
Save (Time + Material + Money + Space) + Speed + Good Operator = Huge Profit

Companies will be able to save and earn a huge figure in the long run. While investing in CNC machines is not cheap, maintenance will only cost a fraction of what will be paid to manual laborers.